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Acquia Site Studio - A new friend of Content Marketers in Drupal!
Today, we are responsible for owning our digital experience. Site builders, developers, and marketers must be empowered to build and improve websites without being stuck in lengthy development cycles and slow processes. As one of the ear...
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Choosing the right Cache Backend
Optimising performance is critical for any high-traffic or feature-rich Drupal site. One of the most effective ways to improve responsiveness and reduce server load is by implementing a well-structured caching strategy. While Drupa...
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Drupal Front-End Grooming for Beginners
Front-end development takes care of the user interface on the website. It will manage the style, look and feel of the website and everything you see on a webpage, like forms, buttons, links, and more. It is the front-end developer's job ...
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Featured Contributor - Fall 2015
Open source contributions are one of the key performance indicators at QED42, be it contributing code or participating in various community initiatives; from Developers to Project managers we expect everyone to be act...
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Implementing User Authentication for Gatsby and Drupal Decoupled site.
Authentication is one of the most important functions in any application. This authentication process has to be secure enough such that data being transmitted should not be compromised. Authentication dictates what users are able to see ...
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Migrating relational data into Drupal paragraphs
In our last blog, we covered how to migrate data from a MySQL database into Drupal. That approach went without a hitch when transferring data from one source table into Drupal's content types. We're now considering another scenario—when ...
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Porting blocks to Drupal 8 plugins
Plugins in Drupal 8 might sound as a new term for those who have not worked with pluggable entities like ctools in Drupal 7. As the name states Plug + in, its something that can be attached & removed easily, can fit into any context....
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Upgrade to Drupal 8/9 or wait?
Go back in time and you’ll realize that every Drupal version upgrade has been drastically different from its predecessors. This caused compatibility issues and upgrading between major versions has always been a complicated task. Contribu...
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Acquia Site Studio - Low Code Enterprise-grade, Drupal website building platform
Low-code platforms have been slowly gaining popularity in the Marketing stack of organisations. Low-code essentially means being able to assemble UI of your Digital experience visually and often without the need for a dedicated...
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Claro & Olivero: uncovering new themes in Drupal 10
If you are a Drupal user, you are already aware of how the platform helps you curate amazing user experiences. Drupal 9 is already delivering rich user and editor experiences through the WYSIWYG text editor and the Media Library. It does...
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Drupal Podcast Feeds Integration: A Step-by-Step Guide
Managing and importing podcast feeds into your Drupal website can greatly enhance your content diversity and keep your audience engaged. In this guide, we'll walk through the process of setting up a podcast feed integration using Drupal,...
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Fetch all the results of a View | Drupal Views
There are scenarios when outside of a view we need to fetch results of any particular view. This is a very specific case when we just want the records compiled by Drupal Views. In that case obviously views api or views hooks are of no us...
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Improving Image Handling with ImageWidgetCrop: Drupal’s Image Optimization
Front-end developers are responsible for the presentation and layout of the images on a website's user interface. It is the front-end developer's job to provide a positive user experience by following best practices for image implementat...
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Migration from a MySQL source database in Drupal
Moving a MySQL database in Drupal is about keeping everything structured while upgrading, switching servers, or merging databases. A well-planned approach ensures a smooth and well-executed transition. Preparation is key: Drupal pr...
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Porting hook_init() to Drupal8
D8 beta is launched and its time to port modules from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. One of the very widely used hooks hook_init() has been removed from Drupal 8. This has been replaced in favor of Symfony Kernel and events. Hook_init() was was a...
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Upgrading from older Drupal versions to Drupal 10 | steps and solutions
Drupal 9 support ended on November 1st, 2023. Drupal 8 support ended on November 2, 2021, and Drupal 7 will no longer be supported after January 25, 2025. Maintaining the security and functionality of your website is important, and runni...
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Advanced Drupal Cache techniques
Drupal’s default caching is robust, but if you’re building a site that needs to scale, think global e-commerce or high-traffic news, you’ll need to go beyond the basics. Imagine a global online retailer handling millions of visits per da...
