As part of The DropTimes' "Meet the Candidate" campaign for the ongoing Drupal Association Board Elections, Kevin Quillen, Practice Lead at Velir, shares his vision for making Drupal more accessible and appealing worldwide. With over 16 years of experience in the community, Kevin discusses his plans to modernize Drupal.org, attract…
Simon Morvan discusses EvolvingWeb, Drupal development, and CKEditor 5 migration at DrupalCon Portland 2024.
As a business with an online presence, you’ll almost definitely have, at least one of, a SaaS application, a blog, an online store, product documentation, or anything table stakes such as these. And, you’ll have some important business/marketing goals like a product signup, upgrade to subscription, newsletter signup, etc. which…
What’s Cooking with the Events Recipe for Drupal CMS When I first heard the vision for Starshot (now Drupal CMS), I knew exactly how I wanted to contribute. For years I have been working on trying to make it easier to quickly build Drupal sites following established best practices. I…
Setting up WordPress with Docker is a powerful way to streamline your web development process. Docker allows you to create isolated environments, ensuring that your WordPress site runs consistently across different systems. Whether you're a developer looking to standardize your workflow or a beginner eager to explore WordPress, using Docker…
<p>Dear Readers,<br><br><a href="https://www.thedroptimes.com/42282/drupal-starshot-initiative-now-officially-drupal-cms">The official naming of "Drupal CMS" marks a significant step in the evolution of the product initially developed under the Drupal Starshot Initiative</a>. The name was chosen for its clarity and simplicity, with "CMS" explicitly conveying the product's core function as a content management system. This approach addresses…
Drupal is shifting from a developer-centric framework to a product-oriented platform with the Starshot initiative, aimed at simplifying the site building experience for smaller organizations through Low Code/No Code tools and automatic updates.
The Batch API is a powerful feature in Drupal that allows complex or time consuming tasks to be split into smaller parts.For example, let's say you wanted to run a function that would go through every page on you Drupal site and perform an action. This might be removing specific…
If you have read my posts about responsive images you will know I have done quite a bit of work with Drupal media and in particular, images. However, I recently ran into an issue I had not experienced before and it was quite challenging to comprehend. The issue was related…
Building a custom Drupal theme nowadays is a more complex process than it used to be. Most themes require some kind of build tool such as Gulp, Grunt, Webpack or others to automate many of the repeatitive tasks we perform when working on the front-end. Tasks like compiling and minifying…