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Drupal's Starshot initiative and its impact on my contributions… aligning the Webform module with Drupal CMS

My next two blog posts will examine my work on the Webform and Schema.org Blueprints modules regarding Drupal's Starshot initiative and its impact on my contribution to the community. The first post discusses how the Webform module aligns with Drupal CMS, and the second post will discuss how the Schema.org Blueprints module is adjacent to Drupal CMS.

Drupal Starshot

The Drupal Starshot initiative resulted in the creation of Drupal CMS.

In other words, Drupal CMS recommends contributed modules that solve standard requirements and challenges that Drupal Core does not immediately address. For example, the SmartDate module will be used within the Events Recipe instead of Drupal core's Date module.

The Contact form initiative includes the Webform module, which I rebuilt for Drupal 8 and have maintained for several years. Being part of the Drupal CMS ecosystem is an honor and responsibility, which comes at a time when my maintenance of the Webform module is waning.

Webform maintainership

At the end of the year, I think about the current and future state of the Webform module and my contributions to the Drupal community. My contribution milestones fall on Christmas Eve when I wrap up and tag releases for open-source projects that I have been tinkering with during the Fall. For example, the YAML Form...Read More

04 Feb 2025 4:20pm GMT

Part 2 of Graham Leach's three-part series analyzing Drupal installation trends through statistical models. This segment explores why adoption patterns diverge from ideal innovation curves, applying the S-Curve Model, Rogers' Innovation-Adoption Curve, and the Law of Large Numbers to provide insights into Drupal's historical and current adoption trends.

04 Feb 2025 11:30am GMT

Drupal Mountain Camp 2025 Schedule is live admin Tue, 02/04/2025 - 12:07

The schedule for MountainCamp 2025 is now live. Our track team has carefully selected sessions that are aligned with the camp's theme, ensuring a mix of quality, relevance, and inclusivity.

Keynote Speakers:

• Cristina Chumillas
• Lauri Timmanee
• Olga Baranova
• Vera Herzmann

Featured Sessions Presented By:

• Alex Moreno
• David Höck and Michael Bromley
• Frederick Wouters
• Imre Gmelig Meijling
• Michelle Sanver
• Mikko Hämäläinen
• Sascha Eggenberger

MountainCamp 2025 will be held in Davos, Switzerland from March 11th to 13th, offering excellent opportunities for learning, networking, and fun.

Buy your tickets now!

Please note that session times and speakers are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances. We recommend checking the schedule periodically for updates.

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04 Feb 2025 11:07am GMT

Is your Drupal site running slow? Discover how XHProf profiling can help you pinpoint performance bottlenecks, optimize your code, and speed up your website.

04 Feb 2025 7:15am GMT

03 Feb 2025 8:29pm GMT

03 Feb 2025 7:38pm GMT

Today we are talking about Single Directory Components, How best to work with them, and their future with Drupal with guest Brian Perry. We'll also cover Embedded Content as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/487

Topics

• What are Single Directory Components (SDC)
• Why the switch to SDCs
• What is there in common between decoupled and SDCs
• Can you give us an overview of your workflow
• Common pitfalls
• How should someone get started working with SDCs
• Does it work with Paragraphs and Blocks?
• Does it need to be all at once
• How do you think SDCs will evolve
• Do you see this leading to more Decoupled front ends
• What contrib modules make working with SDCs easier

Resources

• My Single Directory Components Workflow
• Pico CSS
• Open Props
• Twig Tweak
• No Markup
• SDC Styleguide
• Radix Theme
• SDC Block
• UI Patterns 2.x
• Astro
• TAC

Guests

Brian Perry - brianperry.dev brianperry

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Weston - scott-weston

MOTW Correspondent

Jacob Rockowitz - jrockowitz.com jrockowitz

• Embedded Content
• Brief description:
  • The Embedded Content module allows site builders to select, create, and update content embedded within HTML inside CKEditor.
  • For developers, the EmbeddedContent plugin is like a Block plugin without context.
  • There is a demo on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOn-P3Q5Gg
  • There is support embedding of single directory component in progress. Conceptually, this is already possible, the same way one would render a single directory component in Block plugin.
• Brief history
  • The concept and code started as the CKEditor5 Embedded Content module, created in August 2022.
  • In October 2023, CKEditor5 Embedded Content was renamed to Embedded Content.
• Versions available:
  • 2.0.3 - January 22nd, 2025
  • Works with Drupal: ^9 ^10 ^11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained? yes
  • Security coverage? Yes
  • Test coverage? Yes
  • Documentation? Video and an example module
• Number of open issues:
  • All issues: 6 open, 17 total
  • Bug report: 6 open, 15 total
• Usage stats:
  • 509 sites report using this module
  • 1,263 sites report using this module (using old version)
• Maintainer(s):
  • Teun van Veggel (nuez)
  • https://www.drupal.org/u/nuez
• Module features and usage
  • Insert themed content in Ckeditor5 using Drupal plugins without having to write rich HTML and CSS
  • Render these results directly in the CKEditor
  • Create 'inline' embedded content that sits inline with the text, like footnotes.
  • Provides
  • Embedded Content plugin
  • CKeditor 5 plugin.
  • Ecosystem
  • Embedded Content: Examples for examples of how to build your own plugins.
  • Embedded Content: Entity for embedding content entities
  • Embedded Content: SDC for single directory components (under development)
  • Potential Challenges
  • Example of the embedded content tag.
  • Translations via TMS (data is serialized via an attribute)

