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I've started working on maintaining Views Data Export again. I've decided to document my work in 2 week 'sprints'. And so this article is about what I did in Sprint 2. Sprint progress At the start of the sprint in the Drupal.org issue queue there were: 91 open bugs 17 fixed issues. 81 other open issues That's a total of 189 open issues. By the end it looked like this: 48 open bugs 4 fixed...

As explained in the previous article in the series I've started working on maintaining Views Data Export again. I've decided to document my work in 2 week 'sprints'. And so this article is about what I did in Sprint 1. Sprint progress At the start of the sprint there in the Drupal.org issue queue there were: 204 open bugs 276 other open issues. So that's a total of 480 open issues. By the end it...

Views data export is a module that's in use by over 100,000 sites but hasn't been maintained very well by me over the years. This is the story and the plans for getting back into healthy maintainership.

We use platform.sh to host many of our client Drupal sites, and many of those sites use Solr. In this guide we talk through quickly matching the Solr configuration used by platform.sh and DDEV.

Keeping a PaaS product online at all times comes with a high level of responsibility. In early 2024 we set up a proof of concept setup with Cloudflare, which would allow us to make a significant ongoing cost saving whilst also playing with some really cool APIs.

Drupal's form API has been brilliant for many years. Still, recently I found myself wondering why I needed to build a configuration form if I already had a schema for my config. Defining a schema facilitates API-first validation (including some pretty smart constraints), specific typing (e.g. actual booleans or integers instead of '0' or '1' strings), and even translation in Drupal. That last part got me thinking; if Drupal automatically provides translation forms for typed...

When I upgraded a site from Drupal 10.1 to 10.2, I discovered a particularly serious bug: the login form on our client's site vanished ... which was pretty serious for this site which hid all content behind a login!

Drush, the brilliant command-line tool for Drupal, is capable of giving you its output in several ways. Its global --format parameter can be set to a type that you can use in useful ways. Most recently, I found this incredibly useful when I had made some configuration changes through Drupal's admin pages, and needed to then script those changes to automatically apply to hundreds of sites on a platform we manage. I simply asked Drush...

I recently produced the first release of the Webform Protected Downloads module that is compatible with Drupal 10. It provides the ability for sites to have 'gated' content which users can download once they have filled out a form for their details. This can convert engaged visitors into leads, set up licenses for customers, or simply validate a user for access to a file. Put simply, as the project's description says, this module could be...

In my previous article I outlined that I really needed to get Drupal 10 sites running in Aegir 3. I had no time to wait around for other solutions, and I was going to try to decouple Aegir from running Drupal sites, so that it wouldn't be tied to Drupal versions. Since writing that article and actually sitting down to do this work, I realised that it's quite an undertaking, and the approach outlined by...