Today we are talking about Violinist.io, Managing Composer Dependencies, and automation with guest Eirik Morland. We’ll also cover Composer Patches as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/443
Topics

• What is Violinist.io
• How does it work
• How much technical knowledge do you need
• Is this a security risk
• How much does it cost
• Patron question: Peter: Difference between violinist and dependabot
• What are the major differences in plans
• Who is the ideal user
• Can you self host
• Can this help with Drupal 11 readiness
• Complementary tools
• Notable users
• Why did you start this
• What is it like using Drupal for a SAAS
• Is it open source
• Pros and cons of open source for a SAAS
• How can the community support
• What is on the roadmap

Resources

• Violinist.io
• Violinist on D.o

Guests

    Eirik Morland - violinist.io eiriksm

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova

MOTW
Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
• Have you ever wanted a simple way to manage patches to Drupal core and your contrib projects? There’s a composer plugin for that
• Module name/project name:
• https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches
• Composer Patches
• Brief history
• How old:created in Apr 2015 by Cameron Weagans
• Versions available: 1.7.3 and 2.0.0-beta2
• Maintainership
• Actively maintained, beta2 release was a little over a month ago
• Test coverage
• Has a documentation site, as well as a COMMANDS markdown file in the repo to help you get started
• Number of open issues: 10, 2 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
• It’s been installed over 42 million times and it’s approaching 43 thousand installs per day, according to a recent blog post
• Module features and usage
• Using the plugin is simple, you require cweagans/composer-patches the same way you would a Drupal contrib project. The important difference is that composer will ask you if you trust composer-patches to make changes to your codebase. Once you grant that, the plugin is ready to start applying patches
• You can specify what patches you want applied by adding a patches section to the extra section of your project’s composer.json file, or by adding a patches.json file
• Each patch can be specified using a URL or a path relative to the JSON file
• In theory it’s possible to have composer patches pulled directly from the diff in a merge request, but this is a significant security risk and should always be avoided
• The first beta release for the 2.0 branch actually dropped support for dependency patch resolution, noting that it had become the source of most support requests. In the end the community made it clear that they would resist upgrading without this capability, so the most recent beta2 release adds it back in.
•     Finally, on his website cweagans.net Cameron mentions that he’s currently looking for full-time employment. So if your organization relies heavily on composer in general or composer-patches specifically, consider reaching out to him

Today we are talking about Mercury Editor, What it does, and how it could change your editorial life with guest Justin Toupin. We’ll also cover Webform Protected Downloads as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/442

Topics

• What is Mercury Editor
• What is powering Mercury Editor
• Do you see any risk building on top of Paragraphs
• Does Mercury Editor cost anything
• Can companies hire Aten to add features
• What are some key features
• What makes Mercury Editor unique
• How stable is the content
• What happens if Paragraphs stops being supported
• How can the community help

Resources

• Mercury Editor
• Layout Paragraphs Episode
• Layout Paragraphs
• Paragraphs Library
  • Sub-module of Paragraphs
• Style options
• Layout Paragraphs restrictions

Guests

Justin Toupin - atendesigngroup.com justin2pin

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to have downloadable content on your website, only available to visitors who have filled out a webform? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Webform Protected Downloads
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Sep 2010 by berliner, but the most recent releases are by james.williams of Computer Minds
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.1 and 8.x-1.0-alpha2 versions available, the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, the latest release was a week ago
  • Security coverage
  • Introductory blog linked on the project page
  • Number of open issues: 18 open issues, none of which are bugs against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • 804 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Having thought leadership content like white papers or reports gated behind a lead capture form is a common pattern for websites, and this module is designed to make that easy to set up
  • You use the module by adding a handler to your webform, similar to triggering an email send
  • In the configuration for your webform protected download handler you have options for how much verification you want for the download link, whether or not the link should expire after a period of time, and so on, in addition to uploading one or more files that can be downloaded by people who submit the webform
  • The module provides tokens for the download URLs, so you can easily include them in a submission confirmation message or email

Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 2.

Topics

• Review Chad's goals for the previous week
  • DDEV Installation
  • Docker for Mac vs other options
  • IDE Setup
• Review Chad's questions
• Tasks for the upcoming week
  • DDEV improve performance
  • Install Drupal 10
  • Install drupal/core dependencies
  • Configure and test phpcs
  • Test phpstan
  • Set up settings.local.php
  • Install devel module

Resources

DDEV Performance
DDEV Quickstart
Drupal Core Dependencies
How to Implement Drupal Code Standards
Running PHPStan On Drupal Custom Modules

Why you should care about using settings.local.php
Rancher Desktop

Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Curriclum & Journal
Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Notes

Hosts

AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Guests

Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest
Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about CI for Drupal modules, How it helps us build Drupal, and the ongoing work and improvements being made with guest Fran Garcia-Linares. We’ll also cover Require on Publish as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/441

Topics

• What does CI mean
• How do Drupal modules use CI
• When we talk about Drupal CI are we talking about the website itself or the CI that supports contributors
• What tools does Drupal use for CI
• How do maintainers interact with CI
• What changes have happened in the last year
• Speed improvements
• Drupal CI vs Gitlab CI
• Process to convert
• When is Drupal CI being shut down
• What improvements are coming
• If someone has an issue where do they get help

Resources

• Gitlab templates module
• Gitlab CI Drupal
• Support ElasticSearch 8 [#3279558] | Drupal.org
• Slack channel for ci questions #gitlab
• DrupalCI and all patch testing will be turned off on July 1, 2024 | Drupal.org
• Testing a Drupal module | Basic module building tutorial: Lorem ipsum generator
• Gitlab CI getting started
  • GitLab CI | Using GitLab to Contribute to Drupal
  • WIP:
    • Create a space to document how to customize each of the GitLab CI jobs [#3423238] | Drupal.org will generate https://project.pages.drupalcode.org/gitlab_templates/
    • We are pushing for a basic version to be fully live this week
• [Meta] Switching to Gitlab CI [#3424725] | Drupal.org

Guests

Fran Garcia-Linares - fjgarlin

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
Stephen Cross - stephencross.com stephencross
Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to have content fields that could be optional until a piece of content is published, or ready to be published? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Require on Publish
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2018 by Mike Priscella (mpriscella), though recent releases are by Mark Dorison (markdorison) of Chromatic
  • Versions available: 8.x-1.10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release just over a month ago
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 18, 8 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 3,001 sites
• Module features and usage
  • With this module enabled, form to configure fields for you content types will have a new checkbox labeled “Required on Publish”
  • Check this new box instead of the normal “Required field” checkbox to have the field only required if the content is being published or already published
  • Useful for publishing workflows where you want content creators to be able to quickly get started on content, but ensure that fields will be filled in before publishing
  • Useful for fields that will optimize the content for SEO, social sharing, search, and so on

This is the first episode of Skills Upgrade, a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a Drupal 7 developer learning Drupal 10.

Topics

• Chad and Mike's first meeting
• Chad's Background
• Chad's goals
• Tasks for the week

Resources

Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Curriclum & Journal
Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Notes

Hosts

AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Guests

Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest
Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about the cost around Drupal, common misconceptions, and how you get what you pay for with guest Jeff Robbins. We’ll also cover Module Instructions as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/440

Topics

• What is new!
• How did you get started with Drupal
• Selling Drupal and the cost
• How much is the technology vs the complexity of projects that lend themselves to Drupal
• Value of Drupal
• What can the Drupal community do to make it more widely attractive
• Versionless Drupal marketing

Resources

• Drupal.org README.md Documentation
• Drupal versioning discussion
• Talking Drupal #390 - Employee Owned Companies
• Talking Drupal #429 - The Drupal Association Board
• Talking Drupal #439 - Drupal 7 Long-Term Support
• Visibox
• Jeff Robbins
• MySQL
• PHP

Guests

Jeff Robbins - jjeff.com jjeff

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to have easy access to the README, CHANGELOG, and INSTALL files for the contrib modules on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Module Instructions
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2012 by Ales Rebec of Slovenia
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.0 and 2.0.3 versions available, the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained?
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 4 open issues, none of which are bugs against the 2.0.x branch
• Usage stats:
  • 1,238 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Current maintainer of the 2.0.x branch is Viktor Holovachek a.k.a Aston Victor of the Ukraine Drupal Community
• Module features and usage
  • The usage of the module is pretty straightforward. Once the module is installed, anyone who has access to the Modules page on a Drupal site will see links on that page to any README, CHANGELOG, or INSTALL files that are available for the contrib modules in the codebase
  • It also provides a cron job and drush command to generate the links, stored in the site state, so the application isn’t doing all the work of parsing through all your contrib modules looking for the files every time someone wants to load the Modules page
  • It does override the template for the module page to add those links, so be aware that if you’re doing something very custom and have overridden that template in something like a custom admin theme, you may need to manually add some extra markup to see the links
  • The module does also define new permissions, to manage the settings for these links, or to view them
  • The settings really consist of specifying which of the links you want to appear, if the relevant files are available. By default it will show all three, but you could, for example, only have it show README links

Today we are talking about Drupal 7 Long Term Support, common security tips, and support services you can use with guests Greg Knaddison, Aaron Frost, and Dave Welch . We’ll also cover Storybook as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/439

Topics

• Drupal 7 EoL
• Drupal will not stop working
• Security team perspective
• Security concerns
• Extened Community Support
• Long Term support
• HeroDevs
• Never ending support (NES)
  • PHP
  • Hosting
  • Security
  • Contrib
• Product advisor
• Colorado Digital Service

Resources

• herodevs.com
• Colorado Digital Service

Guests

Greg Knaddison - morrisanimalfoundation.org greggles
Aaron Frost - herodevs.com aaronfrost
Dave Welch - herodevs.com dwelch2344

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

MOTW

Correspondent

Mark Casias - markie

• Module name/project name:
  • Storybook
• Brief description:
  • The storybook module makes it easier to create a connection between Drupal and Storybook. It adds some Twig functionality so you can write Stories in Twig as opposed to YML or JSON or React
• Brief history
  • How old: Less than a year
  • Versions available: Alpha4 came out earlier this month
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained: Yes
  • Number of open issues: 6
  • Test coverage: no
• Usage stats:
  • N/A: for development only
  • Maintainer(s):
  • Mateu Aguiló Bosch (e0ipso) from Lullabot.
  • Module features and usage
  • Twig based stories
  • Pulls in Sites theme and base css.
  • So needs some updates to the development.services.yml
  • Also means it is hard to publish a storybook.
  • No need for SDC (but works well with it)
  • Great instructions on the module page
  • Way easier than previous integrations including cl_server.
  • Not as opinionated as previous storybook integrations.

