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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Drupal's status report often shows warnings that clutter your admin interface. We built Requirements Manager to hide or modify these requirements through a simple UI instead of writing custom code for every project.

Bot-generated traffic on the internet has grown significantly, negatively impacting website performance and increasing operational costs. This rise is driven by the growth of artificial intelligence, the spread of crawlers used to train models, and the increase in malicious bots...

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...

Drupal manages files through fields in entities but, how do you manage a file in using administration form?