As the impending end of life for Drupal 7 draws near, the necessity for website owners to consider their migration options becomes increasingly urgent. While the prevailing trend in the Drupal community leans towards transitioning to Drupal 10 to leverage its modern features, some are hesitant due to the associated costs....
At his recent State of Drupal keynote presentation at DrupalCon Portland 2024, Drupal founder & project lead Dries Buytaert announced a new direction for the CMS which heavily prioritizes an out of the box user-friendly experience – Drupal Starshot....
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. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. We also cover the cybersecurity...
Drupal websites sometimes have a need to implement more advanced sorting logic than what's available out of the box. One of our career-changing Drupal training course alumni asked me how to handle this today. After answering them, I decided to copy the answer into a blogpost.
This is part 4 of a series of articles that defines our approach to frontend performance optimization. In this part we squeeze more performance out through delivery optimization.
Whether it comes to e-commerce stores, blogs, or standard landing pages, using web forms for Drupal 10 is a traditional practice for many. Their purpose is to add more functionality to your system — you will need a separate form to let end users register on your platform, delete accounts, add data, and much more. Your task is...
Discover how Drupal Starshot is changing the way developers create and manage websites. Explore the implications of this new initiative for developers and businesses using Drupal.
Well, we did it; we’ve reached the last day of DrupalCon Portland 2024. Today was a specialty content day with something for all conference attendees. Largely it was a day of industry summits and training.
Authored by Nadiia Nykolaichuk and Bryan Sharpe. Smart approaches and tools are shaping the future of content management and website administration, leaving behind the days of tedious manual work. With a click of a button, you can instantly make consistent changes to multiple pages, almost as if wielding a magical wand.
By default, the Drupal 7 to 10 upgrade path preserves entity IDs. In the previous article, we explained that this would cause problems if content or configuration already exists in the destination Drupal 10 site. Let’s explore this further and evaluate ways to work around the issue.
Last week, I attended DrupalCon Portland 2024, and, like many others, I was swept up in the excitement of the Starshot announcement. The PreviousNext team is ready to support this initiative, focusing our efforts on the Experience Builder project for maximum impact.
The Backdrop community is proud to announce the release of version 1.28 of Backdrop CMS! As part of our commitment to deliver the most usable product, "minor" releases come out three times a year, on a regular schedule. This allows site maintainers to know when to expect updates, and they can plan accordingly. (See...
Drupal Starshot is a new packaged and pre-configured version of Drupal that was announced at DrupalCon Portland. It is not a separate fork or rewrite of Drupal. Drupal Starshot takes advantage of the new Recipes feature introduced in Drupal versions 10.3 and 11. Recipes allow installing Drupal with a complete, ready-to-use...
Kristiaan Van den Eynde, Senior Drupal Developer at Factorial, has made substantial contributions to Drupal, including the widely-used Group module and VariationCache. His project, Policy-Based Access in Core, introduced a dynamic system for managing permissions based on predefined policies. This initiative, set to debut in...
Building multilingual websites is easy and out-of-the-box with Drupal. Learn more about the different Drupal translation modules that enable multilingual functionality on your website.