Today we are talking about CKEditor 4 End of Life, Moving to CKEditor 5, and what you can expect from CKEditor 5 now and in the future with guest Wim Leers. We’ll also cover CKEditor 5 Premium Features as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/438

Topics

• CKEditor 4 end of life June 2023
• Issues people might see if they are still on CKE4
• Why a third party library and not roll our own
• Are there other alternatives
• Why did Drupal decide on CKEditor
• Drupal 10 moved to CKE5 How should people update
• Upgrade gotchas
• What's new in CKE5
• What is on the roadmap regarding Drupal and CKE5
• Is there going to be a CKE6
• Native Web Components
• Does CKE in core affect Gutenberg

Resources

• CKEditor 4 End Of Life
  • Contrib
  • Core, prioritized upstream blockers
  • Core, all issues blocked on upstream (currently 29), if we look just at bugs there's 17 (1 of which is critical, 6 major)
• Drastically improve the linking experience in CKEditor 5
• Drupal Image ability to opt in to SVG image uploads
• Native <ol type> and <ul type> UX
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3274635
• Extended html filter
• Views / ckeditor custom elements

Guests

Wim Leers - wimleers.com Wim Leers

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to offer your content creators advanced capabilities like real-time collaboration? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • CKEditor 5 Premium Features
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Sep 2022 by Wiktor Walc, although recent releases are by Wojciech (vOYchekh) Kukowski, both of CKSource, the company behind CKEditor (Wiktor was on episode 372 https://talkingdrupal.com/372)
  • Current version available: 1.2.5 which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release in the past month
  • User Guide available, link is in the README
  • Number of open issues: 16, 8 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 159 sites
• Module features and usage
  • To me, the most compelling features enabled by this module are the ones that turn your Drupal WYSIWYG into a robust collaboration tool, similar to what users may be used to in tools like Google Docs or Office 365
  • Real-time inline comments and changes from multiple users
  • Track changes to suggest ways the content could be improved
  • A history of changes made in the WYSIWYG, independent of the saved Drupal revisions
  • Tag users with @ mentions to have them notified
  • There’s also a Productivity Pack to enhance your WYSIWYG, and again some of these will be familiar to users that also use popular online collaboration tools
  • A document outline that uses heading within your content to make navigation for moving quickly within the document
  • Can generate a linked Table of Contents, which will automatically update as headings are added or changed
  • Slash commands to execute actions
  • Enhanced Paste from Office, to preserve complex incoming content structures, but with clean HTML as the result
  • And more!
  • Another premium feature is the ability to export to Word or PDF, and it can also restore full screen editing, a feature that didn’t make the transition from CKEditor 4 to 5, as part of the open source offering
  • Finally, it also includes an AI Assistant that provides yet another interesting way to empower your content authors to leverage AI tools for their writing, including the ability to change the style, length, or tone of selected content using pre-made prompts, or generate content with custom queries. It also works with a number of different models out of the box, so you’re not restricted to ChatGPT
  • The module is open source but using these premium features does require a subscription. The pricing will depend on the number of active users and which features you need, so if you’d like more information you can use the contact form at ckeditor.com
  • Also worth mentioning here that the team at Palantir has released a YouTube video of an open source collaborative editor that they’re calling Edit Together. It’s based on the ProseMirror rich-text editor framework, and the blog where they announced it mentioned a mid-2024 release, but that was back in Jul 2023 and I haven’t been able to find any updates since then

Today we are talking about sending email with Drupal, The Easy Email Module, and Drupal Mail Best Practices with guest Wayne Eaker. We’ll also cover Content Access by Path as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/437

Topics

• Current state of email
• What happened to swiftmailer
• Do you still need the mailsystem module
• Why Symfony Mailer
• New dependency in core
• Difference between Symfony Mailer module and the Symfony Mailer Lite module
• How does the Easy email module make it easier
• What are the features of Easy Email
• Why not use PHP mail
• JMAP
• Do you have a roadmap
• How do we communicate the different module options
• Are you looking for help

Resources

• Easy Email Module
• Symfony Mailer Lite Module
• Symfony Mailer Module
• Mail System Module
• hook_mail replacement issue
• Swiftmailer / Symfony mailer issue
• JMAP
• FastMail
• Free Easy Email Webinar

Guests

Wayne Eaker - drupaltutor.com zengenuity

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to grant users access to edit content based on the path alias of the content? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Content Access by Path
• Brief history
  • How old: created in the past month by Mark Conroy of Annertech, who is also a core subsystem maintainer for the Umami profile
  • Versions available: a stable 1.0.0, created in the past week, that works with Drupal 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Doesn’t have a user guide yet, but the module’s README does include some FAQs, and the project page includes a link to a YouTube video that demonstrates how to install and use the module
  • Number of open issues: 2, one of which is a bug
• Usage stats:
  • 2 sites
• Module features and usage
  • When installed, the module adds a new taxonomy vocabulary to your site. You can add terms to this vocabulary to define sections by path
  • Users on the site will have a new field, where you can reference one or more of the section terms, granting the user access to edit any content with a path that matches the section
  • The module also includes a submodule called Content Access by Path Admin Content. When installed, users who go to the admin/content listing will only see content listed that they can edit, based on either the sections they’ve been assigned, or their ownership of the content.
  • Granting edit permissions to a “section” of the website is a common ask for site owners, so I’m excited that this module makes it easy to set that up. There are solutions in the contrib ecosystem based on taxonomy for access control, and back in episode #414 we talked about Access Policy as a very flexible way to grant edit permissions, but in my mind those all require more set-up, and may require an extra step during content creation to make sure the right access is available. Content Access by Path, along with something like the near-ubiquitous Pathauto, can make it pretty painless to set up and use section-specific edit permissions

Today we are talking about AI within Drupal, How AI can help, and Modules to use with guest Martin Anderson-Clutz. We’ll also cover Augmentor AI as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/436

Topics

• Terminology
• IMF analysis
• Prompt engineering
• AI in Drupal
• Best way to try modules
• Best use of AI
• Other ways of integrating

Resources

• Augmentor AI
• Open AI
• Prompt Engineering: Get the Most From Your Drupal Site's AI Integration
• Terminology
  • NLP - work with text provided in a conversational format, understand the intended meaning, and provide a relevant response
  • AI - A subset of CS that aims to develop systems that can mimic human response, or automating sophisticated behavior
  • ML - subset of AI that aims to act without explicit guidance, by extrapolating from known data
  • Deep learning - a subset of ML which uses artificial neural networks with representational learning to develop and leverage their own means of classification and other feature detection
  • LLM - an AI algorithm that uses Deep Learning techniques to accomplish NLP tasks such as responding to unstructured user prompts. LLMs are trained on massive data sets, often gathered from the internet, but sometimes using more specialized data
  • Typically the AI interfaces our listeners are already using are based on an LLM, but the nature and recency of the data they’ve been trained on can vary widely. Recently Mike Miles created Drupal Droid, a GPT model specifically trained for Drupal developers, and you can find a demo of that in our YouTube channel
• Mike Miles Drupal Droid
• AI module list
• OpenAI Image
• Search API Pinecone
• TMGMT Translator OpenAI

Guests

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu
Augmentor AI

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted a highly configurable way to integrate multiple AI services with your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Oct 2022 by murrayw of Morpht, though recent releases are by elonel
  • Versions available: 1.1.2 which works with Drupal 9.5 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, most recent release was earlier this month
  • Documentation available
  • Number of open issues: 11, 3 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 82 sites
• Module features and usage
  • To use Augmentor AI, you need to define one or more “augmentor” configuration entities. An augmenter entity implements an augmentor type, which determines what AI service it can use, what configuration options it will have available, and so on.
  • The augmentor will define one or more “messages” that provide structure to the prompt that will be passed to the AI model in order to generate a response. It can also be configured in a variety of ways, such as how much randomness to use, a maximum response length, and more.
  • You can expose your augmentor(s) to content creators by adding a CKEditor button, or by adding fields to your site’s entity forms. For each field use can choose the widget to use, and how it should interact with any existing data in the field you want to target.
  • For example, you could have it generate a summary from your body field and have it automatically populate the summary field. Or, you can have it suggest tags, but the specialized widget renders each suggestion as a clickable element that will add the tag to a core tag field.
  • There are currently modules available to integrate Augmentor AI with ChatGPT, Google Cloud Vision, AWS AI, and more.

