Expert Drupal & Tech Articles

A Drupal technical SEO audit tool that maps internal linking site-wide and reports crawl traps, broken links, redirect chains, and cross-language gaps.

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...

For many sites, the European Accessibility Act makes WCAG AA a legal requirement, and keyboard navigation is a core part of it. The article describes who depends on keyboard navigation, the WCAG criteria that cover it, common mistakes that block...

Long-lived Drupal sites accumulate files the system no longer tracks: orphaned uploads, migration residue, and files removed from content but left in storage. This article explains why storage and the database inevitably drift apart, the costs in storage, governance, and...

Missing or incorrect image alt attributes damage both accessibility and SEO. They surface at scale after content migrations, and also in day-to-day content operations, when the alt field is optional, whether by misconfiguration or by explicit client request, or when...

Mixing languages in web content without marking each foreign word is a recurring accessibility failure that breaks screen reader output and, since the European Accessibility Act came into force in June 2025, constitutes a legal violation for most EU web...

Highlights from a productive month at Metadrop—featuring DevOps tools, new Drupal modules, and a exploring content-centered workflows

Every Drupal integration with an external service requires sensitive credentials, and the common practice of passing them between client and provider creates a transport chain that is exposed at every step. This article describes how a Vault service removes that...

EU regulations such as ESEF and CSRD require companies to publish financial and sustainability data in machine-readable like XBRL and iXBRL formats. Generating a compliant filing needs specialized tools, but Drupal is well suited to publish it and even consuming...

Dark mode, or dark theme, is moving from being a niche preference to a widespread expectation, as it has native support in major operating systems and is experiencing exponential adoption on websites. More than just a visually appealing trend, dark...