Last week one of our clients was asking me about how they should think about the myriad of options for website hosting, and it inspired me to share a few thoughts. The different kinds of hosting I think about hosting for WordPress and Drupal websites as falling into one of three groups. We’re going …
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AdvoTalk: What should you do with your Drupal 7 website?
Sarah Durham (00:02): Hey everybody. Welcome to today’s webinar. I am Sarah Durham, and I am going to briefly introduce my colleagues. They will talk a little bit more in a minute and also we’d love you to introduce yourself as people start to arrive. If you are comfortable doing so, you’ll see a …
Read more »Adding a WYSIWYG to text fields in Drupal 8 and 9
Need to convert from plain text to formatted text? Learn how to add a WYSIWYG editor to a plain text field in Drupal 8 or 9 with a few lines of code.
Read more »Facing Drupal 7’s end-of-life like a tech rockstar: a nonprofit’s guide to success
Things aren’t going the way you planned. We’re now in a recession, the pandemic has caused unexpected challenges, and your budgets have been cut. Welcome to the summer of 2020. Still, your website is more important than ever. Your donors, clients, members, and advocates are expecting it to be up-to-date, easy-to-use, and bug-free. To add …
Read more »We’ve got your back: planning for Drupal 7 end-of-life
On June 24, 2020 Drupal.org announced that Drupal 7’s end of life has been extended until November 2022 because of the impact of COVID-19 on budgets and capacity. This article still remains relevant– but please note that the dates have been pushed back a year. If you have a Drupal 7 website, you might …
Read more »Planning for Drupal 8 end-of-life — It’s nothing like Drupal 7
You may have read our previous articles about how to plan for Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 End-of-Life. The important thing to know is that the Drupal 8 End-of-Life is nothing like those. In fact, “End of Life” is completely the wrong idea. Instead, it’s more like one of those spa treatments where you get …
Read more »Using Configuration Split to have dev-only configuration in Drupal 8
The problem If you are using Drupal’s Configuration Management subsystem to deploy configuration out to the production environment, you’ll run into a problem where the configuration .yml files contain your development settings. To avoid this you’ll need to use the Configuration Split module. I couldn’t find any good documentation for this, so I had to …
Read more »Infographic: Site Building in Drupal 8
We just launched our first Drupal 8 website for the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA). During our project retrospective, a few of us brought up how nice it was that so many contrib modules that were part of the D6 site weren’t necessary in Drupal 8 – this was a major factor in making it possible to launch …
Read more »Upgrading to Drupal 8: through the client’s eyes
The Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) advocates for healthy marine ecosystems. Through their site, namanet.org, they organize and promote a movement toward a thriving ocean and a just seafood system. Having helped create the original Drupal 6 site for NAMA in 2008, it’s been a rewarding experience re-architecting it in Drupal 8 (beta). The main purpose …
Read more »Building Sites in Drupal 8: First Impressions
We recently finished building our first Drupal 8 site for a client. So I wanted to ask our team, “What did you like about working in Drupal 8?” These were some of the topics they touched on. Content editing Amanda: The UI for editing content is very good, with contextual links much more useful …
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