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

31 March, 2025
The content first module: a tool to support ongoing content workflows
Learn how the content_first Drupal module helps teams quickly access and reuse the actual text content on any page—making it easier to write, edit, or share content in active projects.
- Jorge Tutor
2 June, 2020
Embedding things using its URL and oEmbed
oEmbed is a format that allows embedding of a properly represented URL. This means rendered in a way that is useful to the visitor. Even clearer: it allows to include things like tweets, video from different providers, Flickr albums and...
- Ricardo Sanz
16 August, 2022
Mocking third-party API in development and test environments
Mocking an API, and therefore not relying on the connection to the third-party service, is useful in development and testing environments.
- Luis Ruiz
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
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
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...
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...