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Clear Field Values Module: Drupal 8
While trying to build a form, I found that it would be useful to have a one-click/touch option to clear text field values instead of selecting all the text and removing it. Even though this appears like a small issue, solving this w...
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Drush - drupal productivity messiah
Drush is a shell and command line interface for drupal where in you can do 90% of the routine tasks quicker; whether you are maintaining or developing a site. Drush is such an indispensable tool that you can really break down y...
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First Time Customer Discount using Drupal Commerce
E-commerce has become a way of life for most of us and with so many ecommerce portals competing it becomes important to attract new customers to your site. A way to attract the new customers is by incentivising their first purchase. E.g....
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Integrating Algolia search in Drupal and creating a search UI using InstantSearch.js
We invest significant time, effort, and passion in bringing a website and its content to the web. Thanks to Drupal, content creation and publishing have never been easier. Your website may contain hundreds of pages, offering substantial ...
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New Module - AddToCalendar Drupal Integration
Drupal sites with events functionality, often have to allow their users to export events in their personal calendars. On a recent Drupal 8 project we were asked to integrate 3rd party service Add to Calendar to their event...
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Programmatically updating URL aliases using Batch API in Drupal 8
Drupal has always had excellent support for human-friendly URL’s and SEO in general, from early on we have had the luxury of modules like pathauto offering options to update URL for specific entities, token support and bulk update of URL...
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Views Attach Library module: Drupal 8
The drupal_add_css(), drupal_add_js(), and drupal_add_library() were removed from Drupal 8 for various reasons. Thus to attach CSS or JS assets to views, nodes, etc., Drupal's #attached functionality had to be applied to 'attach' assets ...
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Advanced Services Tutorial
Coming from a Rails background, which is almost built to cater to services and REST API, Drupal was always gonna be tough when it came to services. Our hands were tied, as we knew we had to use Drupal because of the the advantages it off...
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Concurrent editing in Drupal 8: Possible or Not?
Drupal CMS offers a rich user interface and powerful content editing experience. There are a lot of contributed modules that enhance the system and its editing experience. One of the projects I was working with called for concurrent edit...
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Drush for Deployment and remote management
For those who haven't heard about drush before, i would recommend going through these videos before. For those who know about Drush, have you ever imagined how easy life would become if you could manage your staging sites without having ...
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Gatekeeping your code using git hooks
Git-hooks are scripts that Git runs after/before events like: commit, push and pull. These come in bundled with git itself. So, no need to download any package to use them. Couple of interesting git hooks from a developers perspective ar...
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Integration of SDC variations with Paragraphs
Single Directory Components (SDC) are like building blocks in Drupal. They bring together HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create something you see on a webpage. The idea is to keep everything related to a specific element in one place, maki...
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New Module - CSSgram recreating Instagram like filters for Drupal 8
CSSgram module supplements Drupal Image styling experience by making Instagram like filters available to your Drupal 8 site images, we do this with help of CSSgram library. Beauty of this module is, it simply uses css to beaut...
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REST API Explorations in Drupal 8 - Primer
To explore the RESTful nature of Drupal 8, we will need to enable the following modules: In Core Contributed RESTful Resources Every entity in D8 is a resource, which has an end point. Since, its RESTful, the same end-point is used for C...
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Visualizing data in Drupal with highcharts
Data visualization adds meaning to numbers and trends, simplifying the reading of difficult sets of data. Picture a Drupal site showing raw statistics—without visualization, the statistics could be daunting. Highcharts, an adaptabl...
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Alexa Account Linking and Custom Skill Model
At the point when Amazon launched Alexa, it changed the method for individuals connecting with the gadgets.Virtual assistants are quick getting to be ordinary in the home through items like Echo, Echo Show, Echo Dot, Echo Look and Amazon...
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Configuration management with Acquia Site Studio
Up till now, we have seen what Acquia Site Studio is and its power-packed features. Here in this blog, we are going to talk about the configuration feature of this product. The nightmare for any developer is to make the replica of their ...
