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- 2 days ago1h 16m
Talking Drupal #563 - Drupito: More Than a Marketplace
Today we are talking about Drupito, its Business model, and Marketplaces with guest Ashraf Abed. We'll also cover Generate (Social Media) Image as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/563 Topics Meet Drupalito and the Mission Platform Layers and Roadmap Pricing and New Markets Marketplace Success Stories Exportability and Vendor Lock In Growing the Drupal Ecosystem Derivatives and Recurring Revenue Rebuilding on Drupedo Funding Drupal Association Global Community Check In Migrating Sites to Drupedo Marketplace Vision Shift Maintenance and Incentives Safe Updates Blue Green Testing Mindset for Templates Official Marketplace Collaboration Agency Revenue and Partnerships Niche Derivatives and Pricing Launch Plans and Vetting Resources Code that ships Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ashraf Abed - drupito.com ashrafabed Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy MOTW Correspondent Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy Brief description: Have you ever wanted Drupal to generate dynamic social media images using tokenized node data, similar to the share images on GitHub repos or Reddit threads? There's a module for that Module name/project name: Generate (Social Media) Image Brief history How old: Created by tfranz of Germany on 22 April 2022 Versions available: 1.x-dev, 2.0.0-beta2, published a few weeks ago by our own Martin Anderson-Clutz Maintainership Minimally (although now slightly more actively) maintained No Security coverage (yet) Passing GitLab CI tests Well fleshed out README for docs Number of open issues: 8 open issues, 0 of which are bugs against the current branch, but there are lots of feature requests Usage stats: 1 site reports using this module Module features and usage GSMI requires an image style that uses a "Text Overlay" effect — this comes from the Image Effects module and lets you burn tokenized (or static) text onto an image. Normally, when Drupal generates an image style derivative, there's no entity in scope — it's just processing a file — so a token like [node:title] would resolve to nothing. GSMI's real contribution is the glue: when it builds a derivative for a specific node, it swaps in the node-resolved text before generating the image. That's what makes entity-aware tokens work inside an effect that otherwise only sees global tokens. Once the image style exists, GSMI's settings form lets you pick a source image field on the node — an image field or a media-reference field — plus a fallback image for when that's empty. From there it generates the styled derivative from that source image, for any node of any content type that has the field. Finally, GSMI exposes its own token — [node:generate-style], with optional style/field overrides — so you're not locked into the one global style/field pair configured in the settings form. I used that to drop the generated image into Metatag's og_image field for the Session content type on the MidCamp site, getting us dynamically generated session images.. A couple of gotchas we hit setting this up: Text Overlay's layout options have some bugs,
- 1 weeks ago1h 8m
Talking Drupal #562 - Acquia Fair Trade Initiative
Today we are talking about Supporting Open Source, Acquia, and The Acquia Fair Trade Initiative with guest James Sims. We'll also cover Image Effects as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/562 Topics Fair Trade Initiative Explained How the Program Started Why Fair Trade Matters Adoption and Open Framework Agency and Freelancer Benefits Partner Funded Giving Who Can Be Makers Tracking Participation Tax Deduction Questions Community Shaped Program Money Counts Too Early Challenges Timeline And Launch Sustainability Built In How To Get Involved Defining Success Origins Of Fair Trade Resources Acquia Fair Trade Initiative Taste of chicago Giordanos Lou's pizza Five For The Future Image Convolution Playground Guests James Sims - rcjmselp85 Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy MOTW Correspondent Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy Brief description: Have you ever gone to edit an image style in Drupal, looked at the list of filters, and said "give me more! I want more!". Have you said "I'd like to mirror, filter, and convolute an image in Drupal - all at the same time". If so, you're in luck. Let me introduce you to our module of the week: Module name/project name: Image Effects Brief history How old: Created by Drupal user mondrake of Italy on 17 September 2015. It's also the successor to the ImageCache Actions module, which was created all the way back in 2008. Versions available: It has a 4.0.0 version available with Drupal 10 and 11 support, and a 5.0.0 version for Drupal 11.3 and above. Maintainership Actively maintained Security coverage Test coverage Documentation It has a full README with details about the available image styles and whether they are supported by the GD or ImageMagick PHP libraries. Number