Planet Drupal

Explore the evolution of Lyubomir Filipov's career from his initial encounter with Drupal to his current role as a Group Architect at FFW Agency, delving into his strategies for team management, overcoming multilingual challenges, community involvement, and the intersection of artificial intelligence with the digital field. Filipov's diverse experiences reflect a multifaceted professional journey, offering insights into Drupal, community engagement, academic pursuits, and the future landscape of digital expertise.

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With over 40 sessions submitted to date, we have a couple of days left for you to get your ideas in for MidCamp 2024!

We’re open to talks for all levels of Drupal users, from beginner through advanced, as well as end users and business owners.

See our session tracks page for a full description of the kinds of talks we are looking for.  If you’re new to speaking, check out the recording of our Speaker Workshop for ideas.

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• Proposal Deadline: January 7 (Sunday), 2024 at midnight CST
• Tickets on sale: very soon!
• Early-bird deadline and speakers announced:  February (all speakers are eligible for a free ticket, and anyone who submits a session that is not accepted will be eligible for early-bird pricing even after it closes)
• MidCamp 2024: March 20-22

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Drupal is an open-source content management system (CMS) that has gained significant popularity for its ability to power some of the most prominent and frequently visited websites globally. With a vast developer community of 1.4 million strong, contributing over 50,000 free modules, Drupal offers unparalleled flexibility and power, making it our preferred CMS choice for […]

How to Leverage Drupal's Layout Builder to Create Complex Pages Editor Fri, 01/05/2024 - 15:42

Sometimes, creating a modern design with high functionality is problematic. Especially when it comes to large-scale and complex projects. There are various solutions to make the process of creating layouts easier and more convenient. One of the most influential and popular is Drupal Layout Builder.

In the dynamic world of academia, managing academic visitor applications efficiently is crucial. The University of Oxford Mathematical Institute has embraced the power of Drupal  and the Maestro module to streamline and enhance their academic visitor application process. Let's delve into the seamless workflow that facilitates this crucial task.

 

The General Design

Initiation: Academics or their assistants initiate the process by filling in a comprehensive multi-page webform tailored to their needs.

Confirmation and Workflow Trigger: Upon submission, a confirmation email is sent to the initiator by the webform email handler, and the workflow is triggered.

Authored by: Nadiia Nykolaichuk.

Since Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1963, it has become a popular device that many people use for browsing the Internet today. However, there are still a great number of people who cannot afford the comfort of using a mouse. A wide range of temporary or permanent impairments make them rely on keyboard-only navigation.

I use GitHub to host my repositories, such as this website. To keep my dependencies up-to-date, I leverage Dependabot. The product has matured a lot over the past few years. Before, it was a standalone service and then acquired by GitHub. It did not support dependencies managed by Composer. It was pretty spammy and very noisy. However, it has drastically improved over the past few years. Thanks to all of those at GitHub who have worked to improve it (that includes you, Mike Crittenden.)

My Dependabot configuration consists of a few items, nothing overly specific.

I finally took a look at writing a custom live template with PhpStorm. I've used them several times to automate scaffolding a foreach statement or other random suggestions that a Tab keypress leads to automated scaffolded code. But I never really dove in to see how they work or could be customized. Then, I had to fix some of my code to comply with Drupal's coding standards.

Drupal requires document comments for all methods, including a short comment. 

In Drupal, with themes, you can override default template output by copying, pasting, and customizing those templates. It works, but how? I thought I always knew how this worked. But I realized I didn't when I dove into supporting Drupal 7 themes with Retrofit.

I know Drupal builds the theme registry and theme hook suggestions. In doing so, it scans templates, and part of that process includes scanning the active theme for template and theme hook template implementations. But when reading the \Drupal\Core\Theme\Registry code, I was coming up blank.

The final countdown to the Drupal 7 end-of-life has begun ticking after receiving its final extension. Why is upgrading from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 so daunting? Three problems must be faced when upgrading from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10:

Drupal is a cutting-edge and versatile content management system regarded as an incredible solution for a diverse range of web development projects. However, building a Drupal project that aligns with your business goals and produces the desired results can be quite challenging. To effortlessly navigate through all the complexities, it is best to hire proficient Drupal web developers who know how to unleash the true power of the CMS.

