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

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
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
27 October, 2021
Multiple databases on a single instance on Drupal 9
How to host multiple databases on the same instance on Drupal 9 using a prefix for the secondary databases and how to define the database connection using Database API.
- Eduardo Morales
18 March, 2025
Metadrop February 2025: Security reinforcements, dark mode expansion & Open Source innovation
A roundup of our latest work to help you build better Drupal sites, February, 2025.
- Jorge Tutor
- Ricardo Sanz
19 September, 2023
We are going to the Drupal Camp Spain at Seville
Let's talk about the Drupal Camp Spain, give credit to all people that make this possible and share Metadrop's contribution: this year will be there with four talks and one workshop.
- Ricardo Sanz
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...