Printing an Entity Reference Field Programmatically in Drupal 8
I often want to print the output of an Entity Reference field somewhere - a page template, a complicated node template, or in a custom module that is organizing data. In Drupal 7, you could do this...
A Better Way to Administrate Drupal - Part 1
I started an internal discussion with the team about the possibility of contributing an administrative theme to the community. Many were eager to help. A new Slack channel was born, and a impassioned flurry of ideas and concepts came pouring out.
Drupal Development and Server Environment Best Practices
When starting a new project we often outline our development process with our clients. The explanation helps our clients understand how important each aspect is to the immediate- and long-term success of their projects. This also illustrates the environment scheme needed.
Why Progressive Decoupling Drupal's Front-End is a Bad Idea
Lately there has been much chatter about Drupal including a front-end framework in Drupal core. Dries has written a few times about the concept and has established that he’s interested in a future where Drupal is “progressively decoupled” from its front-end, leaving the front-end rendering to be handled piecemeal by a JavaScript framework like Angular or React. Progressive decoupling, far from being an industry standard, is a concept that has been coined in the last several months. Without a sucessful model to look at, we are staking our future on a reality that only exists in blog posts. The momentum of front end frameworks distracts from addressing more important issues, and has created a miasma of anxiety that Drupal is going to be “left-behind”, again.
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How to Write an Effective Bug Report, Issue, or Ticket
Whether you are a project manager, product owner, developer, or content manager, you may have to submit issues, bug reports, tickets, or tasks. Whatever your project management tool calls t...
How to create a CKeditor plugin for Drupal 7
My installation settings:
Drupal 7
WYSIWYG Version 7.x-2.2+73-dev
ckeditor 4.5.1
Client requirements.
I created a simple CKed...
Weekly Roundup - Yule Logs, Nick Offerman and Pickle Cat
Chapter Three News:
We've launched over 50 sites in the last two weeks. This is not a drill.
Alex Pott listened to the DA discussing the
Lessons from Porting Entityqueue to Drupal 8
Ever since the word Symfony was first whispered on IRC there has been a lot of anxiety in the Drupal community about how much, and what kind of effort will be needed to port a contrib module from D...