As a product of their rigorous training and vast experience, Drupal experts are well versed in the do’s and don’ts to tap into the unfathomable potential of the CMS. This implies that they can certainly take your business on an upward growth spiral with Drupal. Now, let’s delve into some more incredible benefits of hiring experienced Drupal developers.

As we step into 2024, it's time to reflect on a remarkable year at The DropTimes. In 2023, the content we published is studly increasing. With over 70 interviews,  3,000 articles, coverage of 462 events, and more than 1,000 job opportunities, we've made significant strides since our inception. Our Editor's Pick weekly newsletter, reached 50 weeks of curated content.

Takeaway: Drupal’s comprehensive approach to multilingual features has made it a go-to solution for inclusive, global digital platforms. Both Marco Angles and I have worked on Lenovo, with me focusing on content management and Marco focusing on development. Collaborating on multilingual projects, we both have witnessed the seamless integration of Drupal's capabilities in managing diverse languages.

The Web Is Still in Beta Michael J. Ross 2024-01-04

Back in the early 1990s, when the World Wide Web was being discovered by the worldwide computer users — at least those with Internet connections — new websites were being crafted and made public at a rapid pace that accelerated as a growing number of creative or just plain curious people taught themselves how to format text and images using simple HTML. Only later did Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allow for a much cleaner separation between content and its layout and other visual styling.

At that time, most websites — including those of major corporations — suffered from a clunky appearance that, by today's standards, would be judged as rather primitive or at least unpolished. This was much more pronounced in sites created by overenthusiastic amateurs who couldn't resist spicing up their web pages with jarringly bright colors, annoying auto-playing music tracks, and an assortment of groan-inducing images, such as animated mailboxes, spinning envelopes, or any of the other aesthetic sins characteristic of the personal web pages that composed GeoCities. Even the most staid websites would use various "under construction" images to indicate that a particular page or entire section of the site was still under development.

While few Internet users today would lament the passing of the more garish GIFs and other appalling web page decorations, it is notable that we almost never see the relatively conservative digital construction signs anymore, or even text notifications that a page is unfinished . And what about the web applications, such as Google Maps, that would remain for years in a state of "beta" — which presumably means the app is unfinished and has not reached the stage of an initial release, version 1.0 — and yet is being used by millions of people? Nowadays, simple sites and rudimentary web apps will be published with no mention of being in beta or under construction. Why is that?

Is it because all websites are now operationally and aesthetically flawless and all web apps are performing wonderfully, with no need for future planned updates? Clearly not. Instead, it is probably due to a combination of factors, including the following:

• The state of web flux is now a given. Most if not all of us, especially web designers and developers, learned long ago that the sites and apps that we create will be called upon to meet ever-changing needs, whether necessitated by paying customers, demanding project managers, or just our own evolving sense of what we want the software to do and how it can look even better than before. The functionality and thus complexity of our present-day sites and apps are multiples of what was deemed acceptable three decades earlier — to say nothing of the ever-increasing security vulnerabilities and needed countermeasures. Any expectations of reaching a final state of perfection are simply unrealistic.
• These days it is easier than ever to build a new website or web app, using a wide range of tools, including tried-and-tested web frameworks, content management systems (such as WordPress and Drupal), and third-party services to do much of the heavy lifting. Through the use of prepackaged themes, products built with a modest or even no budget can be quickly given an attractive look and feel.

The Web is unfinished, and that's a good thing.

Copyright © 2024 Michael J. Ross. All rights reserved.

Explore the nuanced discussions within the Drupal community as users and developers grapple with the CMS's complexities, AI integration, and its future amidst the rise of alternatives. Insights from seasoned professionals shed light on Drupal's strengths, challenges, and role in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Last week I wrote up a walkthrough in dealing with a change introduced for List field validation in Drupal 10.2 using a stored procedure to rewrite existing data. After some discussion, this change has been reverted in an upcoming patch release for Drupal 10.2:Regression from #2521800: using machine name element for ListStringItem breaks with existing data

Over the past 12 months, our teams have completed numerous Drupal upgrades. We would like to share our experiences and knowledge with anyone who has yet to undergo this process to help make it smoother for you.