Drupal & Tech Articles by Metadrop

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Everything published here comes from production work: the contributed modules we maintain on drupal.org, the migrations, upgrades, and audits we deliver for enterprise clients, and the tooling we build to raise quality on every project. We document what we learn so your team can apply it.

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Drupal development — architecture, contributed modules, upgrades, migrations, and performance
AI and automation — practical AI integrations in Drupal, LLM tooling, and editorial workflows
Web accessibility — WCAG compliance and the European Accessibility Act
DevOps and infrastructure — hosting, CI/CD, local environments, and platform migrations
Software quality — testing strategy, Behat, PHPUnit, and QA tooling

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10 June, 2026
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
15 July, 2020
CKEditor widgets: an alternative to Paragraphs?
Whenever users require to be able to enter predefined HTML snippets such as quotations, tabs or even simple layouts, our first option is usually to create new fields or paragraphs. However, there is an alternative that in some cases is...
13 January, 2017
Behat3.x steps of interactions with Nodes for Drupal
In this article we will add steps to manipulate our Drupal nodes
8 April, 2025
Tailwind CSS vs Bootstrap
Which framework is the most competitive for current times?
- Alejandro Cabarcos
16 March, 2021
Scrollytelling using scrollama.js, CSS and best practices
For some years now, a number of techniques have been quite popular with one thing in common: the introduction of animations or interactions triggered by the user's scrolling through the page. In this article we show you how to implement...
23 March, 2026
What is llms.txt? An optimization strategy for AI and its implementation in Drupal
We will analyze what the llms.txt standard is and how it solves the interpretation problems that AIs face when navigating today's websites. We will look at its technical structure, the importance of semantics for controlling your narrative, and a practical...
- Alberto Ortega
31 May, 2018
Crear un layout custom con Layout API
Aprende a registrar tu primer layout custom desde cero en Drupal 8, de esta manera tendrás disponibles plantillas personalizadas en tus contenidos. Una guía básica para que a partir de unas nociones básicas de programación y tematizado puedas hacer más...
- Eduardo Morales
23 July, 2014
Presentación del caso de éxito "Drupal, Drupal Commerce y otros amigos" en la Drupal Camp Valencia 2014
Resumen de la presentación ofrecida en la Drupal Camp Valencia 2014.
- Ricardo Sanz
14 November, 2017
Metadrop, headless Drupal and JavaScript applications
Metadrop has been approaching the development of mobile applications and client applications in JavaScript
- Ricardo Sanz
3 December, 2024
A content manager on steroids: combine Drupal with AI to create content efficiently
This guide provides detailed instructions to install and configure the OpenAI module in Drupal, integrating it with CKEditor to leverage artificial intelligence capabilities during content editing.
- Manuel Bermúdez
- Olalla Rodicio

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