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Drupal development — architecture, contributed modules, upgrades, migrations, and performance
AI and automation — practical AI integrations in Drupal, LLM tooling, and editorial workflows
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16 December, 2020
How to develop a Pomodoro application for Slack in PHP
Slack has a very wide API to pull from. In this article, you will learn in a simple way in a few steps how to code a Pomodoro application based on PHP without having too much knowledge about the technologies...
- Eduardo Morales
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...
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
13 March, 2020
Drupal 8 Commerce 2, create an order programmatically
How to create an order programmatically, redirect user to the payment step (in a form submit workflow), and manage anonymous user session.
18 February, 2020
Drupal 8, Search API and Solr 8
We created an easy example to run Drupal 8 with Search API and Solr 8. The current project is released as practical example to setup and run a sandbox environment. We created a git repository with a template to run...
13 December, 2019
Creating a command using Drupal Console
How to create Drupal Console commands, a tool for Drupal 8 that allows us to make certain development tasks easier.
- Eduardo Morales
25 June, 2019
La experiencia en los Drupal Dev Days de Cluj Napoca 2019
Sistema de gestión de contenidos distribuidos, Drupal 9, sistemas de integración continua, y muchos más han sido los temas de los que se han hablado durante los Drupal Dev Days en Cluj Napoca.
- Omar Lopesino
10 June, 2019
Drupal Dev Days 2019 is starting in Cluj Napoca
Today, the main developer event of the Drupal community, Drupal Dev Days, starts in Cluj Napoca, Transylvania. Drupal Dev Days is an international event organized by the Drupal community that brings people together from around the world who contribute to...
- Ricardo Sanz
20 December, 2018
Import your content with Feeds with Drupal
Feeds provide a friendly UI so that we can import your content to Drupal.
- Omar Lopesino
23 November, 2018
Jenkins and Job DSL plugin
Automating processes such as test execution or other frequently used operations can speed up the software development, and tools such as Jenkins and its Job DSL plugin are very useful for this purpose.
- Eduardo Morales

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