Today we are talking about web design and development, from a group of people with one thing in common… We love Drupal. This is episode #435 UI Suite initiative.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/435

Topics

• Elevator Pitch
• What do you mean by implementing design systems
• Is this to thel themers or site builders
• What is the expected outcome
• The project page says initiative, but this is not on the community initiatives page, is this an intitiative
• How does this implement public design systems
• Does this work with Single Directory Components
• Youtube Channel
• Getting involved
• Roadmap
• Use cases
• Do you see this going into core

Resources

• UI Suite Initiative
• UI Suite YouTube
• UI Suite Slack

Guests

Pierre Dureau - LinkedIn pdureau

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

MOTW

Correspondent

Chris Wells - chrisfromredfin

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted simple but accessible dropdown navigation on your Drupal website? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Disclosure Menu
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2022 by Jay Huskins of Redfin Solutions
  • Versions available: 2.1.5 which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, most recent commit is less than a month ago
  • No Test coverage at this point
  • Documentation - via README.md
  • Number of open issues: 2, neither of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 29 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Jay Huskins, with support from Redfin
• Module features and usage
  • Provides a new menu block that includes markup for disclosure buttons, that make it easier for users on assistive devices to navigate drop-down menus
  • Activating the button will toggle the visibility of nested menu items
  • Also includes ARIA labels to provide clarity around what the buttons do
  • Worth mentioning that Drupal’s Olivero theme also includes disclosure buttons in its mWe’ll also cover Disclosure Menu as our module of the week.
  • Guest Introenus, but there isn’t a straightforward way to pull the menus implemented there into your custom theme
  • Also had a write-up in the Drupal advent calendar we talked about last month, so listeners can also check that out if they want more information

Today we are talking about te show itself. We’ll also cover Autosave Form as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/434

Topics

• Update on the show
  • Guest hosts
  • MOTW Correspondent
  • Newsletter
• Sponsorship
• Open Collective
• Content
• New content in 2024
• Expanding team

Resources

• Open Collective

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - stephencross.com stephencross

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted an autosave feature on your Drupal site’s forms, so content creators won’t lose their work if they accidentally close the window or lose power? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Autosave Form
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2016 by Hristo Chonov of 1x Internet, who is also one of the organizers of Drupal Dev Days 2024 in Burgas
  • Versions available: 8.x-1.4 which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, most recent comment less than 3 months ago
  • Test coverage
  • 38 open issues, 20 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 6,414 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Works by automatically saving the content of the current form every 60 seconds, though the time period is configurable
  • When a user opens a form, if an autosaved state exists for that form a dialog will be shown asking if they want to resume editing or discard any autosaved states
  • Once a form is submitted, any saved states will be automatically deleted
  • Notionally it should work with both content entity forms and config forms, but the majority of development and testing has been with entity forms in mind
  • The project page also mentions an issue with nested entity reference inline forms, and has links to relevant Drupal core issues
  • Worth noting that this module uses AJAX to save the states to the Drupal database, separate from entity revisions
  • If you want a solution that save form states into the browser’s localStorage instead, you can check out the Save Form State module, using the jQuery Sisyphus plugin

Today we are talking about The Drupal 10 Masterclass book, How it’s different from other Drupal books, and why you need it on your bookshelf with author Adam Bergstein. We’ll also cover Dashboards as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/433

Topics

• What is Drupal 10 Masterclass about
• Who is this book for
• Why did you write the book
• Can you explain the subtitle a bit
• How does this differ from other recent Drupal books
• Can you tell us about the authoring experience
• What can our listeners do to make this book a success
• Do you think you’ll write another book
• Simplytest.me update

Resources

• Drupal 10 Masterclass: Build responsive Drupal applications to deliver custom and extensible digital experiences to users
• Drupal 10 Development Cookbook by Matt Glaman and Kevin Quillen
• Modernizing Drupal 10 theme development by Luca Lusso
• Modern Drupal by Selwyn Polit
• Rachel Lawson
• Mike Herchel

Guests

Adam Bergstein - @n3rdstein

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to add a dashboard to your Drupal site, to provide at-a-glance information to editors? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Dashboards with Layout Builder
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2019 by Erik Seifert of 1x Internet
  • Versions available: 2.0.8 and 2.1.6 versions available, the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
• Test coverage
  • 13 open issues, 5 of which are bugs on th 2.1.x branch
• Usage stats:
  • 1,878 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Allows for the creation of dashboards as exportable config entities, using Layout Builder to define the layout and placement of blocks
  • It’s possible to create unique dashboards per user
  • Out of the box you get a number of dashboards components to embed views, show recent errors, display content from RSS feeds, and more
  • Dashboard components are defined using a new plugin base, so you can also create custom components to meet the unique needs of your site
  • The dashboards are also optimized for use with Gin, which isn’t a surprise because 1x Internet is also a sponsor of the Gin admin theme. If your site is also using Gin then this module will provide a central dashboard that seamless integrate with the backend UI
  • If you’re looking to implement dashboards on your site, you can also look at Moderation Dashboard and Homebox as other options. The latter of those is even more widely used, but mostly by D7 sites. That said, drupal.org is one of those sites, so if your team is active on drupal.org then the interface will be very familiar
  • There is also a Dashboard Initiative that has been started by some core maintainers, so using one of these modules can set you up to weigh in on what the ideal state for the initiative might look like

Today we are talking about Portals, Community Websites, and Drupal with guest Ron Northcutt. We’ll also cover Private Message as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/432

Topics

• Why are you passionate about community sites
• Different types of portals you’ve worked on
• Common features
• Why is Drupal a great fit
• Why would you choose Drupal over a Saas or PaaS
• What is unique about each community
• How important is UX
• What common content models do you see
• Most important tip

Resources

• Lego sorting
  • https://news.lugnet.com/storage/?n=709
  • https://brickarchitect.com/guide/bricks/
• PHPBB
• discourse
• Open Social
• Monday

Guests

Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Module name/project name:
  • Private Message
• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to include a full-fledged, ajaxified system for private messages between users on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2017 by Jaypan, a fellow Canadian, but the most recent release is by Lucas Hedding, who hails from Nicaragua, and is a prolific contrib maintainer in his own right
  • Versions available: 8.x-2.0-beta18 and 3.0.0 versions available, the latter of which works with D9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release in Oct 2023
  • Number of open issues: 130, 4 of which are bugs on the 3.0.x branch
  • Test coverage
• Documentation: does have a handbook, though the pages seem to date back to 2017, so hopefully the installation and setup hasn’t changed too much since then
• Usage stats:
  • Almost 2,000 sites
  • Maintainer(s):
• Module features and usage
  • With the Private Message module installed, users on your site can have permissions-based access to send private messages to each other
  • Messages and threads are fieldable entities, and in general the module is made to be highly configurable, so you can tailor it to meet your site’s specific needs
  • That includes the frequency for asynchronous operations like loading new messages, which can be done without a full page refresh. There’s also a companion module to use Node.js for the asynchronous operations, to reduce load on both the browser and the server
  • That also allows for browser push notifications, or you can use the integration with the Message module to send notifications via email, SMS, and more, including aggregating the notifications into digests
  • Companies often have a dedicated messaging solution like Slack or Teams that they use internally, but this can be a good solution for an extranet or vendor portal, where the users may represent a variety of organizations
  • It’s also worth mentioning that both Private Message and Message are included in the Open Social distribution, so that could be a way to try out a preconfigured setup

Talking Drupal #431 - Live at NEDCamp

On today’s show we share interviews we conducted with sponsors, speakers and attendees at New England Drupal Camp in November. Seventeen in all.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/431

Topics

Interviews with:

Michael Miles
Nick Silverman
Matt O’Bryant
Ethan Aho
Mike Anello
Patrick Anderson
Brian Perry
Aubrey Sambor
Brigitte Ayerves Valderas
Chris Wells
Richard Hood
Chris Amato
Ivan Stegic
Philip Frilling
Rod Martin
Jacob Rockowitz
Whitney Hess

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu
Stephen Cross - StephenCross.com

Today we are talking about Drupal in 2024, What we are looking forward to with Drupal 11, and the Drupal Advent Calendar with James Shields. We’ll also cover Drupal 10.2 as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/430

Topics

• Advent calendar
• Selection process
• Popularity
• Next year
• Drupal features in 2024
• Drupal 11
  • Project browser
  • Recipes / Starter templates
  • Automated updates
  • Gitlab
  • Smaller core
• Predictions

Resources

• Drupal Advent Calendar
• A Plan for Drupal 11
• Drupal 10.2 announcement
• Change Records for 10.2.0
  • https://www.drupal.org/node/3395582
  • https://www.drupal.org/node/3395575
  • https://www.drupal.org/node/3369935
• Dev Days

Guests

James Shields - lostcarpark.com lostcarpark

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu
Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu
Drupal 10.2

• Improvements include
  • Technology Updates
    • PHP 8.3
    • Includes capabilities that previously required contrib projects
    • File name sanitization
    • A search filter on the permissions page
  • End Users
    • Performance enhancements and improved caching APIs
    • Support for PHP Fibers to accelerate handling things like asynchronous remote calls
  • Content Creators
    • Revision UI for media
    • Wider editing area in Claro on large screens
    • The return of “Show blocks” in CKEditor 5, missing until now
  • Site Builders
    • Field creation UI has a new, more visual interface, and an updated workflow
    • Block visibility can now be based on the HTTP response status, for example to make it visible or invisible on 404 or 403 responses
    • Tour module is no longer enabled by default for the Standard and Umami profiles
    • New “negated regular expression” operator for views filters (string/integer), to exclude results matching a provided pattern
  • Site Owners
    • Announcements Feed is now stable and included in the Standard profile
    • The functionality in the experimental Help Topics module has been merged into the main Help module, so the Help Topics module is now deprecated
    • New permission: Use help pages
  • Developers
    • A fairly sizable change is a move to use native PHP attributes instead of doctrine annotations to declare metadata for plugin classes. Work is already underway to get core code converted, and an issue has been opened to have rector do this conversion for contrib projects
    • A new DeprecationHelper::backwardsCompatibleCall() method to help write Drupal extensions that support multiple versions of core
    • A PerformanceTestBase is now in core, to support automated testing of performance metrics
    • A new #config_target property in ConfigFormBase to simplify creating configuration forms
    • Symfony mailer is now a composer dependency of core
    • New decimal primitive data type
    • Expanded configuration validation, Symfony autowiring support, HTML5 output from the HTML utility class is now default, and more
    • In addition to these and the features highlighted in the official announcement, there are three pages of change records for the 10.2.0 release, and we’ll include a link to those in the show notes

Today we are talking about the Drupal Association Board, Its Strategic Initiatives, and The Future of Drupal with guest Baddý Sonja Breidert. We’ll also cover Advent Calendar as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/429

Topics

• Former member of Board of Drupal Association
• What does the board do
• How does the board operate
• Are there term limits
• How does someone get on the board
• Strategic Initiatives
  • Innovation
  • Marketing
  • Fundraising
• Now that you are no longer on the board what’s next
• CEO of 1xInternet
• How did you get started with Drupal

