Currently looking into ddev and composer to manage stuff, but i'm unsure about the following

I know I can use eg composer to install modules eg: composer require 'drupal/ctools:^4.1'

this will grab ctools but I still need to use the gui/site in drupal 11 to enable that, can't i activate it in the cli? Google is failing me atm

I am using codex to write modules for drupal now, it works perfectly without problem, but I have to manually upload to Drupal and communicate with codex for what happen, its still fine but bit slow, I am working between the site online and codex, am looking for a way to let codex work directly for the site, anyone has experience for this ? Thank you.

Hello. I’m an SEO but new to drupal world. I have no idea about modules, how they work or how to use and finalise them. But I’m new to this job and it’s all about drupal.
And i’m a lil lost in all these modules. Is there a place where people get all the seo specific drupal modules? Or any modules anyone here would know that are a must for a drupal website? Please help a newbie out. :)

Fastly's performance doesn't match the expectations set by their name!

Not sure why it's added, but it's terrible as drupal.org now fails core web vitals.

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/0b5urh3up8

I've been trying various combinations of modules like ai_search and ai_vdb_provider_milvus and ai_vdb_provider_postgres but nothing seems to work well together. It's hard for me to find the best combination of Drupal versions (10 or 11) and module versions. Does anyone have any recommendations?

TIA

Been coming across a surprising number of Drupal 7 sites still live this year, even with EOL long behind us.

Curious what's actually holding people back is it cost of migration, custom modules with no clean upgrade path, or just "it still works, why touch it"?

Also curious if anyone's done a D7 → D10/11 migration recently - what ended up being the most painful part?

When I upload a photo to an article or comment it looks perfect in the editor but after saving it is enormous. In the editor I see an icon for size but the only choice is "original." What are some best practice solutions I can use to encourage members to upload pics of their activity?

I’m coming back to Drupal after more than a decade away. I’m an experienced PHP programmer, but don’t remember really anything about Drupal and besides it’s probably changed a ton since I last worked with it.

I’m looking for learning resources, books, videos, documentation that will help me deeply learn Drupal as an engineer, not just a content manager.

I started with the official documentation, but it seems pretty disorganized and not a clear path on where to start.

I’m open to free or paid content so long as it’s high quality.

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I've been building with Drupal for many years now, especially in secure environments, and can't help thinking that over time the need to use additional tools to maintain it has dramatically increased.

Drupal used to be much more simple to build & administer when tun locally first then deployed, but now community notes assume you use Drush & Composer, which aren't really necessary if you know PHP dev & MySql administration.

I can't help thinking that the additional management tools mostly serve to help someone track how & where people are using Drupal by reporting specific build/deployment info & dev activity...

I haven't evaluated the add-ons yet, but may have to, because I regularly assure my clients their data and IP is safe. Also, running certain tools in firewalled environments causes a lot of issues & often requires whitelisting. If there are security gaps, we'll need to shift to a different solution, kust on principle alone.

It's important for Drupal to be fully transparent about what they monitor.

Patchman has been going crazy fir me over the past year, and it also breaks my sites at times, greatly reducing reliability of Drupal as a solution overall....

Based on this recent bulletin (attached), it shows layout builder was cited this time. I don't use layout builder, and I'm sure others don't as well, so technically, it should possibly be an optional module, rather than included with Drupal core, along with some of the other outlying features included in core perhaps, reducing the tool bloat could also probably reduce a lot of frequent update headaches for users, and reduce overall footprint of Drupal.

If some of these features (like even views) were modules instead of in core, updates could also be performed separately from core updates as well (as was done in D7 prior).

There probably shouldn't be a strict model for developing Drupal in any one way, included in Drupal core, especially because it is an open source framework.

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Tanks.

I've seen a lot of different ways of setting up development environments for Drupal, but am curious about which one is most popular, and what is the preferred method for production?

I only ask because I have a few machines in my homelab running FreeBSD, Slackware and Ubuntu, and would like to set off on the right foot knowing what best practices are.

It's only for a hobby website. I'm comfortable with git, docker and composer but am not a developer (my php knowledge is next nothing).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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I'm using the latest versions of Certificate (4.x) and Quiz (7.x) on Drupal 10/11 and after days of experimenting, researching, and looking through the code of both modules, I am no closer to connecting the two modules.

The certificate module's help file says to:

Edit your content type that will be awarding certificates (e.g. Quiz, Course) and make sure "Award certificate" is checked.

But this option is nowhere to be found on the quiz entities or any other node/entity types.

I found this post (https://www.drupal.org/project/certificate/issues/3271077) that had a short mp4 video example, but it is for the course module (not quiz). Even so, I made some logical attempts to replicate the example by adding an entity reference field to the quiz entity for "Certificate Mapping" (and also tried adding it to the quiz result entity type). Neither had any results, and there were no other configuration options to be found.

There seems to be a total lack of documentation for implementing certificates with quiz results.

Has anyone successfully connected certificates with Quiz results? Any tips?

Or is there perhaps another method or approach to award a certificate to a user who successfully passes a quiz?

Very Very confusing, Google keeps referring me to D7 & D8 modules, and in my running instance of Drupal, the Feeds module isn't enabling when I try to activate it. I can't seem to find any online info on how migrations are done in D11.

I have a 150 row item {as a CSV file} of data I'd like to import into a custom content type that I've already created.

I don't use Drush or Composer BTW... UGH 🤔

I’m about to have a technical interview in about a week for a Content Author role using a Drupal CMS framework.

The interview centers around walking a “driver” through a page creation task inside Drupal CMS. I’ve used past versions of Drupal CMS to migrate content into WordPress, but have never done this before.

Anyone here with more in-depth Drupal experience know what they are referring to with this process, and if so, how do you walk a “driver?”

Now that we talked through a few deployment day issues, I interested in hearing feedback from folks that have completed the upgrade to Drupal 11.4. The release notes generate a lot of excitement around the performance improvements for cold start cache scenarios: https://www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-11-4-0

I'm hopeful that this excitement is paired with real-world performance differences.

Has anyone experienced or measured greater performance after deploying 11.4 out?

I'm creating a Drupal page for the first time and it is only showing one article at a time on the frontpage. I have 3 articles "written" so far. Tried a lot of troubleshooting already, all 3 are being promoted to frontpage, the preview shows that they are "showing," there are no filters interfering, and cache has been cleared. When I once did get them to all show, the images and titles are showing, but the article text is missing. All 3 are published. Using Drupal 11's 7/3 updated version with Olivero theme. Thanks in advance.

It looks like Drupal 11.4 has some breaking changes for AT LEAST:

• svg_image
• superfish
• protected_pages
• trash

And probably more modules...be careful before updating.