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Search - 9 October, 2026 ### [How to fix Drupal redirect chains automatically with Redirect Audit](https://metadrop.net/en/articles/how-to-fix-drupal-redirect-chains-automatically-with-redirect-audit) Drupal sites accumulate redirect chains with every migration and content change; over time they reach hundreds or thousands, slowing navigation, hurting SEO, and becoming unfeasible to fix by hand. Redirect Audit is a Metadrop contrib module that audits every redirect... - Antonio Núñez - 30 September, 2026 ### [Keyboard navigation accessibility: what WCAG requires and how to check your website](https://metadrop.net/en/articles/keyboard-navigation-accessibility-what-wcag-requires-and-how-to-check-your-website) For many sites, the European Accessibility Act makes WCAG AA a legal requirement, and keyboard navigation is a core part of it. The article describes who depends on keyboard navigation, the WCAG criteria that cover it, common mistakes that block... - Alberto Antoranz - 24 September, 2026 ### [Managing untracked files in Drupal with File Inspector](https://metadrop.net/en/articles/managing-untracked-files-in-drupal-with-file-inspector) Long-lived Drupal sites accumulate files the system no longer tracks: orphaned uploads, migration residue, and files removed from content but left in storage. This article explains why storage and the database inevitably drift apart, the costs in storage, governance, and... - Luis Ruiz - 16 September, 2026 ### [How to eliminate manual credential sharing in Drupal integrations with a Vault service](https://metadrop.net/en/articles/how-to-eliminate-manual-credential-sharing-in-drupal-integrations-with-a-vault-service) Every Drupal integration with an external service requires sensitive credentials, and the common practice of passing them between client and provider creates a transport chain that is exposed at every step. This article describes how a Vault service removes that... - Juanjo López - 9 September, 2026 ### [How to mark foreign words for accessibility in Drupal with the CKEditor Language plugin](https://metadrop.net/en/articles/how-to-mark-foreign-words-for-accessibility-in-drupal-with-the-ckeditor-language-plugin) Mixing languages in web content without marking each foreign word is a recurring accessibility failure that breaks screen reader output and, since the European Accessibility Act came into force in June 2025, constitutes a legal violation for most EU web... - Alberto Ortega - 2 September, 2026 ### [Fixing missing image alt attributes in Drupal without development](https://metadrop.net/en/articles/fixing-missing-image-alt-attributes-in-drupal-without-development) Missing or incorrect image alt attributes damage both accessibility and SEO. They surface at scale after content migrations, and also in day-to-day content operations, when the alt field is optional, whether by misconfiguration or by explicit client request, or when... - Alejandro Cabarcos - 30 July, 2026 ### [How to audit internal linking and crawl traps in Drupal with Entity Mesh](https://metadrop.net/en/articles/how-to-audit-internal-linking-and-crawl-traps-in-drupal-with-entity-mesh) A Drupal technical SEO audit tool that maps internal linking site-wide and reports crawl traps, broken links, redirect chains, and cross-language gaps. - Eduardo Morales - 30 July, 2026 ### [How to automate WordPress to Drupal content migration with WordPress Migrate SQL](https://metadrop.net/en/articles/how-to-automate-wordpress-to-drupal-content-migration-with-wordpress-migrate-sql) Migrating a WordPress site to Drupal means moving thousands of posts, users, taxonomy terms, and files without manual errors. WordPress Migrate SQL is a Drupal module that automates this migration directly from the WordPress database, offering a zero-code import for... - Omar Lopesino - 13 July, 2026 ### [How Drupal publishes XBRL and iXBRL compliant financial and sustainability reports](https://metadrop.net/en/articles/how-drupal-publishes-xbrl-and-ixbrl-compliant-financial-and-sustainability-reports) EU regulations such as ESEF and CSRD require companies to publish financial and sustainability data in machine-readable like XBRL and iXBRL formats. Generating a compliant filing needs specialized tools, but Drupal is well suited to publish it and even consuming... - Ricardo Sanz - 10 June, 2026 ### [CKEditor5 Markdown: explicit Markdown-to-HTML conversion for Drupal editors](https://metadrop.net/en/articles/ckeditor5-markdown-explicit-markdown-to-html-conversion-for-drupal-editors) CKEditor5 Markdown is a new Drupal contrib module that adds CKEditor5 toolbar plugin into the toolbar for converting Markdown to HTML on demand. - Jorge Tutor - [ Current page 1](?page=0 "Current page") - [ Page 2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Page 3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Page 4](?page=3 "Go to page 4") - [ Page 5](?page=4 "Go to page 5") - [ Page 6](?page=5 "Go to page 6") - [ Page 7](?page=6 "Go to page 7") - [ Page 8](?page=7 "Go to page 8") - [ Page 9](?page=8 "Go to page 9") - … - [ Next page ›› ](?page=1 "Go to next page") - [ Last page » ](?page=9 "Go to last page") RSS Don't lose anything [Subscribe to our RSS](https://metadrop.net/en/rss/articles)