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Enhance Drupal’s Layout Builder
The Layout Builder provides the ability to drag and drop site-wide blocks and content fields into regions within a given layout. While working with default views of a layout we believe there is considerable scope for improvement, giving ...
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Gatsby incremental build for self-hosted Drupal environments
Why is a Gatsby incremental build required? Every time you run a Gatsby build, the following steps are processed internally: For sites with a large amount of content, this process can be quiet time-consuming. For instance, you make...
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Introduction to Drupal caching for modern performance gains
Getting the most out of Drupal performance starts with caching Performance is a key part of delivering smooth, responsive digital experiences—and Drupal comes with powerful caching tools to help make that happen. When configured well, th...
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New Module - Referral Discount for Drupal Commerce
One of the popular Growth hacking technique for e-commerce and SaaS businesses is Referrals, which is to leverage your user's network to get new users by offering incentives / discounts. On a recent e-commerce project...
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Securing Cookie for 3rd Party Identity Management in Drupal
But what when we have a scenario where user’s information is being managed by a third party service and no user information is being saved on Drupal? And when the authentication is done via some other third party services? How can we man...
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What to expect from Drupal 8.8
Drupal 8 brought a lot of new features along with it. Making it easier to create rich and beautiful pages. Among the new features included in Drupal 8.7, we saw the stable built-in drag-and-drop Layout Builder, updated Media Library inte...
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Amplify your digital strategy with Drupal 9's future-focused architecture
Released on 3rd June 2020, Drupal 9 is the easiest upgrade in this decade. Drupal 9 had piqued the interest of all community members much before its release date. This unique next generation of Drupal is considered to be the most fl...
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Container Queries: Harnessing Responsive Design at the Component Level
Responsive web design has evolved over the years to adapt to a wide range of devices and screen sizes. A new addition to the toolkit is the concept of Container Queries, a powerful feature that allows components to adapt their styling ba...
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Exploring data integrity with API constraints in Drupal
Drupal's powerful and flexible architecture allows developers to create complex websites and applications. One key feature that makes Drupal robust is its support for constraints. Constraints are rules that enforce data validation and in...
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Google Assistant Integration with Drupal
The Rise of Assistants In last couple of years we have seen the rise of assistants, AI is enabling our lives more and more and with help of devices like Google Home and Amazon Echo, its now entering our living rooms and changing how we i...
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Introduction to Drupal recipes
Drupal is a versatile framework that is known for its capability and flexibility to build a wide range of websites. But, building a Drupal site often involves starting with a blank canvas which can be time-consuming and sometimes overwhe...
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Next.js for Decoupled Menus Initiative
Decoupled or Headless CMS fully or progressively decouples the frontend from the backend. In this approach, Drupal serves as a backend content vault, while one can choose a frontend technology that suits them best for a project. The Deco...
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Setting up Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics in Drupal
Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Google Analytics (GA) are widely used for monitoring user behavior and performance on websites. They allow us to create tracking tags and triggers without coding to follow how users interact with a site. This...
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Attaching custom libraries to a component/template in Acquia Site Studio
Acquia Site Studio is a low-code, Drupal add-on available for Acquia subscribers which allows users to create sites using drag and drop Layout Canvas, empowering non-developers in marketing or other departments, designers with little cod...
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Content Delivery of Tomorrow, Created by Drupal Today.
We recently wrapped up DrupalCon Global 2020. And we’d like to give you a sneak peek into our session. Our session Content Delivery of Tomorrow, Created by Drupal Today revolved around why content should be considered a part user experie...
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Entity and render Caching for Drupal performance
Drupal’s entity system is powerful, but without proper caching, it can become a performance bottleneck. Understanding entity and render caching is crucial for building high-performance Drupal websites that can handle complex content stru...
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How Drupal’s Experience builder is changing site creation
Drupal’s new Experience Builder (XB) is changing how teams create and manage content. It gives editors and developers a shared, visual interface to design pages quickly, without writing code. In this blog, we’ll explain what Drupal’s Exp...
