Add a basic but usable install profile for building a site from scratch

Created on 17 July 2020, about 5 years ago
Updated 1 July 2025, about 2 months ago

What is the problem to solve?

None of the install profiles that come with Drupal core give a good starting point for a developer/site builder building a new site.

The 'minimal' install profile is no good if you want to build a site, because it gives you *nothing*. For instance, if you install a site with 'minimal', you have none of the blocks you need for a functional admin UI: no tabs, no messages, no site help. This is really because 'minimal' is aimed at being used in tests, where it's good that a minimum of structure is created.

But the 'standard' install profile gives you too much: if you install a site with 'standard', you then have to delete the tags vocabulary, the node types and their fields (which is laborious because there are comment and term reference fields that require several steps to delete them), uninstall comment, search, and so on.

Who is this for?

Site builders and developers.

Result: what will be the outcome?

A new site profile whose level of set up structure is between 'minimal' and 'standard'. It should create the Drupal admin UI but not make any assumptions about the site structure.

How can we know the desired result is achieved?

Assuming Update module reports back which site profile a site is using, we'll see in the data that the new site profile is being used.

✨ Feature request
Status

Active

Version

11.0 πŸ”₯

Component

other

Created by

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§United Kingdom joachim

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