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End of Drupal 8

For those who do not know, today November 2, support for Drupal 8 has ended.For some time now, the Drupal community has been warning you to upgrade to Drupal 9, which is a painless upgrade with multiple benefits. Ver: https://www.drupal.org/psa-2021-2021-06-29 As of this November, any Drupal 8 website is potentially...

WHY DRUPAL 9? Q&A WITH A TOP DRUPAL CONSULTANT

Drupal 9 is finally here. The big question within the Drupal world as we enter this new phase in the evolution of my favourite CMS: Now what? In an environment of Covid-19 quarantines and stay-at-home orders, websites are relied upon to do more heavy lifting than ever before. I'm passionate...

EXCLUDE AND INCLUDE PAGES IN DRUPAL 8 BLOCK VISIBILITY SETTINGS

The standard configuration of the block visibility page in Drupal 8 allows you to include numbered paths (via "Show for all numbered pages" or exclude numbered paths (via "Hide for all numbered pages"), but you can never include and exclude at the same time, the "Block Exclude Pages" module offers...

CONFIGURING TRAEFIK 2 WITH LOCAL SSL CERTIFICATE

I recently upgraded our local Docker development stacks to use Traefik version 2. Traefik is an edge router application that makes configuring services and routes fairly simple. I found the process of enforcing HTTPS traffic to be a bit challenging and required much more effort than Traefik version 1. All...

MIGRATEPOSTROWSAVE EVENT IN DRUPAL 8 REDIRECT MIGRATIONS

The migration system in Drupal 8 is very powerful. In very few lines of code, you can connect various data sources, process and import data into Drupal. One of those important data is URL transfer and redirects for legacy content. The good news is that redirects are entities in Drupal...

DRUPAL CONTRIB MODULE: COMPOSITE REFERENCE

Today I want to introduce a new contrib module called Composite Reference. Why is it called this way? Because it is intended to be used to strengthen the "link" between entities that are meant to live and die together. In many cases, we use entity references to entities that are...

CREATING URL ALIAS through programming IN DRUPAL

Hi, I recently came across a peculiar use case: i had to create a logic where the URL alias changes when selecting a particular taxonomy term referenced in a particular content type. Let's say for simplicity, that we have two types of URLs depending on the two possible taxonomies: Taxonomy...

CREATING A CUSTOM TOKEN IN DRUPAL 8

Tokens represent an inline replacement when evaluating or rendering text. In Drupal, the Token module dates back to Drupal 4.xand still exists for Drupal 8 (and Drupal 9). This has long been the backbone of powerful features in Drupal, such as user-configurable dynamic aliases with Pathauto, robust meta tag control...

AUTOMATICALLY REMOVE README FILES FROM DRUPAL CORE AND OTHER SCAFFOLDING FILES

When creating a Drupal 8 or 9 project using the drupal/recommended-project composer template, you may notice during certain Composer commands that the scaffolding files are copied from an "assets" directory inside the Drupal core directory to their correct place in the codebase. But did you know that the plugin that...

HOW TO CUSTOMIZE THE LANGUAGE SELECTOR IN DRUPAL

Drupal 8 dramatically improved the capabilities for creating multilingual websites. The content translation was moved to the core and an improved architecture made it much easier to internationalize complex sites. However, the language switcher could use some improvements. Here's how we customized it. As a digital agency with Catalan origins...