Resources

• Try Drupal

Guests

Baddý Sonja Breidert - 1xinternet.de/en baddysonja

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Advent Calendar

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to reveal content a day-at-a-time, in an interactive advent calendar? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created less than month ago in Nov 2023 by listener James Shields, whose drupal.org username is lostcarpark
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-beta3 release, which works with Drupal 10.1 and newer
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release made earlier today
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 5, 3 of which are bugs, but all but one are now marked as fixed
• Usage stats:
  • 6 sites
• Module features and usage
  • James actually created a Drupal advent calendar a year ago, on his website lostcarpark.com. The idea was to showcase a new module every day, similar to advent calendars that provide a chocolate or a toy each day, hidden behind a cardboard door
  • James’ initial version displayed the content in a traditional calendar format, using the Calendar View module. What he really wanted, however, was a way to present the content using clickable doors to reveal new entries
  • The new Advent Calendar module provides a new view display, so you can configure what content type or other filters to apply, and use fields to specify what information to show
  • The module uses a Single Directory Component for display, hence the 10.1 requirement
  • There is also an “Advent Calendar Quickstart” submodule that sets up everything for you, including a content type, view, and 24 nodes to populate it for you
  • Each site visitor gets to “open” the door to new content as it is published each day. For authenticated users, which doors have been opened is stored as user data, and for anonymous users it’s kept in local storage via Javascript
  • In addition to this being an interesting module in its own right, the advent calendar James has created this year is also a community effort. He’s managed to enlist a wide variety of contributors to write about modules or aspects of the Drupal community that they’re passionate about, so it’s a great way to up your Drupal game. You can open a new door yourself every day at https://lostcarpark.com/advent-calendar-2023

Today we are talking about Being a Digital Nomad, common nomadic hurdles, and realized work/life benefits with guests Chad Hester and Shelley Goetz. We’ll also cover Flag as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/428

Topics

• What does digital nomad mean?
• When did you first start to think about this
• What was your physical journey like
• What do you do for work
• What is the biggest win
• How did this affect family dynamics
• What was the biggest gotcha
• Tips and tricks
• Long term plan
• Why not Europe or South America
• Question from Stephen: As a Patriots fan what are your thoughts on the 2023 season, is Bill Belichick staying or going

Resources

• The Flag module
• US-CA Nomads on Instagram
• US-CA Nomads on Flicker
• Chad on LinkedIn
• Chad’s website
• Chad’s d.o profile
• Shelley on LinkedIn
• Shelley on Instagram
• An off-grid (on Vancouver Island) youtube channel that inspires Chad and Shelley
• Snowshoe Fondue on Mt. Washington

Guests

Shelley Goetz - shelleygoetz
Chad Hester - chadkhester.com chadhester

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Flag

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted a simple way to let users bookmark, like, or even flag as inappropriate content on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: originally created in 2008 by quicksketch, who listeners may remember as the original author of Webform
  • Versions available: 7.x-3.9 and 8.x-4.0-beta4
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, but no commits in the last year
• Has a handbook, but it’s in the old documentation system
• Number of open issues: 675, 132 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
• Usage stats:
  • Over 38,000 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Recent releases by Berdir, who we recently mentioned as the maintainer of TMGMT in episode #426
• Module features and usage
  • The Flag module provides a flexible system that can reference any kind of entity, so content, users, comments and so on
  • When you create a flag type, you set the target entity type, and then you can optionally choose specific bundles that can be flagged
  • Flags can be per-user, like bookmarks, or global, meaning that they’re the same for everyone
  • Links to Flag or Unflag content or other entities can be displayed in a variety of ways: in a field, in entity links, as contextual links, and more
  • By default flag links are rendered as AJAX links that flag or unflag content without reloading the page, but you can configure them to display in various ways, including a links to a field entry form, because flag types are also fieldable
  • There is extensive views integration, so it’s easy to list flagged content, for example to show a user content they’ve flagged as their favorites. The ecosystem of modules around Flag includes one called Views Flag Refresh that can trigger a view to automatically update via AJAX as soon as any content in that view is flagged or unflagged
  • Not long ago I used Flag as part of a lightweight task management system within Drupal, and anyone wanting to try that out can install the Tasks module

On today’s show we are turning the tables and Nic and John will be interviewed by our guest host Melissa Bent. We’ll also cover Content Model Documentation as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/427

Topics

• What made you decide to start the podcast
• Who does what tasks
• The first episode was on May 30 2013. What do you know now that you wish you knew then
• When did the guest host start
• What has been your favorite episode
• How did you come to this format
• Where did the tagline come from
• What technology do you use in production
• The show is supported by multiple platforms, would you recommend this
• What advice would you give someone just starting

Resources

• GovCon Session for Content Model Documentation
• First Episode
• Three hundred
• The Night before DrupalCon
• Wade Wingler
• Jono Bacon
• Dries’ First Episode
• Needs Review Issue Queue
• Sustainability Guidelines
• A Website’s Carbon Footprint
• vdo.ninja
• kdenlive
• Audacity
• Patreon
• Youtube
• Libsyn
• Kid3
• Auphonic
• Midjourney
• Trello
• Hackmd.io

Guests

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

Hosts

Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Content Model & Site Documentation

• Brief description:
  • Have you wanted to make your Drupal site self-documenting directly within the admin UI? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jan 2023
  • Versions available: 1.0.23, compatible with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release was a week ago
  • Test coverage
  • No official guide, but there was a recent talk about the module at GovCon, so you can watch that
  • Number of open issues: 43 open, 9 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 82 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Steve Wirt (swirt) who works for Civic Actions
• Module features and usage
  • Allows your Drupal site to generate its own documentation
  • Has fieldable Content Model Document entities that allow you to customize what data will be stored
  • Can optionally document things like your content types, taxonomies, block types, paragraph types, and more
  • Documentation elements can also be associated with parts of your site configuration, and they become available within the relevant parts of your admin UI. For example, if you add documentation for a specific content type, when a site builder goes into edit that content type they will see a link to the documentation as a tab
  • You can generate entity relationship diagrams using MermaidJS
  • Also includes a field search capability originally developed as a separate module by Matthieu Scarset, who was a guest on this show back in episode #298
  • Will also generate diagrams to illustrate your content workflows, showing the states defined and the transitions between them

Today we are talking about The Needs Review Queue Initiative, What it is, and How it’s helping to improve Drupal with guest Stephen Mustgrave. We’ll also cover Translation Management Tool as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/426

Topics

• Can you give an overview of Needs Review Issue Queue Initiative
• Is the bug smash initiative related to the needs review issue queue
• Is this the same as the needs review bot
• How many issues were in the Needs Review status when you started
• How many issues today
• How long did it take until it was manageable
• How long do items stay on average
• Who else is helping
• Let’s talk through the pagination heading level issue
• What help can the community provide
• How does someone get involved
• Do you think this helps with burnout for core committers
• What’s the future of the initiative

Resources

• Needs Review Queue Bot
• Needs Review Issue Queue
• Pagination heading level issue

Guests

Stephen Mustgrave - smustgrave

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Translation Management Tool (TMGMT)

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to automate the process of creating content translations on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jan 2012
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.0-rc3 and 8.x-1.15, the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation
  • Number of open issues: 595, 139 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
• Usage stats:
  • 8,766 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Berdir, a very prolific maintainer in his own right, who also supports well known projects like Search API, Token, Paragraphs, and many more
• Module features and usage
  • Provides a tool set for automating the process of creating translations for your site content, as well as strings used within the site like menus, interface text, and so on
  • Works with more than 30 translation service providers, including many that leverage human translators, but also AI-based services like DeepL and OpenAI
  • Also has a plugin system to determine what text needs to be translated, so it can be easily adapted to very custom needs
  • With the module installed that Translate tab on your nodes changes to have buttons to request a translation in each language
  • Once a translation has been requested, it will run through states like unprocessed, active, and finished
  • Also provides an option for Continuous Translation, where new and updated content is automatically submitted for translation
  • Allows for professional translation at scale, using whatever kind of service works best for your site
  • The need for robust translation capabilities is what originally got me started using Drupal, so it’s great to see that there are enterprise-grade options for sites that need to manage translations at scale

Today we are talking about the a new Drupal Book Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development, What’s new in Drupal 10 theming, and tools that can help speed up theming with guest Luca Lusso. We’ll also cover Admin Dialogs as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/425

Topics

• Why write a book about Drupal theming
• How does the book modernize theming
• Who is the book for
• Do you have to have a certain level of knowledge to start
• What are some new aspects of Drupal 10 that are covered in the book
• Does the book talk about:
  • Javascript frameworks
  • Native Web Components
• What tools outside of Drupal do you talk about
• How did you conduct your research
• Do you have plans to keep the github updated
• How long did it take to write the book
• Tech moves quickly, what is the shelf-life of the book
• Future editions
• Purchase from Amazon or Packt
• Translation
• Plans for another book

Resources

• Admin Dialog Blog
• Book github
• Buy the book

Guests

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka

MOTW

Correspondent

Jacob Rockowitz - @jrockowitz
Admin Dialogs

• Brief description: (from the maintainer)
  • The Admin Dialogs module improves the UI by reducing the number of page loads. For example, instead of opening a delete confirmation page, the module will show the form in a dialog (modal) form.
  • https://www.chapterthree.com/blog/improve-drupal-admin-ui-new-admin-dialogs-module
• Brief history
  • How old: Created on May 2023
  • Versions available: 1.0.x stable release
  • Last release: 1.0.17 - July 12, 2023
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained? Yes
  • Number of open issues: 6
  • Test coverage
    • No test coverage
    • Module is fairly simple and easy to manually test
    • Code quality is very good
• Usage stats:
  • sites 150+
• Maintainer(s):
  • Minnur Yunusov (minnur)
  • https://www.drupal.org/u/minnur
  • https://www.minnur.com/
• Sponsor
  • Chapter Three
• Module features and usage
  • Comes with the ability to add modal or off-canvas dialogs to different links in Drupal.
  • Easy to use. Most features available after installing the module.
  • Adds controls dialog type for operation links like Edit, Delete etc.
  • Adds and controls dialog type for local tasks.
  • Adds and controls dialog types for local actions.
  • Ability to add dialogs via specified A tag paths.
  • Ability to add dialogs via specifying CSS selectors (classes and IDs).
  • Adds option to control delete button dialog.
  • You can add support for your modules by adding configs created in the module.
  • Experimental: Add loading spinner to form submit elements on form submit.
• Discussion
  • The module does one thing and does it really well
  • Require no initial configuration.
  • Worth reviewing common administration tasks for contributed modules and deciding if a modal dialogs or sidebar can improve the admin UX.

