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

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
27 January, 2017
Utilities for Behat 3.x "tips & tricks"
Article with some tricks that will help us to understand and improve our knowledge about Behat.
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 July, 2017
SeñorCool pays us a visit
SeñorCool, a platform for graphic designers of any disciplines, comes to our offices with a great gift.
- Ricardo Sanz
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
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
29 September, 2014
Installing solr 4.x on tomcat 7 on debian 7
how to install Solr on Tomcat on a Debian 7 distribution.
- Jorge Tutor
8 January, 2024
Using VLSuite to copy Drupal.org home page
A demonstration of the capabilities of the VLSuite Drupal module by copying the Drupal.org home page using the default features of VLSuite.
- Ricardo Sanz
10 March, 2021
Composer 2 and Drupal
Composer 2 was released 4 months ago and it is an impressive improvement especially in terms of performance. Drupal is ready to be managed by Composer 2, and you should start using it as soon as possible.
- Ricardo Sanz
7 August, 2013
quick test email sending
Snippets for sending emails from devel/php for quick email layout tests or service availability tests.
- Jorge Tutor

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