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

8 April, 2025
Tailwind CSS vs Bootstrap
Which framework is the most competitive for current times?
- Alejandro Cabarcos
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...
24 May, 2018
A single CSS file or multiple files in a custom theme for Drupal 8
Is it really worth splitting CSS files in a custom theme?
21 November, 2024
Artisan Drupal SDC theme: What you need to know
Artisan is a Bootstrap SDC base theme we use for our all new projects.
- Alejandro Cabarcos
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
29 April, 2025
Metadrop March 2025: content-first publishing, docker speedups, and Drupal evolution
Highlights from a productive month at Metadrop—featuring DevOps tools, new Drupal modules, and a exploring content-centered workflows
- Jorge Tutor
- Ricardo Sanz
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...
17 June, 2025
Metadrop April 2025: new releases for Drupal ecosystem, privacy and content editorial experience
Highlights from April: privacy, new releases in Drupal ecosystem, research on IA capabilities, helping clients and more.
- Ricardo Sanz
23 March, 2026
What is llms.txt? An optimization strategy for AI and its implementation in Drupal
We will analyze what the llms.txt standard is and how it solves the interpretation problems that AIs face when navigating today's websites. We will look at its technical structure, the importance of semantics for controlling your narrative, and a practical...
- Alberto Ortega
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

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