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DrupalConPortland 2024 was full of fun and excitement for us. Read our recap to learn some highlights from our team’s firsthand conference experience.

Have you ever wished to have a single tool to rule all your project’s commands? FIRE, a PHP-scripted tool, accomplishes just that.

Well, we did it; we’ve reached the last day of DrupalCon Portland 2024. Today was a specialty content day with something for all conference attendees. Largely it was a day of industry summits and training.

Authored by Nadiia Nykolaichuk and Bryan Sharpe. Smart approaches and tools are shaping the future of content management and website administration, leaving behind the days of tedious manual work. With a click of a button, you can instantly make consistent changes to multiple pages, almost as if wielding a magical wand.

Authored by Nadiia Nykolaichuk and Bryan Sharpe. Smart approaches and tools are shaping the future of content management and website administration, leaving behind the days of tedious manual work. With a click of a button, you can instantly make consistent changes to multiple pages, almost as if wielding a magical wand.

Changes announced at DrupalCon 2024

Read how to streamline the Drupal API development process with Drupal's APITools module from Aten's VP of Engineering, Joel Steidl.

By default, the Drupal 7 to 10 upgrade path preserves entity IDs. In the previous article, we explained that this would cause problems if content or configuration already exists in the destination Drupal 10 site. Let’s explore this further and evaluate ways to work around the issue.

Last week, I attended DrupalCon Portland 2024, and, like many others, I was swept up in the excitement of the Starshot announcement. The PreviousNext team is ready to support this initiative, focusing our efforts on the Experience Builder project for maximum impact.

The Backdrop community is proud to announce the release of version 1.28 of Backdrop CMS! As part of our commitment to deliver the most usable product, "minor" releases come out three times a year, on a regular schedule. This allows site maintainers to know when to expect updates, and they can plan accordingly. (See https://backdropcms.org/releases for more information on this) Release notes for Backdrop CMS 1.28: https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop/releases/tag/1.28.0

Drupal Starshot is a new packaged and pre-configured version of Drupal that was announced at DrupalCon Portland. It is not a separate fork or rewrite of Drupal. Drupal Starshot takes advantage of the new Recipes feature introduced in Drupal versions 10.3 and 11. Recipes allow installing Drupal with a complete, ready-to-use website, going beyond the standard installation profile. More details about the Drupal Starshot initiative are available on its official page.

Kristiaan Van den Eynde, Senior Drupal Developer at Factorial, has made substantial contributions to Drupal, including the widely-used Group module and VariationCache. His project, Policy-Based Access in Core, introduced a dynamic system for managing permissions based on predefined policies. This initiative, set to debut in Drupal 10.3, promises enhanced flexibility and security. Kristiaan shares insights into his development process, the challenges faced, and the future of access control in Drupal.

Building multilingual websites is easy and out-of-the-box with Drupal. Learn more about the different Drupal translation modules that enable multilingual functionality on your website.

DrupalCon Portland 2024 Wrapup

Our client's website had a questionnaire that ran on a Drupal module. The customer rewrote this block in Angular and asked us to implement it into the site.

This blog post was inspired by my time at DrupalCon Portland and the Driesnote, announcing Starshot.

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DrupalCon Portland was a success! Read on to see Chris' reflection on topics at the event such as Contribution Day, Project Browser, and more.

I presented my first ever Drupal 11 deep dive session at DrupalCon Portland 2024 last week. It turned out to not just be about Drupal 11 but also about Starshot and even about Drupal 12 thanks to the coolest future-proofing technology I announced in this talk. Unfortunately not all of the attendees fit in, that wanted to attend, as the room was standing space only and many turned around and left. But here we go!I strongly believe in open content. I came to open source from open content 24 or so years ago. So in good tradition, I built this slide deck on slides.com in way that is easy to share and fork. You can create your own or present directly from my deck with my speaker notes. The content is licensed with a Creative Commons license. I'll keep updating this slideshow, but under different URLs, so people can catch the latest edition of this presentation at Drupal Devdays Burgas next month for example. See some of you there!If you can't make it there or plan to present this at your organization or meetup in the meantime, check out the open source slides.The recording from DrupalCon Portland is below. Unfortunately I was not well prepared with a subtitling set up. I am exploring good tools and will do better next time! The conference tech crew tried to help in the middle of the session, but unfortunately they could not make it work either. At least managed to discuss some current Starshot questions while that was attempted. I promised a video with subtitles, which turns out Youtube nicely delivered, so I will not create a separate recording now. Hope this helps!

This past weekend I attended my 20th DrupalCon (holy 💩!). This year, Dries announced a new “Starshot” initiative during the requisite “Driesnote” keynote.

Drupal project lead Dries Buytaert just unveiled the Drupal Starshot Initiative and I couldn't be more excited! Starshot is all about putting users first. Enhancing Drupal core with additional components tailored to everyday users of the interface. Technically, it builds on Drupal core's robust foundation, utilizing Automatic Updates/Package Manager for seamless installation and maintenance, Recipes for the base system and on-demand additions, and Project Browser to help with recipe and extension discovery.As I was talking to people about Starshot at DrupalCon Portland I realized it is easy to overlook how fundamental the changes proposed are in terms of how Drupal will innovate and the benefits end users will enjoy. At the same time those that did not have time to watch the whole keynote had understandable misconceptions about its nature. Some were concerned the fundamental changes are happening in the architecture, or a fork / parallel project is being set up. That is not where/how Starshot revolutionizes Drupal though. To address those misconceptions, I already worked on answers to frequently asked questions and published on the Starshot page.This blog post will focus on the benefits that I see. I had the chance to participate in two hours of Starshot BoFs and then an hour long Q&A session at DrupalCon Portland. I also covered more technical details of Starshot's architecture in my Drupal 11 talk (including the most popular question on what the Launch button might lead to). Finally I had countless conversations with people at the event. Maybe confirmation bias, but there were only a couple people I talked to that were entirely skeptical. On the other hand I got very different viewpoints on what will the benefits be depending on who I talked to.I think all of those are great, so I compiled them. Let's see 15 different reasons why I am super excited about Starshot and how it is very different from previous initiatives.

Adding custom HTML to your Drupal site is easy with content blocks – no coding required. Content blocks are great for inserting subscription forms, social media buttons, promo banners, or custom formatting. Let’s walk through the steps to create a content block and place it on your Drupal site:

Authored by: Nadiia Nykolaichuk. “Let’s reach for the stars and bring the Open Web to all.” — Dries Buytaert, creator and project lead of Drupal

A step-by-step guide to implementing an AI chatbot on your county website, covering planning, development, deployment, and maintenance. Download the accompanying free checklist here.

Contribution Day has arrived!!