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Introduction to the Policy Based Access Checking in Drupal 10
Traditionally, access control in Drupal was primarily 'role-based.' The site owner would define various roles and assign specific permissions to each. These roles would then be assigned to users. If a user’s role included the necessary p...
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NVIDIA Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2: a deep dive into state-of-the-art speech recognition architecture
Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v2 is a 600-million-parameter automatic speech recognition model designed for high-quality English transcription. Despite its relatively modest size compared to multi-billion parameter alternatives, this model delivers ...
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Single Directory Components (SDC) Block module in Drupal 10
The Single Directory Components (SDC) Block module in Drupal allows you to integrate SDCs into a page using blocks. This includes the regular block layout, layout builder, and any other tool that renders blocks on a page. If you want a q...
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Attaching External Css and Js in Drupal 8
If you are writing your own module in Drupal, you often need to include external or inline CSS / JS through your module code. In Drupal 7 it was typically done using the below approaches: CSS 1. Using drupal_add_css(): 2. Using #attached...
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Creating a vertical timeline with Acquia Site Studio
Using a vertical timeline is one of the best methods to display information over a period of time. With the help of it, you can easily share your information with others. As a use-case, you can state the history of politics, famous peopl...
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Essential CSS for perfect PDF rendering in Drupal
Creating PDFs from web content is a frequent necessity, and Drupal provides powerful tools. However, a lot of attention to CSS is essential to achieve a polished and professional appearance in your PDFs. This blog post will talk about th...
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How to access a local Lando site on other devices
While working on one of the sites, I was facing responsive issues on mobile devices. It was annoying to deploy smaller changes to check on the actual device. So I was looking for some tool/solution using which I could check the changes d...
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Introduction to Transform API
The Transform API is a recently contributed Drupal module, designed to simplify the creation of JSON content from various Drupal elements such as entities and menus. It provides a smooth way for developers familiar with Drupal's entity s...
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OmniAuth for external authentication with rails
Omniauth is a pretty simple solution if you want your users to authenticate using oauth and openid providers. Its based on the principle that Every authentication system can essentially be boiled down into two "phases". Omniauth do...
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What is SDC (Single Directory Components) in Drupal 10?
What is SDC (Single Directory Components) in Drupal 10? SDC is a fresh way of theming in Drupal 10. It organizes all files needed to render a web component (like a button, carousel, menu) into a single directory. An SDC component’s direc...
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Authenticated User Cart with Gatsby and Drupal commerce
Goal Prerequisite Let’s Get started We are done from the Drupal end here. Let’s move to the Gatsby end now. On Gatsby End 1. Register The first thing we will do is add user registration functionality. Create your UserRegistration form an...
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CRUD Operations in Decoupled Drupal: A 101 Guide
CRUD in computer programming refers to the functions required to perform different operations on specific data within a database. CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, and Delete. CRUD operations are widely used in applications supported...
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Essential elements of a social networking site
Its probably a moot point to suggest that social networking sites are the rage these days. Thanks to the success of facebook, twitter, myspace and orkut, most of the sites now have a strong social component to them. So is the social netw...
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How to alter the exception message thrown from core REST API
Introduction Recently, I was working with a REST API where I needed to register a user account. I decided to reuse the core user registration REST API, however, the only problem was that the error messages were not user-friendly. At t...
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Kaal - Drupal 6 theme
Kaal is a port of a wordpress theme to drupal. A pro-blogger theme which can have "ads" in the blog. It is a three column theme which you can use for your blog. It uses Blueprint CSS framework. This is a sub theme of drupal's bluepr...
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Optimising Drupal views and forms with Caching
Performance is often the difference between a Drupal site that users trust and one they abandon. Caching is not just a performance enhancer, it’s a core part of creating fast, reliable digital experiences. When used correctly, Drupal’s c...
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Site Studio - Theme Architecture
We are all familiar with Acquia Site Studio, a low-code tool for creating digital experience platforms. While working on Site Studio developers mostly work on the site-building part instead of writing code in the CSS or JS files. However...