of open issues: 35 open issues, 3 of which are bugs against the current branch. (The current branch has only been out a few months, and many of the open issues against prior branches seem to still be relevant.) Usage stats: 35,196 sites report using this module, with most still on the 3.x or 4.x branches. (its predecessor, ImageCache Actions, still has over 25,000 active installs) Module features and usage The module is pulled in just like any other, with composer require and then enable via drush or the UI. Once it's installed there is a very basic settings page, but most folks won't use much on there. The power of Image Effects comes when you go to Config > Media > Image Styles and then edit an Image Style. Once Image Effects is enabled, you'll see over two dozen additional effects in the list. These effects range from simple to complex. In
- 1 weeks ago41 min
TD Cafe #019 - From Drupal to FIRST Robotics
Michael Kinnunen and Steve Wirt share how they each got started with Drupal through higher-ed jobs and stayed for the communit. They compare those community values to FIRST Robotics, explaining FIRST's K–12 programs (FRC, FTC, and FIRST LEGO League), kickoff-style challenges, and the "coopertition" culture where teams help competitors with parts and repairs. Both mentor highschool robotics teams in the US. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/cafe019 Topics Cafe Catch Up Drupal Origin Stories Why Drupal Community What Is FIRST Mentoring Journeys Team Names Numbers Kickoff Build Sprint Coopertition In Action Awards And Impact Drupal for Team Ops Trying Recipes and Canvas Time Investment and Module Fixes Getting Students into Drupal Mentor Load and Teaching Java Student Run Team Culture Robot Ecosystem and Everybot Team Roles and Onboarding Adversity and Grit Lessons FIRST Programs and How to Join Wrap Up and Good Luck Steve Wirt Drupal Developer for CivicActions by day, FIRST Robotics mentor by night Steve has been a Drupal Developer for 19 years and helps government agencies build tools that help improve their mission. He is founding mentor of FRC team Compass Robotics. Michael Kinnunen Backend Engineer for CivicActions Michael has been working with Drupal for about a decade, starting with Drupal 7 in 2016 as a Web Developer at Northern Michigan University. He has also spent the past six years as a mentor for the Negaunee Minerbotics FRC team, where he has helped students build technical skills in programming and engineering. Guests Steve Wirt - swirt Michael Kinnunen - mkinnune Resources FIRST Robotics Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition Michael's team https://github.com/minerbotics https://www.facebook.com/MinerBotics4827/ Steve's team - Compass Robotics
- 2 weeks ago58 min
Talking Drupal #561 - The Aaron Winborn Award
Today we are talking about Aaron Winborn, The award named after him, and what winning is like with guests George DeMet & April Sides. We'll also cover Summit as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/561 Topics Who Was Aaron Winborn Award Origin Story How Winners Are Chosen Why Community Matters What Winners Share April Learns She Won Handcrafted Award Stories On Stage Emotions After Winning Reflections How To Contribute Nominations And Makers Surprise Award Ideas Wrap Up And Contacts Resources TD Cafe #018 - Drupal Site Templates Aaron Winborn Award Winner AskWookiee Guests April Sides - weekbeforenext George DeMet - palantir.net gdemet Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ashraf Abed - drupito.com ashrafabed MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to create a website purpose-built for an event like a Drupal camp, that collects, moderates, and schedules user-submitted sessions, and do all of that within the Drupal CMS installer? There's a site template for that. Module name/project name: Summit Site Template Brief history How old: created in June 2026 by yours truly Versions available: 1.0.0, released yesterday Maintainership Actively maintained Security and test coverage Documentation some in the repo we'll talk about later Number of open issues: no open issues, though there are a couple of open issues on the Event Platform Starter, from which Summit was created Module features and usage We've talked before on this podcast about the Event Platform that grew out of an initiative from the Event Organizers Working Group. The goal is to remove friction for anyone organizing a Drupal camp or similar event in creating a website that sets them up for success The Event Platform was created before Recipes were a thing in the Drupal-verse, even though it was initially built in ways that were similar to recipes A couple of years ago, I started working on the Event Platform Starter recipe to help spin up a fully-built event website in a single step. That ran into some technical complexities, so it ended up being being a time-saver, but still required a number of manual steps As the newer concept of site templates took shape, I could see that the Event Platform ecosystem had the necessary elements to become a site template, in particular a theme and a battle-tested a content architecture I ended up needing to decouple the configuration and the functional code that had previously been in Event Platform. The configuration would reside solely in the site template, so the functional code was moved to a new project, Event Platform Helper Along the way, there have been a number of significant changes: Canvas integration for a fully customizable homepage, also a set of Canvas
