The Drupal Association has been working on a monumental effort to migrate away from our bespoke DrupalCI continuous integration system to GitLab CI as part of the GitLab Acceleration Initiative. Drupal core’s test runs are five times faster using GitLab CI. I have loosely followed the progress as Drupal moves…

Last week, there was a trending hot take on social media: why bother with HTTP methods beyond GET and POST in your API? The argument was that URLs are cheap, so why not create more API URLs rather than using the same URL with different HTTP methods? It was a…

Retrofit for Drupal now has documentation to explain what Drupal 7 hooks and APIs are supported. Retrofit for Drupal provides backward compatibility layers to run legacy Drupal 7 code in your sites using Drupal 10 and beyond. The problem, however, is anyone evaluating Retrofit for Drupal has had to take…

One of the major problems observed in getting contributed modules Drupal 10 compatible was maintaining support for Drupal 9.5, which remains in security support (or remained if it is now past November 1, 2023.) Contributed modules should be compatible with all security-supported versions of Drupal core or more if they…

I just finished reading Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development published by Packt Publishing by Luca Lusso. Don’t let the title make you think it is about theme development. The book provides excellent coverage of general Drupal knowledge, so much so that I highly recommend this book as a go-to resource…

Last week, I drove up to Minneapolis and attended Twin Cities DrupalCamp. I have only made it to the conference once before, way back in 2016, to present about the beginnings of Drupal Commerce 2.x. This is the first time Twin Cities DrupalCamp has been held at the end-of-summer/beginning-of-fall period…

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…

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…

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: Migrating existing site configuration, content models, and content to its…