Today we are talking about the Web Sustainability Guidelines, How sustainability applies to the web, and how your website can be more sustainable with guests Mike Gifford and Andy Blum. We’ll also cover LB Plus as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/424

Topics

• What are the Web sustainability guidelines
• Do they only apply to environmental impact
• When we think about sustainability we think of funding, does WSG speak to that
• Why are the WSG important
• What is the best way to implement WSG
• How do the WSG’s apply to Drupal
• Have the WSG’s been finalized
• Are they open source
• How can someone get involved

Resources

• Web Sustainability Guidelines
• Carbon footprint of your website
• Eggcorns
• Andy’s blog post
• w3c/sustyweb
• Sustainable web design working group
• Green Web Foundation

Guests

Mike Gifford - mgifford.medium.com @mgifford

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Layout Builder Plus

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to make Layout Builder easier and more intuitive for content creators? There are a few modules that can help with that, but today we’re going to talk about one called Layout Builder Plus
• Brief history
  • How old: Originally created in Apr 2022
  • Versions available: 2.0.1 release, compatible with Drupal 10 and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release just a week ago
  • Number of open issues: 2, both bugs, but both marked as fixed
• Usage stats:
  • 9 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Tim Bozeman of Tag1
• Module features and usage
  • Provides an overhaul of the Layout Builder UI, to make it easier for content creators:
  • Show a curated list of promoted blocks with icons, with lesser-used blocks available in a separate tab
  • Once a block is placed it shows automatically generated content, instead of asking the user to fill out a form before they can see what it will look like
  • Editing the content of a block happens in an overlay instead of the settings tray, so it can use more of the screen
  • Moves the Save Layout and other action buttons to the bottom of the page
  • Also adds some nice capabilities to Layout Builder, including:
  • Drag and drop entire sections
  • Change the layout of an existing section, even if it has blocks in it
  • Clone and update existing blocks
  • Finally, it includes a submodule to integrate with the Section Library module, which allows for a section within a layout to be saved so it can be reused again and again
  • I’ll also note that this is a module nominated by one of our listeners in the #talkingdrupal channel of the Drupal slack workspace, so if there’s a module you’d like to hear about in this segment, drop us a note in there

Today we are talking about The Conflict Resolution Team, What they do, and Why they do it with guest Mark Casias. We’ll also cover Smart Trim as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/423

Topics

• What is the Conflict Resolution Team
• Why is the Conflict Resolution Team needed
• When / Why was the Conflict Resolution Team created
• What kinds of issues does the Conflict Resolution Team deal with
• Do you meet separately from discussing issues
• How do you handle burnout
• How does one become a member
• Why are you a member
• How do you submit an issue to the Conflict Resolution Team
• How many submissions do you get
• Do you have to include the Drupal Association
• Does the DA provide tools
• Does the Conflict Resolution Team need help
• Is there any specific training you look for
  • Code of conduct training
• Anything you would like to add

Resources

• Conflict Resolution Team

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Mark Casias - kanopi.com - markie

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Smart Trim

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to truncate provided user text in a more intelligent way than the “summary or trimmed” formatter in Drupal core? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: Originally created in Apr 2012
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.6 and 2.1.0 versions available, the latter compatible with Drupal 8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
• Number of open issues
  • 74, 8 of which are active bugs against the 2.x branch
• Test coverage, using the new GitLab CI
• User guide for documentation
• Usage stats:
  • 66,919
• Maintainer(s):
  • Friends of the podcast, markie, ultimike, volkswagenchick
  • Module features and usage
  • Adds a variety of configuration options, in addition to the trim length:
  • Whether the length is characters or words
  • An optional suffix at the trim point e.g. ellipsis
  • Whether or not to add a more link after the trimmed text
  • Stripping HTML tags from the trimmed output
  • The ability to customize the output even more via twig template override
  • Because it works by providing a field formatter it works with entity display but also views, layout builder, and more
  • A module I’ve used many times myself and found extremely useful. I haven’t had a chance to try the latest release, but given the recent focus on UI improvements, documentation, and flexibility in the twig template it should be even better than I remember

Today we are talking about Commerce Kickstart, Commerce in General, and What’s new at Centarro with guest Ryan Szrama. We’ll also cover Navigation as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/422

Topics

• High level overview of commerce kickstart
• Is it a distribution
• Will it move to recipes
• Why use commerce directly over kickstart
• Does kickstart lend itself to a specific type of site
• Compare with Shopify
• Do you ever recommend Shopify
• Are there additional conditions or events being added
• Can people contribute to kickstart
• What is Centarro focused on now
• What is the state of headless

Resources

• Selling File Downloads and certificates through Drupal Commerce
• Commerce Kickstart
• Driesnote
• Methodical coffee

Guests

Ryan Szarma - ryanszrama.com rszrama

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Mark Casias - kanopi.com - markie

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Navigation

• Brief description:
  • Would you like to try out and give feedback on a proposed overhaul to how Drupal’s administration menu works? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: project created in 2004, but the namespace was taken over earlier this year as a place to work on the proposed new navigation in the contrib space
  • Versions available: No releases yet, so you need to clone the repo into your custom modules
• Maintainership
  • Very active development, commits in the past day
• Number of open issues:
  • 46, 14 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • Officially 1 site is using it, but not recommended for production anyway
• Maintainer(s):
  • Include Christina Chumillas, Sascha Eggenberger, Lauri Eskola, Mike Herschel, and more
• Module features and usage
  • At this point, really a prototype, trying to define what the user experience should be
  • Worth noting that the latest release for the Gin admin theme also includes this new updated navigation as an experimental feature that can be updated, but still best to leave feedback on the Navigation project
  • The main idea is that instead of having dropdowns that fly out for deeper level menu items, the navigation is in a sidebar, with menu items that expand to reveal child items when clicked
  • It’s worth noting that dropdown menus with multiple levels handled in flyouts are a known usability pain point, and are often cited by industry experts like Jakob Neilsen as something to avoid
  • There are still some usability issues to be thought through with this approach, for example there is no longer a way to reach the top page of a section or subsection, because clicking on the link shows or hides the child items instead
  • This was a subject of some very active discussions at DrupalCon Europe last week, so I thought it would be good to cover this week, so our listeners can add their voices

Today we are talking about The Future of Drupal article, What Challenges Drupal may have, and How we can overcome them together! with guest Ricardo Marcelino.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/421

Topics

• Can you describe the article this topic is based on
• Module percentages
• Drupal’s challenges
• Drupal’s unique selling proposition
• How can Drupal expand relevance
• Why is relevance important
• How does Drupal move forward
• What’s next for Drupal
• Do you think this is a natural change for a project like Drupal
• How do we ensure the future of Drupal

Resources

• The Future of Drupal
• Drupal Day Portugal Slides
• Dries note

Guests

Ricardo Marcelino - omibee.com rfmarcelino

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Mark Casias - kanopi.com - markie

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
(Next.js)[https://www.drupal.org/project/next]

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to build a website with a React-based front end, but with lots of the robust and mature CMS capabilities that Drupal provides? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jan 2021 by shadcn, who continues to support it, including in the #nextjs channel in Drupal slack
• Versions available:
  • 1.6.3 for Drupal 9 & 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, though it uses a Github repo as its place for collaboration, including issues
• Number of open issues:
  • 135 open, 12 of them bugs
• Test coverage? Y
• Usage stats:
  • 1,249 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • shadcdn, who continues to support it, including in the #nextjs channel in Drupal slack
• Module features and usage:
  • For anyone not familiar with Next.js, it’s a React framework for building front-end applications that gives developers a number a number of useful capabilities, such as dynamic routing, performance optimizations, integrations, and more
  • The Next.js module for Drupal optimizes your Drupal backend for use as the content repository for a Next.js front end
  • It add functionality like headless preview of unpublished content, even across multiple front end apps
  • It also supports Incremental Site Regeneration, a best practice to ensure your front end site can serve static pages for the fastest possible delivery, but without the risk of serving stale content
  • Works with the JSON:API Menu Items and JSON:API Views Drupal modules to allow even more of your front end site to be managed within your Drupal backend
  • There’s even a Next.js Webform module that allows your Drupal site builder to create webforms, and have the React forms automatically created
  • There is also a specialized version of Next.js, a “next-drupal-basic-starter”, also maintained by shadcn, that helps to get your Next.js front end working with Drupal more quickly

Today we are talking about Same Page Preview, Why it’s needed, and When it might land in Drupal Core with our guest Chris Weber. We’ll also cover Type Tray as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/420

Topics

• Origin story
• What does same page preview do
• Who maintains the module
• Current state
• How does the module handle smaller screens
• Performance
• Caching concerns
• Core inclusion
• Roadmap
• How can people get involved
• Listener Question: Stephen 10+ years ago, I recall connecting to Drupal Coffee on Google+ hosted by you, this is when we started Talking Drupal. Am I remembering right?