- 2 weeks ago1h 4m
Talking Drupal #560 - Content Sync
Today we are talking about Content, syndication, and Synchronization between Drupal Sites with guest Thiemo Müller. We'll also cover Drupal core 11.4 as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/560 Topics Origins and Use Cases Hub Model and Flexibility Media Sync and Governance Composable Pages Challenge Governance With Blocks Canvas And Recipes Real Time Syndication Scaling To Thousands GEO And AEO Explained GEO Audits And Loops ContentSync Recommendations Permissions And Drupal 11 AIM Assess Improve Monitor Boosting Drupal AI Presence Ecosystem Alignment Signals Recency And Messaging Tips Resources Content Sync Content Sync A-I-M Content Sync Drupal Module Deprecated extensions meta issue GEO Generative engine optimization Semrush Peec ai Otterly ai Profound Guests Thiemo Müller - content-sync.io thiemo Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ashraf Abed - drupito.com ashrafabed MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Are you excited for a feature release of Drupal core that delivers even more performance acceleration, a modernized developer experience, and a slew of administrator and editor improvements? Drupal core 11.4 delivers all that and more Module name/project name: Drupal core 11.4 Brief history How old: created on July 1 2026 by catch of Tag1 Changes Performance improvements When Drupal 11.3 was released, we talked about what a massive performance jump it represented, the biggest improvement in a decade. 11.4 has done it again! Database queries are reduced by half, across a range of requests due to optimizations in how entity fields are loaded. Overall, that represents a nearly ⅔ improvement for database and cache lookups on a cold cache compared to Drupal 11.0 or 10.6 Entity listing queries have also been refactored to use fewer table joins, reducing slow queries. Additionally, the link field introduces a resolvable_uri property and token, which returns a ready-to-use front-end link (like /#main-content) right out of the API instead of raw internal URIs, which will be a huge benefit for anyone using Drupal for decoupled and JSON:API-based use cases Applying recipes in Drupal 11.4 is significantly faster, reportedly twice as fast, and that includes installing Drupal CMS Drupal now supports Brotli compression, which should yield 15-25% better compression of CSS and JS assets
- 3 weeks ago41 min
TD Cafe #018 - Drupal Site Templates
Join Martin, Andy and Mike as they discuss what Drupal site templates are and how they differ from Drupal's traditionally bare-bones starting point, aiming to reduce setup effort and total cost of ownership while making Drupal competitive again for small nonprofits and smaller sites. They compare building templates versus client sites, covering the evolution from early Layout Builder/Recipes work to today's simpler packaging via a Drush site:export workflow, plus tooling like DripYard Recipe Builder for extracting reusable "recipe" parts. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/cafe018 Topics Martin Anderson-Clutz Based in London, Ontario, Martin transitioned from graphic design to web development, ultimately specializing in Drupal in 2005. Currently working as a Product Marketing Manager at Acquia, he is Triple Certified in Drupal and UX-certified by the world-renowned Nielsen Norman Group. His key contributions include: As a speaker & writer, presenting at Drupalcamps and Drupalcons, and a published blogger across multiple platforms, including the Acquia Dev Portal and opensource.com; as a podcast host, participating in the Talking Drupal podcast, including as the "Module of the Week" correspondent; and as an open source maintainer, developing and maintaining popular Drupal contrib modules and recipes, including Smart Date and Fullcalendar. Andy Giles Andy is a Drupal back-end developer. In 2012, he founded Blue Oak Interactive, a development and consulting agency focused on complex Drupal site builds, particularly in e-commerce. In 2025, he partnered with Mike Herchel to launch Dripyard, a premium Drupal theme designed to reduce the cost of ownership and enhance the developer experience for modern Drupal projects. Mike Herchel Mike is a founder & developer at Dripyard, and is a longtime contributor to Drupal. He has played a key role in modernizing Drupal's frontend architecture, performance, and accessibility, and is known for helping bring Drupal's component-driven development into mainstream use. Mike has delivered projects for organizations including IBM, the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the U.S. court system. He is a frequent speaker on performance, accessibility, and modern frontend practices. What Are Site Templates Drupal CMS Template Picker Why Templates Matter Building Templates Workflow Recipes And Custom Tooling Canvas And Theme Strategy React Components And AI Drupal 11.4 Compatibility Canvas Patterns Explained Pricing Adoption And AI AI In Their Workflow Internal Templates And Wrap Up Guests Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Andy Giles - andyg5000 Dripyard Mike Herchel - mherchel Dripyard