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Automatic Updates: a Drupal Initiative
Consider a small-mid size Drupal Project. Usually what happens is that once development is complete, sites (Drupal or Wordpress or any other framework) are left forgotten. This leaves the site vulnerable to attack, especially when a new ...
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Custom skill for Alexa multi-turn dialog management
We have witnessed rapid developments around voice assistants over the past few years. With mobile users increasing exponentially every passing day it would be fair to assume that voice searches will rise simultaneously. Fiction has trans...
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Everything you need to know about CKEditor 5 integration for Drupal 9
CKEditor was added to Drupal back in 2011. While the latest version of Drupal, Drupal 9 comes with CKEditor 4’s stable version, its support will be terminated sometime in 2023, around the same time as Drupal 9’s end of life. Since replac...
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How to create Hamburger menu with Acquia Site Studio
This blog is a tutorial for setting the mobile menu (Hamburger menu) in Acquia Site Studio which was earlier known as Cohesion DX8. Converting the desktop horizontal dropdown menu to a Hamburger menu in mobile delivers the best UX f...
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Layout Builder Asset Injector module
| Benefits | CSS Injector CSS Injector allows administrators to inject CSS into the page output based on configurable rules. It's useful for adding simple CSS tweaks without modifying a site's official theme. | JS Injector JS...
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Our Drupal 9 Upgrade Story
The Drupal community is super excited for the Drupal 9 release, and so are we! In the spirit of our tradition of keeping the QED42 website up to date with the latest Drupal releases, we decided to celebrate the Drupal 9 release day...
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Structuring the site's content for Algolia - Drupal integration
The traditional approach to building search pages in Drupal involves using views, which offers several advantages. For instance, when a content type includes a media field, only the media ID needs to be indexed, as the Drupal Render API ...
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Automating content publishing in Drupal
Some content needs to go live at exactly the right time and without scheduling, that timing depends on someone being online, whether it’s late at night, on a weekend, or across time zones. Even during working hours, manually publishing c...
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Decoupling Drupal Commerce with Gatsby
Welcome to yet another blog post! In this article, we will learn how to decouple Drupal Commerce with Gatsby to build an e-commerce site that includes product detail pages, product listing pages, and much more. Let’s get start...
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Everything You Need to Know About Drupal 8.7
Drupal 8.7.0 was released on 1st May 2019. Apart from bug fixes and dependency updates, Drupal 8.7 facilitates creating page layouts and media management. Decoupled web experiences are now easier to manage and deliver, saving production ...
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How to integrate SSO with Drupal using miniOrange Module
What is SSO Single Sign-On (SSO) is an authentication process during which a user is provided access to multiple applications and/or websites by employing a single set of login credentials (such as username and password). Thi...
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Lazy Builders in Drupal 8 - Caching FTW
Drupal caching layer has become more advanced with the advent of cache tags & contexts in Drupal 8. In Drupal 7, the core din't offer many options to cache content for authenticated users. Reverse proxies like Varnish, Nginx etc...
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Our journey with MEAN
MEAN has been around in node.js landscape for over a year now and has continued to gain substantial traction in last 6 months with an active community sprouting around it. If you are new to MEAN, let me clarify its not a new framework to...
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Sublime -- awesome sauce for Drupal
Those of you, who have been living under the rock and "Sublime Text" is alien, please refer the following blog posts: How many times have your system got struck using various memory-sucking Heavy IDEs? I am sure most of us want to use a ...
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Automating workflows in Drupal with ECA (Event-Condition-Action)
Automation is at the heart of modern web development, allowing websites to streamline operations, enhance user experience, and reduce manual intervention. Drupal, being a powerful CMS, has long supported automation through modules ...
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Devel Execute PHP Code with Syntax Highlighter
Devel is one of the most powerful modules in Drupal, and it's one of the first modules I end up installing as a developer. One of the less prominent features of Devel, is the Devel Execute PHP Code, which is available on your site as /de...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Drupal 9 Layout Builder
Layout builder is a tool for creating the layouts of an entity. Before, we had to code for creating simple layouts or structures to place our content. With this module, not only developers but also content authors can create layouts. Thi...
