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

17 October, 2022
Updating Drupal to PHP 8
Almost 2 years ago PHP 7.4 reached its end-of-life, and in a little less than 2 months it will no longer have security support as well. Consequently, in recent months a large number of clients and providers have felt the...
- Alberto Ortega
- Eduardo Morales
25 July, 2017
Maintaining Drupal: when to update core and modules
Quick guide for identifying when should the Drupal core and its modules be updated.
- Jorge Tutor
1 September, 2025
Migrating Drupal from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8
Notes on migrating a Drupal site from to MySQL 8, things to focus on, different hosting providers and what errors may happen.
- Ricardo Sanz
8 April, 2025
Tailwind CSS vs Bootstrap
Which framework is the most competitive for current times?
- Alejandro Cabarcos
11 February, 2025
Metadrop monthly update: new Drupal modules, improvements & contributions
A roundup of our latest work to help you build better Drupal sites
- Jorge Tutor
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
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
9 October, 2023
Drupal Updater: Streamlining Drupal Maintenance Updates from CLI
Maintaining a Drupal website involves keeping multiple components up to date, including Drupal modules, themes, vendor packages, and external libraries. This article introduces the Drupal Updater, a console tool helper designed to automate the tedious process of updating these components...
- Jorge Tutor
25 March, 2025
VLSuite: web pages in record time
This article introduces VLSuite, a powerful tool for building websites in Drupal quickly and easily. Designed for users of all experience levels.
- Antonio Núñez
18 March, 2025
Metadrop February 2025: Security reinforcements, dark mode expansion & Open Source innovation
A roundup of our latest work to help you build better Drupal sites, February, 2025.
- Jorge Tutor
- Ricardo Sanz

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