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 »The Advomatic Team Reflects on Drupalcon and NTC 2018
Two weeks ago, the Advomatic team divided up and went to both Drupalcon in Nashville and the Nonprofit Tech Conference in New Orleans – they happened at the same time this year. (A few of us went to both!) The short story is: We had a great time and met a lot of people and …
Read more »Diversity and Staying Grounded: Recapping Drupalcon 2018
It was great to get back to DrupalCon this year. I really enjoyed the Con, and this was one of my favorite DrupalCons in the eight years I’ve been going. Drupal as a community is getting more serious about diversity. In the past, there’s been an undercurrent of people saying “diversity is good” for a …
Read more »A Week of Firsts at Drupalcon
I went to DrupalCon this year with the goal of doing things a bit differently this time. I’m a bit of an introvert with people at first, but I’ve been told I don’t come off that way. So, I decided to leverage that and just push myself through things that, in years past, I would …
Read more »Eliminating render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content in Drupal sites
One of the things we do on an annual basis for our clients at Advomatic is an annual site audit – a high level kick-the-tires kind of site inspection. For Drupal sites, we check the logs for any glaring errors, check for overrides in Features, run some SEO and accessibility testing, and, of course, take it …
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