Welcome to this week's Symfony Station communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse.
This is a release candidate for the next minor (feature) release of Drupal 10. Release candidates are not supported for production sites, but they are intended for widespread testing in preparation for the upcoming stable release. More information on release candidates. This minor release provides improvements and new...
Welcome to this week's Symfony Station newsletter. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse.
With Drupal’s upgrade to CKEditor 5, users can now add their own attributes or styles to the media toolbar using the new DrupalElementStyle plugin via YAML definitions …without writing a single line of JavaScript!
ChatGPT, one of the most well-known innovations by OpenAI, captivated the world’s attention from the first day of its release. It can have human-like conversations and assist people with various tasks from generating content ideas or drafting business plans to writing code.
It’s time to transform and improve the Layout Builder UI experience. What if we could rewrite it using React? Check out our video pitch (made using React), which received the highest average rank in the Pitch-burgh contest at DrupalCon!
I have had an idea for a few years. It is the greatest yet worst idea I’ve had for four years. Some 400,000 Drupal 7 sites report to Drupal.org through the Update module. Drupal 7's end-of-life is coming on November 1, 2023, and has been a continual topic of discussion.
Welcome to this week's Symfony Station communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse.
The banner component is an essential element in effectively conveying an organization's brand and culture on a website -- within a framework for design flexibility. There’s a lot riding on getting it right.
Last week I wrote about dependency injection anti-patterns in Drupal. These anti-patterns occur when your service's constructor has logic that interacts with the injected dependent services beyond assigning them to properties. These anti-patterns include creating a new object from a factory or retrieving an object from a stack....
Adding dynamic and interactive elements to a web page can be a challenge, and there are a few techniques available in Drupal to allow for this. One solution might be to add a form to the page, but this can cause problems with the cache system. Adding forms actually makes it slightly difficult to cache the page properly and you...
WordPress is celebrating its 20th anniversary tomorrow and recently its co-founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, joined Drupal founder Dries Buytaert together on stage at a private event for th…
Better code makes a better web! If you're ready to build a better web with Drupal, check out this article and learn how you can comply with Drupal coding standards with the help of Git Hooks.
Whenever I have done an audit for a Drupal codebase, one of the first things I manually review and profile is dependency injection anti-patterns in custom code and any contributed modules used. The anti-pattern isn't for accessing services statically through \Drupal: service. These anti-patterns live within the class's...
Faster page load speeds can increase your organic rankings and improve customer satisfaction and gain revenue. Here are a few tips to speed up your site.
Unlock the potential of Figma website designs by seamlessly integrating with WordPress (Figmafy) and Drupal (CivicTheme) to create fully operational websites.
This is a follow-on to our article, How Symfony components power Drupal’s drive to new frontiers. It looks at the nuts and bolts of four of the Symfony components/libraries Drupal uses, plus the Twig templating engine.
Welcome to this week's Symfony Station Communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse.
New to Drupal 10.1 (coming this June) is a group of settings that will make Drupal front-enders' lives a lot easier (especially newbies). We can now control Twig caching (and disable render, and page caches) from the UI!
The history of working to implement automated accessibility checks for Core goes back to 2017, shortly after a few open source accessibility tools were released. Deque’s axe-core had been released two years earlier, and it was starting to get embedded in a variety of other systems.