Mon, 10 February 2025
Today we are talking about The open university initiative, Drupal in academia, and Fostering Drupal Education with guest Jean-Paul Vosmeer. We’ll also cover Artisan as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/488 Topics - What is the Drupal Open University Initiative
- How did this initiative start
- Why is it important to get Drupal into Universities and Classrooms
- What stage is the initiative at
- Is Drupal currently in any universities
- Is it better to approach schools or professors directly
- How is the curriculum being developed
- What are the main differences between this initiative and resources like Drupalize.me, Drupal at your fingertips, or Drupal TB
- What is next on the roadmap
- Where does Drupal CMS fit in
- Where does the initiative need help
- How can someone get involved
Resources Guests Jean-Paul Vosmeer - reactonline.nl jpvos Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu - Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to use the Drupal UI to configure numerous aspects of your Drupal site’s look and feel? There’s a theme for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Sep 2024 by alejandro cabarcos though recent releases are by crzdev, both of metadrop
- Versions available: 1.3.8, which support Drupal 10 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, release in the last week
- Security coverage
- Documentation: no, but a lengthy README that includes developer notes
- Number of open issues: 7 open issues, 5 of which are bugs, but 3 are postponed
- Usage stats:
- Module features and usage
- After installing the theme, there is a drush command to generate a subtheme, or you can manually duplicate an included starterkit. You also need to run a couple of npm commands to pull in all the front end libraries, and build the CSS files
- Once you set the subtheme as your site default, you can customize a variety of ways the site looks, including the fonts and weights to use for heading and default text, the colour and padding of various elements, border weights, border radius, and more.
- The customizations are grouped into tabs. The base tab includes a colour palette, base font, and link styling. Additional tabs include page layout, header, responsive, and footer, also breadcrumb, headings, display headings, buttons, forms, and components
- Artisan also provides a toggle to expose extra customization options for dark mode, so if you want your site to give users the option to switch back and forth between normal and dark, this is extremely powerful, but does make for some very long configuration pages
- You can create and save presets, for easy creation of reusable palettes
- There is also a companion Artisan Styleguide module that provides a page that previews the theme style applied to an extensive list of elements
- Last year I was considering making a more configurable subtheme of Olivero for the Event Platform initiative, so I was excited to read about Artisan in a metadrop blog post we’ll include in the show notes
Direct download: td-488-libsyn.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 3 February 2025
Today we are talking about Single Directory Components, How best to work with them, and their future with Drupal with guest Brian Perry. We’ll also cover Embedded Content as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/487 Topics - What are Single Directory Components (SDC)
- Why the switch to SDCs
- What is there in common between decoupled and SDCs
- Can you give us an overview of your workflow
- Common pitfalls
- How should someone get started working with SDCs
- Does it work with Paragraphs and Blocks?
- Does it need to be all at once
- How do you think SDCs will evolve
- Do you see this leading to more Decoupled front ends
- What contrib modules make working with SDCs easier
Resources Guests Brian Perry - brianperry.dev brianperry Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Weston - scott-weston MOTW Correspondent Jacob Rockowitz - jrockowitz.com jrockowitz - Embedded Content
- Brief description:
- The Embedded Content module allows site builders to select, create, and update content embedded within HTML inside CKEditor.
- For developers, the EmbeddedContent plugin is like a Block plugin without context.
- There is a demo on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOn-P3Q5Gg
- There is support embedding of single directory component in progress. Conceptually, this is already possible, the same way one would render a single directory component in Block plugin.
- Brief history
- The concept and code started as the CKEditor5 Embedded Content module, created in August 2022.
- In October 2023, CKEditor5 Embedded Content was renamed to Embedded Content.
- Versions available:
- 2.0.3 - January 22nd, 2025
- Works with Drupal: ^9 ^10 ^11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained? yes
- Security coverage? Yes
- Test coverage? Yes
- Documentation? Video and an example module
- Number of open issues:
- All issues: 6 open, 17 total
- Bug report: 6 open, 15 total
- Usage stats:
- 509 sites report using this module
- 1,263 sites report using this module (using old version)
- Maintainer(s):
- Module features and usage
- Insert themed content in Ckeditor5 using Drupal plugins without having to write rich HTML and CSS
- Render these results directly in the CKEditor
- Create 'inline' embedded content that sits inline with the text, like footnotes.
- Provides
- Embedded Content plugin
- CKeditor 5 plugin.
- Ecosystem
- Embedded Content: Examples for examples of how to build your own plugins.
- Embedded Content: Entity for embedding content entities
- Embedded Content: SDC for single directory components (under development)
- Potential Challenges
- Example of the embedded content tag.
- <embedded-content data-plugin-config="{"text":"Some quote","spoken_by_character":"Some one","align":"center"}" data-plugin-id="schemadotorg_quotation" data-button-id="default"> </embedded-content>
- Translations via TMS (data is serialized via an attribute)
Direct download: td-487-libsyn.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 27 January 2025
Today we are talking about GraphQL, Drupal Decoupled, and What to do with them with guest Jesus Manuel Olivas. We’ll also cover CORS UI as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/486 Topics - What is GraphQL
- How do you use GraphQL with Drupal
- Would you use GraphQL without a headless theme
- Do you need additional server requirements
- What are some of your favorite GraphQL modules
- What caused the change from v3 to v4
- What is meant by Drupal Decoupled
- What are the best use cases
- How do you handle caching and performance
- How do you handle roles and permissions
- Do you think AI has made decoupled more interesting
Resources Guests Jesus Manuel Olivas - drupal-decoupled.octahedroid.com jmolivas Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Weston - scott-weston MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu - Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to control your site’s Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (aka CORS) configuration, directly within the Drupal admin UI? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Sep 2016 by Sam Becker (sam152), a prolific module maintainer in his own right, though the most recent release is by Matt Glaman, who has been on this show and will need no introduction for many of our listeners
- Versions available: 8.x-1.2 which supports Drupal 9, 10, and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Number of open issues: 2 open issues, 1 of which is a bug, and also has a patch available
- Usage stats:
- Module features and usage
- By default cross-origin requests to Drupal applications will be denied. Since Drupal 8.2 you can add a section to your site’s services.yml file to enable responses, and specify what headers, methods, and origins should be supported
- This module provides a form within Drupal to control these values. This could be helpful if, for example, these values need to change on a frequent basis, or for less technical users who are experimenting with a headless architecture.
