Drupal & Tech Articles by Metadrop

Engineering knowledge from real Drupal projects

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.

Topics we write about regularly:

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

13 July, 2026
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
11 May, 2023
Understand your project's site structure and data with Xray Audit
At Metadrop, we regularly work on complex projects such as multisites with over 20 sites, numerous contributed and custom-installed modules, various types of profiles, and where Config Split is used for configuration management. Dealing with this complexity can be challenging...
- Luis Ruiz
17 February, 2026
Managing Drupal Status Report requirements
Drupal's status report often shows warnings that clutter your admin interface. We built Requirements Manager to hide or modify these requirements through a simple UI instead of writing custom code for every project.
- Eduardo Morales
- Jorge Tutor
18 September, 2025
Aljibe: quality and testing for Drupal developments with DDEV
Aljibe is a set of testing tools and best practices built on top of DDEV to help you develop Drupal projects. Discover all its capabilities and enhance the quality of your projects with ease.
- Ricardo Sanz
25 September, 2024
Improving headers in a Drupal site using Dries' HTTP Header Analyzer
How we got 10/10 in the Dries' HTTP Header Analyzer tool.
- Ricardo Sanz
17 June, 2025
Metadrop April 2025: new releases for Drupal ecosystem, privacy and content editorial experience
Highlights from April: privacy, new releases in Drupal ecosystem, research on IA capabilities, helping clients and more.
- Ricardo Sanz
16 October, 2024
What you need to know before enabling the state cache in Drupal 10.3
State Cache, Drupal 10.3.0 introduces a new improvement in the handling of the State API, before enabling it, we'll tell you the keys to ensuring that the site's performance is optimized and there are no issues with the new configuration.
- Eduardo Morales
11 February, 2025
Metadrop monthly update: new Drupal modules, improvements & contributions
A roundup of our latest work to help you build better Drupal sites
- Jorge Tutor
19 June, 2017
Ensuring software quality: Static code analysers
Static code analysers allow us to audit/measure the state of the project's code in an objective manner.
- Jorge Tutor
29 April, 2025
Metadrop March 2025: content-first publishing, docker speedups, and Drupal evolution
Highlights from a productive month at Metadrop—featuring DevOps tools, new Drupal modules, and a exploring content-centered workflows
- Jorge Tutor
- Ricardo Sanz

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