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Accessibility in a Drupal theme starts in your .html.twig files. Here's a practical guide to learning how to structure templates with semantic HTML5 and BEM class naming.

11 Aug 2026 11:09am GMT

Describe the landing page you need in plain language. A few minutes later, it exists in your Drupal site: production-ready, on brand, and waiting for your review. That is the promise of an AI landing page generator for Drupal, and it is no longer a demo trick. It works, it is reliable enough for enterprise sites, and it changes how marketing and development teams divide their work.

11 Aug 2026 12:00am GMT

Recent audited figures give Drupal's sustainability debate a concrete baseline. The Drupal Association says unrestricted reserves are about $960,000, equal to 2.3 months of operating expenses and below the board's three-month minimum. Its 2025 accounts put Drupal.org and supporting services at about $2.1 million in programme expenses, without a dedicated funding mechanism. The question is no longer whether shared work has a cost, but how those costs become recurring commitments.

The same problem appears across infrastructure, security review, dependency maintenance and contribution. These responsibilities continue after software is adopted and cannot be assumed to exist indefinitely through volunteer capacity, one-off grants, donated services or event revenue. Current proposals differ on the mechanism, but increasingly treat stewardship as capacity that organisations and institutions have to plan and fund.

That makes this week's question narrower than whether Drupal needs stewardship. It is who pays, for what, and on what recurring basis. With voting in the 2026 Drupal Association at-large board election open until 14 August 2026 at 23:59 UTC, those choices are also part of a live governance decision.

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This issue of Editor's Pick was written and curated by Allen Jason.

10 Aug 2026 5:12am GMT

This week, Symfony 7.4.16 and 8.1.4 maintenance versions were released, alongside Symfony UX 3.4.0 and Symfony Polyfill 1.41.0. In addition, we highlighted Twig 4.0's new macro system and first-class sandbox. Finally, we announced that SymfonyLive Germany…

09 Aug 2026 7:46am GMT

Symfony 8.1.4 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…

07 Aug 2026 6:08pm GMT

Symfony 7.4.16 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…

07 Aug 2026 6:03pm GMT

Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.

Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!

On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.

01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT

1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:

1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.

2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.

3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?

4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...

5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!

I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!

01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT

Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...

01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT