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Practical articles and deep dives on Drupal development, AI, web accessibility, DevOps, and software quality from Metadrop's engineering team.

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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.

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

  • Implementing an AI customer support agent in Drupal using Voiceflow

    Voiceflow is a platform that facilitates the creation of highly customizable AI chatbots and develop complex conversation flows without programming. With the Voiceflow module, you can easily i ntegrate your chatbot in Drupal effortlessly and intuitively.

    • Alberto Ortega

      Alberto Ortega

  • 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 Alberti

      Eduardo Morales

  • The Impact of bot traffic on websites and how to mitigate It

    Bot-generated traffic on the internet has grown significantly, negatively impacting website performance and increasing operational costs. This rise is driven by the growth of artificial intelligence, the spread of crawlers used to train models, and the increase in malicious bots...

    • Photo Luis

      Luis Ruiz

    • Fran Rouco

      Fran Rouco

  • Composer 2 and Drupal

    Composer 2 was released 4 months ago and it is an impressive improvement especially in terms of performance. Drupal is ready to be managed by Composer 2, and you should start using it as soon as possible.

    • RIcardo Sanz Ante

      Ricardo Sanz

  • 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...

  • Drupal Camp Sevilla: how it was?

    Thoughts on the Drupal Camp Sevilla that has just ended: the sessions, the community, the Business Day and some unplanned but interesting things.

    • RIcardo Sanz Ante

      Ricardo Sanz

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