Resources

• The Randomatics
  • https://www.facebook.com/therandomatics
  • https://soundcloud.com/therandomatics
• Pitchburg
• Getting it into core
• loom tool
• Talking Drupal #48 Overnight Website Challenge with Chris Weber
• Twin Cities Drupal talk about Same Page preview
• Loom videos showing progress:
  • Phase 1: https://www.loom.com/share/425c0abedaf448f486a0289a7121361d
  • Phase 2: https://www.loom.com/share/97fea8c3819a44aba0690aacb77f7a37
  • Phase 2.1: https://www.loom.com/share/04c5ced243314cdeb1a22e95b101b54e

Guests

Chris Weber - nerdery.com - cosmicdreams

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Mark Casias - kanopi.com - markie

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Type Tray

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to present a better, more organized version of the Content Add page, on a Drupal site with a large number of Content Types? There’s a module for that
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Mar 2021
• Versions available
  • 1.2.4 for D9.2+ & D10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release <3 mo ago
• Number of open issues:
  • 3, only 3 of which are bugs (2 have patches)
• Test coverage? Y
• Usage stats:
  • 8,704 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Created by marcoscano, along with a couple of co-maintainers, all of Lullabot
• Module features and usage
  • Allows a site builder to categorize the content types and present them in a list or grid view
  • Each content type can be a assigned a thumbnail and/or icon, to give content creators a visual idea of the options available to them, in addition to an extended description field
  • Also an ability to assign a “weight” to each content type, to control the order in which it will display, within its category
  • Also a Gin Type Tray module available to the Type tray look better when used with the Gin admin theme
  • Listeners may remember our discussion of the Schema.org Blueprints module back in episode. That project includes a schemadotorg_type_tray module to provide its own Type Tray integration

Today we are talking about Drupal 7 EOL, Backdrop CMS, and Upgrade strategy from Drupal 7 with guests Jen Lampton & Laryn Kragt Bakker. We’ll also cover Acquia Migrate: Accelerate as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/419

Topics

• When is Drupal 7 EoL
• If someone is on Drupal 7 what are their options
• If someone does not have the resources to upgrade to Drupal 10 what can they do
• Can someone stay on Drupal 7 after EoL
• What is Backdrop CMS
• Listener question - James: Some people have mentioned that Backdrop has changed significantly since forking, does this affect upgrading from drupal 7
• Listener question - James: Will there be another fork
• How can Backdrop help people get off of Drupal 7
• Tell us a bit about Backdrop’s annual online event
• Is Backdrop negatively affecting Drupal 10 adoption
• How does someone get involved with Backdrop
• What are some big features on the Backdrop roadmap

Resources

• Drupal 7 EOL
• Backdrop CMS
• How to get involved
• GitHub
• Zulip
• Flightpath CLI
• compare d7 -> d10 vs d7 -> backdrop
  • https://backdropcms.org/news/why-we-moved-two-stanford-websites-to-backdrop-cms
  • https://atendesigngroup.com/articles/making-case-drupal-7-backdrop-cms-upgrade
• Drupal 7 soft landing

Guests

Laryn Kragt Bakker - atendesigngroup.com - laryn

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Jen Lampton - jenlampton.com - jenlampton

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Acquia Migrate: Accelerate

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to add a layer of automation to Drupal’s migrate API, to simplify the process of migrating content and site architecture from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in July 2020 by Aaron Winborn-award winner webchick
• Versions available:
  • 1.8.0 release which works with Drupal 9
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained - latest release, its first as open source, was in the last week
• Number of open issues:
  • 3 issues, none of which are bugs, and all labeled as fixed
• Usage stats:
  • None, officially
• Maintainer(s):
  • Current release by Wim Leers, a longtime Drupal contributor and core subsystem maintainer
• Module features and usage
  • The goal of Migrate Accelerate is to make Drupal core’s migrate API something that can be used by less technical users to migrate a Drupal 7 site to a modern version of Drupal
  • Relies on an Acquia CLI command to analyze your Drupal 7 site, so it can generate a composer.json file using an existing matrix of hundreds mappings from legacy modules to modern Drupal equivalents, including patches
  • That composer file becomes the basis for your migrated site, into which it will begin to migrate your content architecture
  • It provides a dashboard that lists out the various kinds of content found on the origin site, with an ability to control the order in which the migrations will be performed
  • At any point it’s possible to see a live preview the content that’s been migrated, within the same UI
  • There’s also a drush command to trigger the same process, which actually runs more efficiently but still allows for live preview
  • If you want to get an estimate on how much of your Drupal 7 site can be migrated automatically, there is also a Flightpath report you can generate (using a drush command) which is an HTML file that summarizes how much of your Drupal 7 site can be migrated automatically
  • Migrate Accelerate used to be available only to Acquia customers and partners, but with this new release anyone in the community can use it to help them migrate their Drupal 7 site forward

Today we are talking about Inclusive Hiring Practices, Disability Employment Awareness Month, and tips to improve your hiring practices with our guest Donna Bungard. We’ll also cover Organigrams as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/418

Topics

• When is National Disability Awareness Month
• What is the definition of Inclusive in this context
• Why are inclusive hiring practices important
• Have organizations been doing well with this
• What is disclosure and how can it impact people
• What can organizations do to be more inclusive
• What tools can be used to improve hiring practices
• Whose responsibility is it to address issues
• Any closing thoughts

Resources

National Disability Employment Awareness Month
Snow shovel cartoon
Curb-cut effect

Race after technology
Center for accessible technology
Apple assistive tech

Guests

Donna Bungard - @dbungard

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Jen Lampton - jenlampton.com - jenlampton

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Organigrams

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever needed a way to define and display an org chart on your Drupal website? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2016 by PatrickScheffer
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.3, 8.x-1.3, and 8.x-2.3 versions, the last two of which can be used with Drupal 8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Maintenance fixes only
• Number of open issues:
  • 2 issues, neither are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 377 sites
• Module features and usage
  • The module works by extending core’s taxonomy hierarchy management
  • You can organize who reports to who with a simple drag-and-drop, the same as any taxonomy hierarchy. For anyone who hasn’t used those, it would be basically the same as managing a menu structure
  • Once created, an organigram can be viewed as a dedicated page, a block, and a token
  • The 2.x branch uses Flexbox to achieve a CSS-only presentation that removes the need for any Javascript
  • Appears to have been built to serve the needs of the Dutch House of Representatives
  • I haven’t tested it, but I suspect that for a site with a very large organigram they need to build, tools like Client Side Hierarchical Select, built to make managing large taxonomies easier, are likely to work with Organigrams too

Today we are talking about The Recipes Initiative, the future of install profiles, if distros are still a thing, and answering a bunch of listener questions with our guest Jim Birch. We’ll also cover Quick Links Kit as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/417

Topics

• What are recipes
• How do you use recipes
• Is it a module, configuration or something else
• How do recipes compare to install profiles
• Are you stuck with them
• What happens if the config is changed
• Are there namespace collisions
• How do recipes compare with Distributions
• Can you include content
• Listener James: Can recipes uninstall modules
• Can we use recipes now
• When will recipes be in core
• Can recipes be used by tests
• Listener Andy: Can recipes and startkits interact
• Can themes require recipes
• Listener Matthieu: How do recipes compare with Symfony recipes
• Listener James: How easy will it be to make custom recipes
• Listener Matthieu: Should contrib maintainers be watching recipes
• How can we get involved

Resources

• Jim’s Design 4 Drupal Talk Recipes
• Recipes Drupal Project Page
• Strategic Initiative Page
• Cioppino
• php core/scripts/drupal recipe PATH/TO/RECIPE
• config actions issue
• infrastructure project meeting thread
• Kevin Quillen blog post - Create Recipes

Guests

Jim Birch - @jimbirch

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Jen Lampton - jenlampton.com - jenlampton

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Quick Links Kit

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever needed to add a set of quick links, essentially visual navigation prompts, to the home page or section pages of your Drupal site?
  • Quick Links Kit (different from Quicklink module created by last week’s guest, Mike Herschel)
• Brief history
  • How old: I created in Apr 2021
• Versions available:
  • 1.0.6 that supports Drupal 8, 9, and 10, and 2.0.1 that supports only D10
• Maintainership
  • Sporadically maintained, but a pretty simple module
• Number of open issues:
  • 1, and it’s not a bug
• Usage stats:
  • 1 site
• Maintainer(s):
  • Me!
• Module features and usage
  • The module is really just a set of configuration, with an optional submodule that sets everything up, including the placement of the block on the home page, for sites using Olivero as their theme, so it’s perfect for a fresh install of Drupal
  • It allows for SVG icons to be set for each link, and sets their fill to inherit from the link style
  • The links can be created and managed without leaving the page on which they’re used, by using the settings tray, though it would be a quick configuration change to use a modal or a separate page instead, if preferred.
  • The 2.0 version also makes use of Drupal 10’s new responsive grid views display, so if you’ve wanting to try that out, this is an easy way to get started
  • I thought this module was appropriate for today’s episode because it’s an example of a module that will be a recipe once the infrastructure for them is ready. That said, the Olivero submodule does currently contain a little CSS to improve the display of the links, but that could easily be copied into your site’s custom theme.

On today’s show we are talking about Single Directory Components in Drupal, How they differ from Web Components, and what are their benefits with guest Mateu Bosch & Mike Herchel. We’ll also cover Component Libraries: Theme Server as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/416

Topics

• What are Single Directory Components?
• Where did the idea of adding Single Directory Components to Drupal come from?
• Where does support for this stand in Drupal Core? Fully supported? Still need a contrib module?
• How do they differ from Web Components? (Mike will take this one)
• How does Single Directory Components make Drupal Theme development easier?
• What is the point of creating a schema for an SDC?
• Can modules or themes override SDCs? How?
• Can SDC be integrated into component library systems like Storybook? How?
• Any other helpful contrib modules that enhance SDCs?
• Does this at all help a headless?
• How can someone get involved or help contribute to Single Directory Components?

Resources

Single Directory Components
https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc
JSON Schema
https://json-schema.org/
SDC Display
https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc_display
SDC Styleguide
https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc_styleguide
Cl Devel
https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_devel
CL Server
https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_server
CL Generator
https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_generator
SDC Documentation
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3345922
Mike’s blog
https://herchel.com/
SDC Slack Channel (Components channel in Drupal Slack)
#components
https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C4EDNHFGS
Drupal Board Elections
https://www.drupal.org/association/board/elections

Guests

Mike Herchel - herchel.com @mikeherchel
Mateu Bosch - mateuaguilo.com

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

Module of the Week

with Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Component Libraries: Theme Server

This module lets you use component libraries, like Storybook, in your Drupal project, without Twig.js!