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Run batch process via Ajax without redirecting to batch window
Recently, while working on a project, I encountered a need to download an XLS file upon clicking a button. Due to the large volume of data involved, we opted to use Drupal's Batch system to generate the file, minimizing the risk of error...
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Making Moves: What to Do With your Drupal 7 Site?
Drupal 10’s tentative release date has been set to 14th December 2022. Now, several improvements come with that, including enhanced editing features in the CKEditor 5, improved page customization for enabling an exceptional UX, and even ...
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Override existing Configuration entity types - Drupal 8
Why do we need to override Config Entity Types? In short, to customise and meet our dynamic requirements which may not be supported by config entity type definition as a part of @ConfigEntityType annotations in core o...
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Top 10 things you should know while working on a Site Studio project
We have shared our experiences with Site Studio and covered all the features and how this low-code tool helps marketers. In this blog post, we will be covering the top 10 things you must keep in mind while working on a Site Studio projec...
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Beyond keywords: delivering meaningful search experiences in Drupal
Traditional keyword search stops at words. Semantic search understands meaning. On most Drupal sites today, a user searching for “child education rights” might only get results that contain those exact words. But what if the best article...
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Dont out-spend, out-teach your competition
A snippet from a DHH talk on entrepreneurship at Stanford where he emphasises that instead of trying to outspend your competition in advertising, to build a sustainable business you should rather build an audience by educating about your...
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Exploring the new "#config_target" option in Drupal 10
Have you ever created a configuration form? It is one of the first things that we learn as Drupal developers. We use configuration forms to store values in configuration and then build functionalities based on those stored values. A good...
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Implementing #autocomplete in Drupal 8 with Custom Callbacks
Autocomplete on textfields like tags / user & node reference helps improve the UX and interactivity for your site visitors, In this blog post I'd like to cover how to implement autocomplete functionality in Drupal 8, including i...
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Managing large record sizes in Drupal and Algolia Integration
Imagine having a big homepage on our site, and when we put all the text from different fields together into 'aggregated_text_field,' the total character count goes over 10,000. Then there is a good chance that the home page won’t get ind...
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Page Specific Class Module: Drupal 8
At times different classes need to be applied to the body tags of different pages, for CSS styling or some different purpose. Page Specific Class module enables this by adding HTML attribute classes for CSS styling to the <body> ta...
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Top Tips for Drupal FE Specialization Certificate
The Drupal Front-End Specialization Certificate is part of Acquia's Drupal Certification Programs, and the name of the exam is Acquia Certified Drupal 9 Front-End Specialist. The fee for the exam is $300. This exam contains 60 ...
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BigPipe in Drupal 8
BigPipe was conceived at facebook as a solution to load dynamic pages quickly. Its a way of loading various sections of your web-page in parallel so end-users don't have to wait for the DOM to be completely ready to start interacting wit...
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Drag-and-drop made easy in Drupal with core's sortable.js
Creating a seamless and interactive user experience is more important than ever. One powerful tool for achieving this goal is drag-and-drop functionality, which Improves user engagement by allowing intuitive manipulation of elements dire...
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Exploring the Power of PHP Attributes in Drupal Development
Introduction PHP gets better over time, and one recent improvement is PHP attributes, which came with PHP 8. These attributes help organize things like classes, methods, and properties by adding extra information. This makes it easier fo...
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Implementing custom Cache bins for specialised needs
Drupal’s default cache bins-such as cache. render and cache. Entities are designed for generalised use cases. However, complex applications often require specialised caching strategies that transcend these built-in systems. I...
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Masonry layout with Acquia Site Studio
Masonry is a grid layout based on columns with auto-placement, but without sticking to a strict grid for the rows. Unlike other grid layouts, it doesn’t have a fixed height of rows. Basically, Masonry layouts optimize the use of space in...
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Perfection with Sublime Text - Part 1
For web developers, the choice of a source code editor isn't one made lightly. If you are going to be coding on a daily basis, and thus productivity is gained or lost here on a grand scale. But my search for the best code editor stopped ...
