My LocalGov Drupal contributions for March 2026

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Author: Mark Conroy
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Having spent last month working on the new design for the demo theme, I decided to do something similar and focus on a project for March. This month I worked on LocalGov Services.

  1. The new design for LocalGov Scarfolk that I worked on last month got some reviews and suggestions. Hopefully that's ready for the lime light now.
  2. When you are on a Service Landing Page or a Service Sub-Landing Page, you have no control over how many items per row there are for child pages. In Service Landing Page it's 3, in Service Sub-Landing Page it's 2. We now have a theme setting so you can choose any amount between 1 and 4. The latest GOV.UK design suggests it should be one, so this allows us to configure to that suggestion.
  3. Cache tags were not working/not set for the Content Access by Path module. Thanks to Kevin for an MR for this, and a small few extras from me. We now have a 1.1.3 release for the module.
  4. I fixed a few coding standards issues in LocalGov Base.
  5. One task I really enjoy is removing jQuery form our codebase and just using vanilla JavaScript. I now have that complete for LocalGov Events.
  6. I had a great chat with Will, Finn, and Tony about the "Child items" section on Service Landing Pages and how we can't link to external pages. I think we have a decision on how to re-work that, and I'm ready to get started on it.
  7. I got working on the external links for Service Landing Pages issue, but it, naturally, threw up another issue - I need to work across at least 4 repos to get it fixed:
    1. Add external links from Service Landing Pages
    2. Add support for new "Children" field for Services Landing Page
    3. Check the new localgov_children field works with Scarfolk
    4. Create a new paragraph type for the localgov_children field
  8. We got the new design for the LocalGov Scarfolk theme released, so now I have a merge request to set it as the default LocalGov Drupal theme.

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