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

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
13 December, 2024
The new era of digital accessibility: legal obligations for the public and private sector from 2025 onwards
In recent years, the European Union (EU) and Member States have intensified their efforts to ensure that eAccessibility is a standard rather than an exception. Both the public and private sectors are under increasing regulatory scrutiny, with the aim of...
- Olalla Rodicio
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
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...
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