- I should note that the bug mentioned earlier throws a fatal error in PHP 8, but is a simple fix. So if you want to try out this module, make sure you apply the patch.
Direct download: td-486-libsyn.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 20 January 2025
Today we are talking about AI Autonomy, How it could help Drupal Development, and AI in the future with guest Jay Callicott. We’ll also cover AI Agents as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/485 Topics - What got you interested in this topic
- What is meant by AI Autonomy
- You suggested in your blog post in the Drop Times that developers will manage AI can you elaborate
- AI coming for our jobs
- Drupal X
- Do decoupled sites have an advantage
- Is the future going to be all prompts
- Skill decay
- What would you say to a CEO thinking about replacing developers with AI
Resources Guests Jay Callicott - drupalninja99 Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Weston - scott-weston MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu - Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to leverage AI-powered tools to get information about or change the configuration of your website? There’s a module for that
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Aug 2024 by Marcus Johansson (marcus_johansson) of FreelyGive
- Versions available: 1.0.1 which supports Drupal 10.3 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained: that release was in the past week, and was part of the significant effort to get stable releases of the AI modules that are included in Drupal CMS
- Security coverage
- Documentation included within the module’s codebase
- Number of open issues: 30 open issues, 7 of which are bugs against the current branch
- Usage stats:
- 119 sites but I suspect that number will increase rapidly once people start using Drupal CMS
- Module features and usage
- In AI terminology, an agent is a system able to interact with its environment, collect data, and use the data to perform self-determined tasks
- The AI Agents module is a framework to provide agents that can perform a variety of functions in your Drupal website
- It depends on the AI module that we had Jamie Abrahams on the podcast to talk about back in episode #468
- The module includes plugins that provide three agents, namely:
- A Field Type Agent that can create or edit fields using the Field API, or answer questions about the fields your site has defined
- A Content Type agent that can create, edit, or answer questions about node types
- Taxonomy Agent that can do the same for your site’s vocabularies
- Anyone who saw the Driesnote AI demos from DrupalCon Barcelona or Singapore will have seen agents in action, in that example through interaction in a chatbot
- Technically, the plugins are UI agnostic, however. So theoretically you could trigger an agent in other ways. But today, AI Agents power the AI chatbot that you can use in the AI recipe that is included in the recently released Drupal CMS 1.0
- The AI Agents module also includes some submodules. An experimental form integration submodule adds UI elements to the interfaces for managing fields, content types, and vocabularies, an explorer submodule provides debugging tools, and an experimental Extra submodule provides agents for working with webforms and views. I have also seen a demo of some work underway to provide an ECA agent, so you may soon be able to get your Drupal site to build out ECA models based on the business logic you describe to it
Direct download: td-485-libsyn.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 13 January 2025
Topics - What is Drupal CMS
- Are we ready for the release
- Drupal 7
- What can people expect
- Will there be a launch button
- If someone uses the one click install how will they know what to do next
- What new features are there
- If someone tries the trial how do they get that site on a host
- When will Experience builder be out
- Are any vendors going to provide Drupal CMS as a service
- What is on the roadmap
- How can people get involved
Resources Guests Matthew Grasmick - grasmash Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Weston - scott-weston MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu - Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to have one or more fallbacks within your Drupal tokens? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in May 2018 by Daniel Beeke (danielbeeke) of the Netherlands
- Versions available: 2.3.0
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, current release appx 2 mo old
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Number of open issues: 8 open issues, 3 of which are bugs against the current branch
- Usage stats:
- Module features and usage
- After installing this module, your tokens can contain pipe-separated values, including a quote-enclosed literal string, and the token will return the first token or string that is not empty.
- This allows your tokens to have fallback values. For example you could have a token grab an event’s start date, or show “TBD” if the field is empty.
- The project page doesn’t explicitly say that a single token can have more than two token reference or string values, but it seems implied. If true, that would mean you could define a token that would grab from one field, look in a different field if the first one is empty, and return a string if neither field has a value.
- Because Token OR uses pipe characters to delineate between values, the module currently doesn’t support pipe characters within string values. This is one of the open issues, but there is a patch available.
- Previous guest host Josh Mitchell mentioned that he had never heard of this module until he noticed it is in the codebase for Drupal CMS, so I thought it would be ideal to talk about on this show, as an example of some lesser-known best practices that you’ll get out of the box when you start building sites on Drupal CMS.
Direct download: td-484-libsyn.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 6 January 2025
On today's show we are talking with Nic. This is our chance to learn more about our beloved Talking Drupal show host. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/XXX Topics - Talking Drupal
- NLightened Development
- Contribution
- Personal Background
- Interests
- Drupal
Guests Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Hosts Stephen Cross-@stephencross
Direct download: Talking_Drupal_483.mp3
Category: general
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