- Jun 29, 20261h 5m
Talking Drupal #559 - Marketing Drupal
Today we are talking about Marketing, AI, and Drupal with guest Paul Johnson. We'll also cover Curated Colors as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/559 Topics Paul's Current Projects Enterprise AI Summit Details Marketing the AI Initiative Partnering on Event Booths Drupal's Outside Perception What's Working Now Growing the Marketing Team How to Contribute Outside In Storytelling Case Study Examples AI Initiative Impact Roadmap and Launch Planning Finding New Adopters Where Pros Research Conference Pitch Story Local Event Playbook Funnel and Webinars Industry Guides and Demos SEO and AI Search Why Agents Avoid Drupal High Leverage Contributions Measuring AI Mentions Vibe Coders to Governance Fixing Misconceptions Resources Drupal AI Initiative home page Slack #ai-initiative-marketing Enterprise AI Summit Rotterdam AI Dev Summit Rotterdam Drupal AI TV We've curated a selection of the best presentations, workshops and demonstrations freely available to provide a practical way to stay informed about the latest innovations in Drupal AI. Drupal AI Webinars playlist Demos Ryan Whitcombe 1xINTERNET S1xSignals free AIO GEO assessment All things open World cancer day Guests Paul Johnson - pdjohnson Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Falconer - managing-ai.com scott-falconer MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to allow editors on your Drupal site to choose styling from a brand-approved color palette? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: Curated Colors Brief history How old: created in Apr 2026 by Kyle Einecker (ctrladel) of True Summit Versions available: 1.0.0 which works with Drupal 10.3, 11, and 12 Maintainership Actively maintained Security coverage Test coverage Documentation - in-depth README Number of open issues: 2 open issues, neither of which are bugs Usage stats: 27 sites Mo
- Jun 22, 20261h 8m
Talking Drupal #558 - Agent Management System
Today we are talking about AI, Agents, and A System to manage them with guest Luke McCormick. We'll also cover AI Auto-reference as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/558 Topics Introducing Agent Management Origin Story Claude Credits Scrum Meets AI Retention Handoff Protocol Filesystem Why Handoffs Work So Well Examples and Human Loop Agent Roles and Model Costs Choosing Models by Task Not Drupal Specific Works With Any Model Scrum Sprints For Agents Human Cognitive Overload Tuning Autonomy Levels Setup And Handoff File Updating Customized AMS Persistent Memory Artifacts Demand Better Summaries Solo Power With Agents Roadmap And AMS Trio Resources Stanford Web Camp - Agile for Agents – Managing Robots The Way We Manage Humans. AMS Robert Douglas spec kitty xdebug tui ams-trio Guests Luke McCormick - cellear Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to use AI to suggest related content on your Drupal site? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: AI Auto-reference Brief history How old: created in June 2023 by Scott Euser (scott_euser) or Soapbox Versions available: 1.0.0-rc4 Maintainership Actively maintained Security coverage - opted in, needs stable release Test coverage Number of open issues: 4 open issues, 1 of which is a bug Usage stats: 19 sites Module features and usage AI Auto-reference works with any reference fields, so it could find suitable taxonomy terms, nodes, etc It does that by rendering a specified view mode, so it should with any kind of complex layout approach you may have implemented on your site It will also automatically shorten your content to fit within your AI model's token window, which you can also configure The module extends Drupal's main AI module, which means you can select which model to use, and probably means you can also use guardrails, and all the other powerful features that come with that ecosystem Ai Auto-reference comes with default prompts, but you can also edit those if you really want to make sure you're squeezing out every drop of relevance You can also choose for which fields in each content type you want to generate suggestions, as well as whether you want the suggestions should be automatically applied, or whether you want them manually reviewed As mentioned on the project page, you can already have AI suggest things like tags using the AI module without this project, but this may be a better choice if you want to make sure the recommendations stick to an existing set
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