I've recently taken up maintainership of the Netlify module for Drupal. This module helps bridge the gap between rebuilds and syncing changes that happen in Drupal to ensure your connected Netlify site correctly reflects that data, which is...
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...
Drupal 10.2 has arrived and ships with several new features, bugfixes, enhancements and quality of life improvements.
One change that might catch you off guard though involves List (text) fields. These fields store key/value pairs of information, designed to present users with a select...
I have seen some chatter lately about folks asking how to access the Solr admin interface over HTTPS instead of HTTP connection in DDEV. Enabling this is a simple change to the docker-compose.solr.yaml file in the .ddev directory.
Thanks to Symfony, Drupal has an incredibly robust routing system. What once used to be a chore in Drupal versions prior to 8 is now a breeze. Creating routes is super simple and parameter upcasting is usually automatic for known entities, like nodes, users,...
Security is a paramount feature of any modern CMS. Drupal has a well defined authentication and RBAC (role based access control) system limiting the scope of what users can or cannot do. Soon we will even have...
It's exciting to see some recent momentum into adopting DDEV as the official local development environment for Drupal, supported by core and contrib community leaders.
We recently spent a few days at Velir overhauling our local Docker development stack for Drupal merging our tool and workflow with DDEV for better project outcomes. DDEV is an amazing fit for modern Drupal development.
A few months back (sorry, its been a minute!) I detailed how you could set up PHPDocumentor to automatically generate documentation for your custom code and modules for Drupal. Another step you can take is automating this...
It was quite a week spent in Pittsburgh earlier this month for Drupalcon! We are beginning to rollout our thoughts and experiences from members of the team who attended, what we saw, and things that piqued our interest!
The image in this post was a picture from the lightning talk I...