03 Feb 2025 7:00pm GMT

January 2025 was a month of celebration, innovation, and community for Drupal. The successful launch of Drupal CMS brought together a large number of Drupal enthusiasts from around the world, infusing the community with a renewed spirit. This excitement has sparked conversations about the future of Drupal and the efforts behind its continuous evolution. In this spirit, The Drop Times recently published an exclusive interview with James Abrahams, AI Track Lead for Drupal CMS, where he candidly discussed behind-the-scenes developments that led to this milestone.

Last month also brought exciting announcements about upcoming events. Florida DrupalCamp is set for February 21-23, followed by highly anticipated events like Drupal Mountain Camp and DrupalCon Atlanta in March. Reflecting on this busy calendar, I'm reminded of a blog post by Ales Kohek on Agiledrop: "Why the Drupal Community Deserves (and Needs) Well-Attended Events." The author highlights the long-term benefits of such gatherings-stronger networking, larger-scale idea generation, and an overall boost to the community's collaborative spirit. For an open-source software like Drupal, these events are crucial in preserving our sense of belonging and shared purpose.

At The Drop Times, we remain dedicated to bringing you the latest updates on Drupal events happening across the globe. Our team actively tracks event announcements, provides coverage on key discussions, and ensures that community members stay informed. Whether it's interviews with speakers, event recaps, or highlighting major takeaways, we strive to be your go-to source for all things Drupal. As community members, you can also reach out to us with information about local events in your area. Let's build on the energy sparked by the Drupal CMS launch and make this year's events even more impactful.

Stay tuned to The Drop Times!

Interview

Drupal: Power, Flexibility, Freedom, and Now Smarter with AI

Discover Drupal

• Making Drupal CMS Truly User-centered
• Drupal Public Data, Statistics & Silver Linings? An Exploration
• Ivan Zugec Devises Three Methods to Build a Search Page in Drupal
• D7Security Expands Membership and Calls for Community Support in D7 Maintenance

Events

• Austin Drupal Meetup Returns in February for Community Collaboration
• Acquia Engage Awards 2025: Submit Nominations Before February 7
• Drupal Pune Meetup: Community Collaboration and Insights on February 8
• Plan Your Journey to DrupalCon Atlanta 2025: Everything You Need to Know
• Florida DrupalCamp 2025: 5 Must-Attend Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss
• Nominations Open for DrupalSouth 2025 Community Recognition Awards

Organization News

• Drupal CMS: Celebrating The New Era of Content Management System at Innoraft
• Dropsolid Extends Support for Drupal 7 Beyond End-of-Life
• Acquia Introduces AI-Powered Search Solution with SearchStax

Training

Master Drupal 10 Certification with Debug Academy's Front End Specialist Training

Tutorials

Step-by-Step OpenAI Module Setup for Drupal 10

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Thomas Alias K.,
Sub-editor, TDT

03 Feb 2025 3:56pm GMT

Exove, Piwik PRO, and Cookie Information have partnered to strengthen Drupal's privacy compliance and analytics capabilities. Their collaboration delivers seamless integrations, ongoing support, and privacy-first solutions, ensuring Drupal users benefit from enhanced consent management and data insights. With dedicated development and continuous updates, these integrations keep pace with Drupal's evolution, offering a reliable and future-proof experience.

03 Feb 2025 3:22pm GMT

Who can add, edit, and delete content on your website? How do you make the "price" field accessible to distributors rather than regular users? In this blog post, I'll explain in detail how roles and permissions work in Drupal, what capabilities they offer, and how you can customize them for your website. I invite you to read the article or watch an episode of the "Nowoczesny Drupal" series.

03 Feb 2025 8:55am GMT

In the above video, we'll explore how to use Bootstrap for Drupal CMS.

If you're looking for easier site-building and front-end theming, Bootstrap is a great tool.

We'll cover everything from setting up your themes to using Bootstrap within Drupal's Layout Builder and Views.

Bootstrap in Drupal

Bootstrap is well-supported within the Drupal community. It offers numerous modules and themes, as well as many pre-built components that help developers create attractive, responsive sites quickly.

We'll specifically look at two themes: Bootstrap5 and Radix. We will also explore how to integrate Bootstrap with Drupal's Layout Builder using Bootstrap Layout Builder and how to use Bootstrap grids within Drupal Views.

02 Feb 2025 8:09pm GMT

Innoraft celebrated the launch of Drupal CMS 1.0 with a week-long event featuring expert sessions, hands-on demos, and community contributions. Highlights included discussions on Drupal's evolution, AI integration, ReactJS synergy, and Single Directory Components. The event concluded with the release of the Views Advanced Date Filter Module and a lively celebration with the global Drupal community.

02 Feb 2025 3:50pm GMT

I've been slowly chipping away at a side project that includes a set of related Drupal Recipes. Given the repeatable nature of recipes, I apply them after a clean install frequently, and have a shell script that automates this process.

After some recent changes I found that one of my recipes was not applying cleanly. In an effort to debug, I ran the drush recipe command with the -v flag to get verbose output. Debugging aside, I found the output to be really useful.

Here's what I'd see when applying the sanctuary_graphql recipe without the verbose flag:

ddev drush recipe recipes/sanctuary_graphql
12/25 [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░]
Installed Simple OAuth & OpenID Connect module.
25/25 [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓]
Applied Sanctuary GraphQL recipe.

 [OK] Sanctuary GraphQL applied successfully

and this is the output with the -v flag:

ddev drush recipe recipes/sanctuary_graphql -v
 [info] Drush bootstrap phase: bootstrapDrupalRoot()
 [info] Change working directory to /var/www/html/web
 [info] Initialized Drupal 10.4.1 root directory at /var/www/html/web
 [info] Drush bootstrap phase: bootstrapDrupalSite()
 [info] Initialized Drupal site sanctuary.ddev.site at sites/default
 [info] Drush bootstrap phase: bootstrapDrupalConfiguration()
 [info] Drush bootstrap phase: bootstrapDrupalDatabase()
 [info] Successfully connected to the Drupal database.
 [info] Drush bootstrap phase: bootstrapDrupalFull()
 0/25 [░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░]
Applying recipe
 [info] decoupled_preview_iframe module installed.
 3/25 [▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░]
Installed Config Pages module.
 5/25 [▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░]
Installed Paragraphs module.
 [info] paragraphs_edit module installed.
 8/25 [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░]
Installed Sanctuary module.
10/25 [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░]
Installed Iconify Icons module.
 [info] menu_item_extras module installed.
 [info] simple_oauth module installed.
13/25 [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░]
15/25 [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░]
Installed Typed Data module.
 [info] graphql module installed.
18/25 [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░]
Installed Sanctuary GraphQL module.
20/25 [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░]
Installed GraphQL Compose: Routes module.
 [info] graphql_compose_menus module installed.
25/25 [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓]
Applied Sanctuary GraphQL recipe.

Modules installed
-----------------

 * Config Pages
 * Consumers
 * Decoupled Preview Iframe
 * Entity Reference Revisions
 * Frontend Editing
 * GraphQL
 * GraphQL Compose
 * GraphQL Compose: Edges
 * GraphQL Compose: Menus
 * GraphQL Compose: Preview
 * GraphQL Compose: Routes
 * Iconify Icons
 * Menu Item Extras
 * Paragraphs
 * Paragraphs Edit
 * Sanctuary
 * Sanctuary GraphQL
 * Serialization
 * Simple OAuth & OpenID Connect
 * Token
 * Typed Data

Recipes applied
---------------

 * Sanctuary Core
 * Sanctuary GraphQL


 [OK] Sanctuary GraphQL applied successfully

This is verbose (as advertised) but pretty essential information, especially if you're applying a recipe for the first time. Without -v all we really know is that the recipe was applied successfully. With -v we get a list of all of the modules installed, and also see that another recipe was applied as a dependency.

I'd often find myself either reviewing the source code of a recipe, or skimming the module page in the admin UI to understand what was actually included. This verbose output is a much quicker way to get that info.

From what I can tell, -v and -vv provide the same output. -vvv is more verbose, but I haven't found the extra info super useful as of yet. None of these options seem to provide debug output for config actions, which is the only thing I could see as a useful addition.

I realize that 'try running it with debug output' is hardly a groundbreaking tip, but in the case of recipes this additional info is really handy. Going forward, I'll be using -v by default when applying new recipes so that I can get a better sense of what's being added to my site.

02 Feb 2025 12:00am GMT

Adding power to your shell - my home manager configuration

Feb 01, 2025 By John Locke

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At Freelock, we're starting to use Nix to manage different PHP environments, and be able to incrementally update websites.

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01 Feb 2025 11:00pm GMT

Drupal 11.1 Adds Hooks as Classes: A History, How-To, and Tutorials We've Updated

joe Fri, 01/31/2025 - 18:25

01 Feb 2025 12:25am GMT

James Abrahams, Director at FreelyGive Ltd, discusses the evolution of AI in Drupal, the development of the Drupal AI module, and the challenges of scaling open-source innovations. He shares insights on his collaboration with Marcus Johansson and Kevin Quillen, the impact of AI abstraction layers, and how AI is transforming site-building for non-developers. Abrahams also reflects on productivity, leadership, and the future of AI-driven automation in content management.

31 Jan 2025 2:05pm GMT