Expert Drupal & Tech Articles

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

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

  • 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 Ante

      Ricardo Sanz

  • Local tasks hierarchy on Drupal 10

    Implement and understand how to develop two-level local tasks in Drupal 10. Learn to create a hierarchical structure of local tasks using YAML files and discover how the Drupal community can offer effective solutions.

    • Eduardo Morales Alberti

      Eduardo Morales

  • 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 Ante

      Ricardo Sanz

  • 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 Ante

      Ricardo Sanz

  • Solr9 upgrade on Acquia

    Discover how to perform a self-service upgrade to Solr 9 in Acquia environments. This guide covers key changes, Drupal configuration with custom configsets, and the step-by-step process to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

    • Fran Rouco

      Fran Rouco

  • Using Vue.js & Nuxt.js with MongoDB & Docker

    Using Nuxt.js with tools like Docker maybe tedious, this guide will give you the steps to build a demonstrative app with Nuxt.js, Docker and MongoDB.

    • Emanuel Asandei

      Emanuel Asandei

  • oEmbed resources from a custom domain in Drupal

    In 2018, Drupal added support for oEmbed in media and the ability to serve them from a subdomain to improve security against XSS attacks. Although the resources are displayed in iframes, doing so under the same domain can be insecure...

    • Fran Rouco

      Fran Rouco

    • Photo Luis

      Luis Ruiz

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