Today we are talking about Front End Performance, Common Front End Issues, and Ways to test and fix said issues with guest Andy Blum. We’ll also cover Webp Fallback Image as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/415

Topics

• How do we break down front end performance
• How do we measure front end performance
• What are web vitals
  • Standard, objective measurements
  • First/Largest contentful paint
  • Cumulative layout shift
  • Time to Interactive/First Input Delay/Time To Next Paint/Total Blocking Time
• What are some common client side performance problems
  • “Flickering”
  • “Slow loading”
  • Image size/resolution issues
  • Render-blocking resources
  • Screen jitters
  • Memory leaks
  • Memory Bloat
• How do tracking scripts affect performance
• Tools to help identify and resolve
• Drupal front end performance

Resources

• Talking Drupal #373 - Performance, Privacy, and the Open Web
• Web Vitals
• Orders of magnitude 100 - 1000 ms
• Orders of 10 source
  • Instant
  • Near instant
  • Subsequent
• Talking Drupal #368 - Image Optimization
• MDN - How Browsers work
• Prefetch
• Web Page Test
• Front End Performance in Drupal
• architecture.lullabot.com article

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
WebP fallback image

• Brief description:
  • Do you want your Drupal site to generate WebP images in the most optimal way? There are a number of modules for that, today we’re going to talk about…
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jun 2022 by pedrop
  • Versions available: 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 versions available, both of which support Drupal 8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
• Number of open issues
  • 3, 2 of which are bugs
• Has test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • Almost 252 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Most recent release is by dj1999
• Module features and usage
  • Anyone using testing tools like Lighthouse will have seen suggestions to use modern image formats like WebP, and with good reason. They allow for much smaller image files at the same quality, which means a better user experience and less bandwidth used by both the server and the visitor. WebP is a natural choice because it enjoys over 95% browser support, but many sites still care about that other 5%
  • Drupal core added its own support for webp in 9.2, but without a fallback image, so browsers that don’t have WebP support have been out of luck
  • Contrib modules have allowed for generating a webp image and a jpeg fallback, to allow for universal support. Typically they have worked by creating the WebP variant from the output of a core image style, so after an image has been saved as something like a jpeg. That means the resulting WebP can’t compress as well, and can show compression artifacts
  • WebP Fallback Image is different because it allows Drupal core to generate the WebP image from the source file, and then creates the jpeg fallback.
  • Also worth noting that this module only creates the jpeg fallback when it’s requested, so it doesn’t add to the storage of your website unless it’s needed

Today we are talking about The Future of Content Management, What we see for Drupal in the future, and How AI might factor in with guest John Doyle. We’ll also cover Access Policy as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/414

Topics

• Digital Polygon
• Content Management can mean many things, what is our definition
• What factors contribute to the changes moving to a more centralized model
• How do organizations manage content for different channels
• Where do design systems collide with content management
• Why is Drupal a good fit
• How does headless fit in
• Maintaining content architecture long term
• Drupal adaptations over the next 5 years

Resources

• Talking Drupal #409 - Data Lakes
• Hey everyone! Our friends at the Linux Foundation are offering Talking Drupal Listeners 25% off on any e-learning course, certification exam or bundle. Good from August 22-Sept 30, 2023. With discount code LFDrupal25 Please note Bootcamps, ILTs and FinOps courses are excluded… Again that code is LFDrupal25 and you can use that at https://training.linuxfoundation.org/ Thank you to the linux foundation!
• Flexible Permissions

Guests

John Doyle - digitalpolygon.com _doyle_

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Access Policy

• Brief description:
  • Does your Drupal site need a flexible way to manage access to content? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2022
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-beta1, works with D9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, most recent release was in the past week
• Number of open issues:
  • 4, none of which are bugs
• Test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • 12 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • partdigital
• Module features and usage
  • Allows a site builder to define different policies that can be used to manage content access or editing capabilities based on various factors, all within the Drupal UI
  • Criteria can include field values of the content, field values on the current user’s profile, the time of day, and more
  • The policy can restrict access, for example view acces to only selected people or people with a certain role or field value on their profile. I
  • Once defined, policies can be assigned manually, or automatically applied based on configurable selection criteria
  • The project page describes this as an Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) architecture, which complements Drupal core’s Role Based Access Control that our listeners are probably familiar with
  • I used it for the first recently, and found that given the power and flexibility the module provides, it’s great that it has in-depth documentation
  • I filed a couple of issues (technically half of the open issues) and partdigital was very responsive
  • The module does also provide an API for defining your own policy type, access rules, rule widgets, and more. So if you need a setup even more custom that what Access Policy can provide out of the box, it’s likely you can extend it to meet your individual use case

On today’s show we are talking about The Drupal Coffee Exchange, How it got started, and How it keeps going with guest AmyJune Hineline.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/413

Topics

• What’s new with AmyJune
• What is the Drupal Coffee Exchange
• How did it start
• Who started it
• Where was the first Drupal Coffee Exchange
• How do you participate
  • Live
  • Mail
• How is it live
• Does it have to be ground or whole bean
• Listener question: Stephen - How can it be added to a camp
• What was your favorite coffee received
• What was your favorite coffee given
• John’s first experience
• Brick of Shame
• When is the next Coffee Exchange
• Where is the schedule
• Favorite type of coffee

Resources

• Our friends at the Linux Foundation are offering Talking Drupal Listeners 25% off on any e-learning course, certification exam or bundle. Good from August 22-Sept 30, 2023. With discount code LFDrupal25 … Please note Bootcamps, ILTs and FinOps courses are excluded.
• Join the Quarterly Coffee Exchange:
• Coffee Exchange Slack
  • #coffee-exchange
• Equator Coffee
• Spinn Coffee Maker
  • Enter the coupon code at checkout, or follow the link below to receive $100 off your Spinn. SMDNI120337 (Affiliate link)
  • https://www.spinn.com/order?code=SMDNI120337
• Vertigo
• Dave’s Coffee
• Link to Brian Perry’s Video
  • https://drupal.slack.com/files/U24L61M26/F03DEUBDPJN/image_from_ios.jpg
• https://www.brickofsha.me/
• Next stops for the Coffee Exchange:
  • DrupalCon Lille
  • Your camp!
• Drupal Coffee Exchange Social
  • Twitter @DrupalCoffee
  • Mastadon https://drupal.community/@DrupalCoffee
  • Hashtag: #DrupalCoffeeExchange

Guests

AmyJune Hineline - volkswagenchick

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

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Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Coffee

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to quickly search your Drupal admin UI for the specific page you need to get to? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2011
  • Covered as MOTW back in episode #45
  • Versions available: 8.x-1.3 (D9 & 10), 7.x-2.3
• Maintainership
  • Number of open issues: 53 open, 13 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
  • Does have test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • Almost 31,000 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Michaelmol, who appears to have created the module in his first year on drupal.org, now almost 13 years ago
• Module features and usage
  • With a simple keystroke, (option-d or alt-d) you can start your search, and then see suggestions as you type
  • Can use the arrow keys to move between suggestions
  • Listeners who have used Mac apps like Alfred or Spotlight will be familiar with the experience
  • A very fast way to move between different places in your Drupal admin
  • Also includes :add as a quick way to add content of a specific type
  • Provides a hook you can use to define your own commands
  • There is a Coffee Extras module that adds more commands, but it doesn’t work with Drupal 10 and is marked as no longer developed
  • Also worth noting that the Gin admin theme comes with built-in optimization and formatting for Coffee, so you can enjoy Gin and Coffee together

Today we are talking about Lando, the release cycle, and Lando 4.0 with our guest Aaron Feledy.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/412

Topics

• About Aaron
• What is Lando
• Best type of development for Lando
• Listener Q: Stephen - I Recently switched to ddev for Mutagen, will Lando support that in the future
• Release schedule
• Development process
• Favorite features
• When is 4.0 and what is in it
• Best reasons to choose Lando
• Adoption rate of Lando
• Listener Q: Stephen - Nic switched from Lando to DDEV, why and what features would he like to see in Lando to go back
• Listener Q: Matthieu - I use Lando and I am trying to convince coworkers to use it as well, any advice

Resources

• Lando
• Roadmap
• Lando Docs

Guests

Aaron Feledy lando.dev - Arrow

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

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Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Workflow Participants

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to assign moderated content to specific users to edit or approve it before publishing? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2017
  • Versions available: 8.x-2.6 (D8 & D9), 3.0.0-alpha1 (D9 & D10)
• Maintainership
  • Seeking a new maintainer
• Number of open issues:
  • 17 open, 3 of which are bugs
• Does have test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • 9 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Jheadstrom, who maintains his own stable of modules, including a number in the Message stack
• Module features and usage
  • Creates a new tab on nodes, on which a content creator (or anyone with the necessary permission) can assign one or more editors or reviewers
  • Can specifically designate which roles can be editors or reviewers
  • Editors have the ability to make changes and transition content between states, while reviewers can only move between states
  • For each transition in your workflow, can specify if editors and/or approvers are able to perform the transition
  • Can optionally send a notification email to workflow participants as they are added to a piece of content
  • I used to have a boss who liked to say “The surest way to starve a dog is to put two people in charge of feeding it”, so the idea of specifically assigning individuals to individual pieces of content is potentially very powerful

Today we are talking about D.o Issue Etiquette with Tim Lehnen.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/411

Topics

• Episode 361 Credit
• Most recent changes
• AI
• How should project maintainers respond
• How should the community respond
• Consequences
• Who developed the policy
• Who is responsible for enforcement
• How do these policies help maintainers
• Anything missing
• Future updates

Resources

• Talking Drupal #361 - Drupal Credit System
• Issue Etiquette
• Abuse of the Credit System
• Unhelpful comments
• Site moderator queue
• CWG issues
• Introduction to Contribution Best Practices for Organizations
• Slack Channel #contribution-recognition-feedback
• Drupal Association Membership

