One of my favorite features of Drupal is the user access control experience. Drupal has a robust permission and role (access control list) API that allows for fine-tuned control of what users can and cannot do. Drupal developers end up interacting with Drupal’s access system in one way or another…

Recently I wrote about launching my wife’s web store for her holiday cookie orders. During the launch, I had a little hiccup. The homepage controller has code to display the available published products. When it came time, I published the products, and… the homepage stayed the same. I was confused…

Phil Karlton is quoted as having said, “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” As someone who suffers horribly from the latter, I’m glad Drupal’s caching APIs make the former a breeze. The long short of it is that caching of data improves…

I recently held a live stream where I walked through the continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) of a Drupal project to DigitalOcean’s App Platform and other CI/CD items. App Platform has its quirks, but it’s simple to build an application with various components. …

Drupal’s entity storages have a loadByProperties method to simplify loading entities based on conditions. For configuration entities, these are on their properties. For content entities, these are on their field values. It is a common carry-over from the old days of Drupal 7 with entity_load_multiple and the properties condition argument. …