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Understanding Drupal’s Cache API
Drupal’s Cache API plays a central role in delivering performance at scale. It allows developers to store and reuse data across requests, reducing load on the database and speeding up response times. With the right strategy, caching can ...
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Bookmark folders
Tired of navigating to folders via their meandering paths.....Start using aliases, but finding them hard to manage. Enter bookmark. This is a very handy functionality that lets us bookmark folders, and easily navigate to them in the futu...
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Drupal 8 Module Porting Sprint
We in Pune community have had few D8 sprints in past, where in we focussed on sub components like Router system, Multilingual and other low hanging fruits. Many Drupalers wanted to have a high level view of D8 Developer ecosystem and we ...
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Exporting and emailing Drupal nodes as PDFs with Entity print
Sending emails with attachments is a common requirement for any website. Entity print is a widely popular module that helps to export any Drupal entities as PDFs instantly. Using this module, users can either download an entity as pdf or...
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Implementing OTP-based login and registration in Drupal with Twilio and SMS framework
With the rise of security concerns, traditional username and password systems are often insufficient to protect user data and prevent unauthorized access. Passwords can be easily forgotten, stolen, or hacked, leading to a high risk of br...
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Mastering custom drush commands
The power of CLI in Drupal development Imagine you’re managing a news website with thousands of articles. One morning, your editor asks, “How many ‘breaking news’ articles do we have?”Without a custom Drush command, you’d log into the a...
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Perfection with Sublime Text - Part 2
Installing Sublime Text For Linux Linux 32-bit -: Linux 64-bit -: Customizing on Linux - Desktop Entry and Symbolic Link Linux Users should do the following to take advantage of Sublime Text by doing the next steps -: For Mac Users, afte...
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Unravelling Acquia Site Studio’s features.
After a basic outline about Acquia Cohesion DX8 now renamed as Site Studio in our previous blog, Cohesion - Low Code Enterprise-grade, Drupal website building platform, let’s dive into a few advanced features of Site Studio.In our p...
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A preview of the breaking changes in Drupal 9
Drupal 9 is scheduled to be released on June 03, 2020. This is when the final Drupal 8 minor release 8.9 will also be released. Considering the history of previous Drupal major upgrades, Drupal 9 will relatively be smooth. Thanks to the ...
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Building custom Caching services in Drupal
The need for custom solutions Drupal’s default caching mechanisms include cache.render and cache.page are designed for general use cases. They work well for standard content delivery, reducing load times and database queries across a bro...
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Drupal Caching best practices and performance monitoring
Caching is both an art and a science. Mastering it can transform your Drupal site from a sluggish performer to a lightning-fast powerhouse. In this final blog of our caching series, we’ll tie together everything you’ve learned: comprehen...
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Exposing custom Web Services
In this article, I will show you how to expose data from a custom table with the help of RESTful services and JSON. Such cases usually arise when you need to expose data for other sites or want mobile development for an existing Drupal s...
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Implementing Right-To-Left Styling with CSS Logical Properties
Multilingual websites or multiple-language websites are a necessity these days. Most developers are comfortable in building multilingual websites with LTR (Left-To-Right) languages however, there are certain regions across the world that...
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Mastering page and block Caching in Drupal
Slow pages lose users. For Drupal sites, smart caching flips that script, turning heavy, database-driven pages into quick, memory-efficient responses. Whether it’s a blog, nonprofit platform, or enterprise CMS, caching is essential to pe...
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Porting access callbacks to Drupal 8
Menu system in Drupal 8 has been changed completely. One of the biggest changes being removal of hook_menu(). Now the menu items, its page callbacks/access callbacks... are all defined in yml files(*.routing.yml). There has been a shift ...
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Upcasting menu parameters in Drupal 8
Menu upcasting means converting a menu argument to anything. It can be an object or an array. In this article, we will look at how it used to be done in Drupal 7 codebase & how should we port this into Drupal 8 codebase. Lets t...
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