Guests

Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett

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Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted a simple way to view and store information about the overall health of your Drupal website? There’s a module for that!
• Module name/project name:
  • Site
• How old:
  • Project originally created in Sep 2007, current project looking like it took over the namespacex in June 2023
• Versions available:
  • 1.10.0-alpha11 works with D8 and above
• Maintainership
  • Currently very actively maintained, last release was in the past couple of weeks
• Does not have issue enabled, project page says to open issues against ox project, which currently has no open issues
• Usage stats:
  • 3 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Jon Pugh, a founding member of the Aegir project, among many others
• Module features and usage
  • The Site module stores information about the health of your site in a fieldable, revisionable entity
  • Provides a detailed history of the state of your site, including changes to configuration with a log of who changed what, where
  • Will include data on Drupal and PHP version, Git information, and more
  • Health can be based on the core Status report, the Site Audit module report, or a custom SiteState plugin
  • Can display an overall status indicator in the toolbar, so as a site owner or maintainer you don’t have to go to the Site Status page to see it
  • That page will display more detailed information, including the “reason” for the current status, the site’s history, and more
  • Integrates with the Site Manager module (also by Jon Pugh) which provides a UI for monitoring and managing a portfolio of Drupal sites
  • You can try out Site and Site Manager as part of the Operations project (machine name ox) as a Lando-based local setup of four sites, of which one provides a dashboard for the other three

Today we are talking about This and That with our Talking Drupal hosts.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/410

Topics

• Module Builder
• Drupal 10.2
  • Field UI / Admin UX
• Augmentor
• State API
• main / 11.x
• Changes to layout builder

Resources

• Module Builder Session at Drupal Dev Days
• Driesnote
• Augmentor
• AI
• Core 11.x/main branching
• Layout Builder

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett
Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

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Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Responsive Theme Preview

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to give content creators the power to preview how their posts will look on mobile devices, even before publishing them? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2013
  • Versions available: 2.1.1 for D9 & D10, 8.x-1.1 for D8 & D9
• Maintainership
  • Officially maintenance fixes only, but the last release was in the past week
  • Number of open issues: 21, only 2 of which are bugs on the 2.x branch
  • Test coverage? Y
• Usage stats:
  • 8,258 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Last couple of releases by Rajeshreeputra, but has a team of maintainers
• Module features and usage
  • Adds a dropdown to the secondary toolbar to select a device whose display resolution you want to preview for the current page
  • Preview launches in a modal overlay, and can be rotated, to see the landscape view
  • The list of devices can be configured to keep up with the most popular devices as they change over time, including phones and tablets
  • If you’re not using the admin toolbar, also offers a block to access the preview links
  • Not a perfect representation of how the page will look on a mobile device, but a useful way to see a quick approximation of how a page will look on different screen sizes

Today we are talking about Data Lakes with Melissa Bent & April Sides.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/409

Topics

• What is a data lake
• Does it have to be NoSQL
• How do organizations use data lake
• How does RedHat use the data lake
• How do you maintain it
• How do you make changes to the data lake
• Who manages Mongo
• How big does it have to be to be considered a data lake
• Why not Solr
• What Drupal modules
• Communication of changes
• Gotchas?

Resources

• Create an Animated GIF From Video On A Mac
• Drupal modules
  • External data source
  • Allow Only One
  • Pattern Kit
  • Search api
  • Mongodb
  • Entity Browser
  • Mongodb Data Lake (Indexing module)
• Presentation
• Where is this used?
  • https://access.redhat.com/products
  • https://developers.redhat.com/learn
  • https://cloud.redhat.com/learn
• Rendered issue
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api/issues/3274158
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3220172

Guests

Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka
April Sides - weekbeforenext

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - timplunkett

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Tagify

• Brief description:
  • Provides an entity reference widget that’s more user friendly: visually styles as tags (without showing the reference ID), drag to sort, and more
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Mar 2023
• Versions available:
  • 1.0.19, which works wth Drupal >8.8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release in the past week
• Number of open issues:
  • 4, one of which is a bug
• Usage stats:
  • 177 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • gxleano (David Galeano), who I got to meet in person at Drupal Dev Days
• Module features and usage
  • Tagify is a popular JS library, so this module is a Drupal integration for that
  • Features in the module include deactivating labels when the field’s max number of entries has been reached, allowing the creation of new tags when the field has been configured to allow that, and so on
  • Will automatically disallow duplicate tags
  • Includes a User List submodule specifically for user reference fields, which also shows the user’s profile pic in the tag
  • Project page has animated GIFs that demonstrate how many of these features work
  • A module I started using on my own blog, nice and simple UX. I could see the drag to sort be really useful, for example if you wanted the first term reference to be used in a pathauto pattern

Today we are talking about The Drupal Association with Tim Doyle.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/408

Topics

• Tell us about yourself Tim
• Why Drupal
• What perspective do you bring
• Strategic plan
• Leadership
• Measurements
• Drupal the project vs Drupal the community
• Where will the DA be in 5 years
• Will Drupal be around in 20 years
• Favorite aspect of the strategic plan

Resources

• Director of Philanthropy
• Burnout
• Pitch-burgh
• Alex Moreno
• New Core Product Manager
  • Lauri Eskola (lauriii)
• Tenure of ED/CEOs since formation of DA
  • Jacob Redding
    • March 2010 - February 2013
    • ~3 years
  • Holly Ross
    • February 2013 - May 2016
    • 3 years 3 months
  • Megan Sanicki
    • May 2016 - September 2018
    • 1½ years
  • (interim) Tim Lehnen
    • September 2018 - June 2019
    • 9 months
  • Heather Rocker
    • June 2019 - March 2022
    • 2 years 9 months
  • (interim) Angie Sabin
    • March 2022 - October 2022
    • 8 months
  • Tim Doyle
    • October 2022 - Present (July 2023)
    • 9 months
  • As of February 2026 Tim will be longest-tenured

Guests

Tim Doyle - @TimDoyleMPA

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ActivityPub

• Brief description:
  • Implements the ActivityPub protocol on your site, so readers can follow and respond to content on Fediverse sites like Mastodon, and in the future maybe Threads?
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2019
• Versions available:
  • 1.0.0-alpha17, works with Drupal 9.4 and 10, release in Mar 2023
• Actively maintained
• Minimally maintained
• Number of open issues:
  • 43 open issues, only 2 bugs but 1 of those fixed in the past week
• Usage stats:
  • 11 sites using it according to drupal.org
• Maintainer(s):
  • Created and maintained by swentel, who also created a module for publishing Drupal content to the Nostr network
• Module features and usage
  • Effectively allows your site to act as a Fediverse server: Mastodon, Pleroma, Picelfed, etc.
  • Users who enable ActivityPub for their account have created @user@domain in the Fediverse
  • At that point the Drupal UI provides some common features of a social client: notifications about subscribers, and so on
  • Provides plugins to define user actions. Default plugins are ‘Accept’, ‘Follow’, ‘Delete’, ‘Undo’ and ‘Inbox reply’, but a site could add or enable others
  • Based on the documentation it sounds like if you update an entity (e.g. change the title) you can trigger an Update activity, which is in stark contrast to a certain bird platform
  • There’s quite a bit more in the module’s README file if anyone wants to better understand its capabilities

Today we are talking about How to improve Drupal Search with Sean Walsh.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/407

Topics

• Drupal core search improvement
• External search backends
  • Database
  • Solr
  • Elasticsearch
  • Opensearch
  • Algolia
  • SearchStax
• Common Modules
  • Facets
  • Search API Autocomplete
  • Search API Exclude
• Improve search for users
• Segmented vs Unified search
• A11y tips
• Common pitfalls

Resources

• Search api solr boost by term
• Search exclude
• Search api autocomplete
• Facets
• Database
• Solr
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_solr
  • https://solr.apache.org/downloads.html
• ElasticSearch
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/elasticsearch_search_api
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/elasticsearch_connector/
  • https://www.elastic.co/
• OpenSearch
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_opensearch
  • https://opensearch.org/
• Algolia
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_algolia
  • https://www.algolia.com
• SearchStax
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/searchstax
  • https://www.searchstax.com
• Issues for rendered html
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3220172
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api/issues/3274158

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

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Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ECA Commerce
Provides events to the ECA module from all of the commerce core and submodules.

Today we are talking about The Drupal 10 Development Cookbook with Kevin Quillen & Matt Glaman.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/406

Topics

• What is the Drupal 10 Development Cookbook
  • Contrast with Selwyn Polit’s Drupal At Your Fingertips
• Who is the book for
• How much experience to start
• What should a reader expect to get out of reading the book
• Core or contrib
• Why write the book
• Book writing process
• Co-writing
• Why a physical book
  • Is there a digital copy
  • Does it get updated
• How long did it take to write
  • How did you write it
• How did you break Drupal down to 14 chapters
• Most surprising thing you had to research
• Are you or the publisher going to translate the book
• Would you write another book
• Where is the best place to get the book

Resources

• Drupal 10 Development Cookbook (Amazon)
• Drupal 10.1 Change Records
• Single Directory Components DrupalCon Session
• Blog post about checkbox
  • https://herchel.com/articles/disabling-twig-caching-just-got-helluva-lotta-easier-101
  • https://mglaman.dev/blog/simplifying-frontend-developer-experience-drupal-click-butto
• Talking Drupal #398 - Drupal At Your Fingertips Book
• Driesnote (time stamp 42:30)

Guests

Kevin Quillen - @kevinquillen
Matt Glaman- @nmdmatt

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Drupal 10.1
The module of the week this week is “Drupal 10.1"

Today we are talking about Secrets Management with Dwayne McDaniel.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/405

Topics

• What is new with you?
• Secrets Management
• Why it is important
• Best practices
• Secrets in Drupal
• Common errors
• What does rotating mean
• Best way to rotate
• How often should you rotate
• Git Guardian

Resources

• Talking Drupal 187 - Dwayne McDaniel
• MidCamp
• GitKraken
• Git Guardian
• Lockr
• Hashicorp
• Uber key leak
• Toyota
• AstraZeneca
• Verizon dbir databreach
• Azure keyvault youtube video
• Have I Been Pwned
• State of secrets report
• Dark reading
• Repl.it
• Key Drupal Module
• Lockr Drupal Module
• akeyless

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Security Review
Automatically tests for many easy-to-make site configuration and setup mistakes that can make a Drupal site insecure.

Today we are talking about Drupal Content Modeling with our hosts.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/404

Topics

• What is Drupal Content Modeling
• How does content modeling help with a project
• What types of entities do you model
• Who should maintain the content model
• Best practices
• What questions should you ask
• How to decide what type of field
• What to do when you get it wrong
• What tools do you use

Resources

• Talking Drupal 78 - Content Modeling

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

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