At DrupalSouth Melbourne 2025, Naveen Valecha demonstrated how GovCMS personalisation can be achieved through tools like Custom Meta Tags and Convivial Profiler. These approaches help deliver more relevant content and better citizen experiences while maintaining privacy, accessibility, and compliance with Australian Government standards.
Get started with GovCMS
GovCMS is the platform of choice for building, maintaining and hosting government websites in Australia. Designed by government for government, GovCMS provides all the tools required to launch and run secure, modern and accessible websites for the Australian public.
The release of GovCMS for Drupal provides an excellent trigger for a refresh of your site. Many site owners may have been waiting for the new release before commencing a new project. Drupal 10 is now here and plans can be made for new projects on the new platform.
Morpht has developed the Convivial for GovCMS starter site which is 100% up to speed with the latest developments in GovCMS and the Australian Government Design System.
- Ships with latest AGDS theme
- Based on Drupal Layout Builder and Paragraphs, a modern combination for building Drupal sites.
- Editor friendly components.
- Battletested for accessibility, performance, SEO and best practices.
Sites which are currently hosted on GovCMS8 will need to be upgraded to the latest version of Drupal 10.
Morpht has been keeping abreast of the developments in the GovCMS codebase and are in an excellent position to provide advice and help in the upgrade of your site. In many cases the migration will go smoothly, however, in others there will be the need for remediations. Morpht is able to consult and help in this process.
Drupal 7 will be end of life in January 2025. It has been superseded by Drupal 10. If your site is based on GovCMS 7 you will need to start looking to migrating it to Drupal 10 in the near future. This trigger provides an excellent opportunity to assess your current site against your needs and to make improvements in a new build.
Migration will involve the implementation of functionality to support your new site as will as the migration of content from the current one to the new. Morpht is able to provide advice on the best path forward and services to help you complete the migration.
GovCMS Drupal DXP Panel
Morpht was announced as one of the initial suppliers on the GovCMS DXP Panel. We provide a range of Drupal DXP services to Australian government agencies. Content recommendations, personalisation and AI services can now be easily procured through Moprht, offering an on-ramp for agencies to make their sites smarter and more adaptive to user needs.
Content recommendations
Powerful machine learning algorithms are used to make content recommendations to users based on their browsing behaviour. Morphjt has partnered with Recombee SaaS to bring these tools to GovCMS, GovCMS sites can now be their own Netflix or Spotify, adapting content for a better user experience. See the GovFlix POC or read the playbook on content recommendations. This feature is available for GovCMS SaaS and PaaS.
Personalisation
Smart websites try to predict what their users want to do next. What is the next best step at any point in time? The Convivial Profiler personalisation engine is able to keep track of user affinity for content, user intention and current active campaign or stage in user journey. All of these combine to deliver personalised content recommendations to keep the user engaged on the site. See the Convivial for GovCMS site for more details and a demonstration. This feature is available for GovCMS SaaS and PaaS.
AI Augmentation
Generative AI has swept to the fore and is having an impact on content workflows in government agencies. Morpht has partnered with NLP CLoud to provide a range of different AI models for augmenting content, making editor's lives easier. Sites can tap into this service via the Augmentor NLP Cloud module and a subscription available through the DXP Panel. This feature is available for GovCMS PaaS only.
GovCMS Drupal Services Panel
Morpht provides the full range of GovCMS services. Please get in touch with us for a pricing sheet.
New site builds
Out team of UX designers, architects, site builders, themers and project managers are here to work with you to make your new project a success. Morpht is a leading GovCMS supplier and has worked on some of the largest transformational projects on GovCMS.
Support & Maintenance
Morpht provides ongoing support, maintenance and feature development services for all of the clients we build sites for. We believe that it is important for a client to have continuity in the development team as it ensures that internal knowledge is not lost and future features can be developed in a consistent way.
Website Assessments
Morpht offer site assessments to help you understand where your site is currently at and where you might like to go with it. Assessments range from the providing basics ideal for the initial planning phase through to expert advice to address the current challenges of your website, potential solutions/options and provide a rough budget to assist you with the procurement process.
GovCMS resources
The following resources will help you get up to speed and connected with the GoVCMS community.
The GovCMS website is an important resource providing information on the platform and upcoming events. This site was recently rebuilt by Morpht to include extra information on pricing and a gallery of current GovCMS websites..
An advanced starting point for GovCMS projects providing an easy on ramp for to the GovCMS platform. Convivial should be a serious consideration for any agency looking for a modern, clean implementation of the Australian Government Design System in GovCMS.
The open source repository for the GovCMS project. See the GovCMS modules and what is at the foundation of the project.
Insights
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Content developed for Australian government websites needs to be inclusive and accessible. Inclusivity includes “literacy” as one of the areas of consideration.
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This blog post provides a step-by-step guide to integrating a dynamic color palette feature into a theme in Drupal. It explores how CSS Variables enable seamless customization, enhance accessibility, and provide a no-code solution for site builders.
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The Convivial for GovCMS (Bootstrap) site accelerator has received a large update incorporating many new DXP features and other improvements and fixes.
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David Flores-Condezo presented insights from various government agencies, highlighting how they tackled common but complex GovCMS requirements at the DrupalSouth Community Day, held in Canberra on Thursday 14 November 2024.
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GovFlix is a website showcasing video content for government and web development. A “behind the scenes” presentation was recently given at DrupalSouth Community Day 2024.
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A guide that covers several options for how users can receive site updates from a GovCMS SaaS website.
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A guide to a creative solution for setting up editor notifications on GovCMS SaaS.
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