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- Yesterday1h 8m
Talking Drupal #577 - Off The Cuff 14
Today we are talking about Drupal 12, Field UI and UX. We'll also cover DruBOM as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/577 Topics Drupal 12 Release Prep Release Cadence Debate Field UI Modal UX Issues Button Confusion Modal UX Patterns Evidence Based UX Muscle Memory Traps Jakobs Law Explained Listener Feedback PHP Vulnerability Breakdown Security Hygiene Automation Vendor Module Support Resources Drupal 12 Deprecation Status Summary Jakob's law Nielson Laws of UX Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Emma Horrell - emma-horrell MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted a full inventory of everything your Drupal site is built from, checked against public security advisories, and exportable as a standard SBOM? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: DruBOM - Drupal Bill of Materials (SBOM) Brief history How old: created in Oct 2023 by Paolo Mainardi (paolomainardi) of SparkFabrik, and rewritten this fall Versions available: 1.0.0-beta4, which works with Drupal 11.3 and 12 Maintainership Actively maintained, latest release and latest commit both just this past Sunday Security coverage: opted in, though there's no stable release yet Test coverage Documentation: an in-depth README, plus separate docs on the advisory sources and on scanning in CI Number of open issues: 4 open issues, none of which are bugs, and one of them is the plan for a stable release Usage stats: 9 sites Module features and usage SBOM stands for software bill of materials, a list of every component a site is built from, with its version, license, and source. Auditors, security teams, and customers are asking for them more and more DruBOM takes a snapshot that covers the PHP runtime and its extensions, Composer packages, Drupal modules and themes, asset libraries like jQuery and CKEditor 5, and npm, Yarn, and pnpm lockfiles in your themes and modules Anything it can't read shows up as a coverage gap. Gaps are always listed, never hidden Advisory checks are opt-in. You can check against drupal.org security advisories, the Packagist advisory database, OSV.dev for npm, and the PHP project's own advisories Packages from private repositories are never sent out, and you can list private npm scopes to keep them out of advisory checks too Findings that appear in the CISA or ENISA catalogs of known exploited vulnerabilities get flagged and go to the top of the list For each finding you can record a decision on whether your site is actually affected, called a VEX statement. A decision applies only to that exact package version and gets confirmed again after each new snapshot The admin dashboard under Reports has an interactive dependency map, so you can see which Drupal project brought in some deep npm package For CI, drush drubom:check can fail a pipeline when open findings hit a severity threshold, and the export is a standard SPDX 3.0.1 document ready for auditors Under the hood, it's all pure PHP now. The original version wrapped the Syf
- 1 weeks ago1h 19m
Talking Drupal #576 - Inside & Outside Drupal AI
Today we are talking about AI, Drupal, and what's new with guests Dr. Christoph Breidert & Scott Falconer. We'll also cover Drupal AI Demo as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/576 Topics Inside vs Outside AI Agent Permissions and Scoping Drupal Org and GitLab Future Outside AI Examples Teaser Why CMS Still Matters Agent Swarms Expose Data Shadow IT And Liability CMS As Context Engine Content Governance At Scale Provenance And Regulation MCP And Client Integrations Rosetta Sprint Challenges Keeping Up With AI Resources Drupal AI Initiative: introducing Inside AI and Outside AI Guests Christoph Breidert - 1xINTERNET.com breidert Scott Falconer - managing-ai.com scott-falconer 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 try out all of Drupal's AI features on a realistic site, and then pop the hood to see exactly how they're configured? There's a demo for that. Module name/project name: Drupal AI Demo https://new.drupal.org/ai/demo Brief history How old: project created on Oct 4, 2026 by Christoph Breidert (breidert), a Drupal AI Product Lead, with support from 1xINTERNET, FreelyGive, and Foster Interactive. The demo itself was revealed in the Driesnote at DrupalCon Rotterdam The demo runs on Drupal CMS with the Drupal AI modules, running on Drupal 11.4 Maintainership Looks to be actively maintained Documentation: the project has a README that is really clear about what you can try and who has access to what Number of open issues: 83, 2 of which are bugs Module features and usage The demo is a site for Northmoor University, a fictional coastal university, with realistic programs, news, events, people, and images You launch your own copy for free through Drupal Forge. No install, no config, no credit card, and AI credits are included, courtesy of amazee.ai. Each demo instance lasts 30 days Features include AI search with cited answers, page generation in Canvas, content review, auto-classification, translation, image validation, image generation and alt text, AI disclosure labels, observability, and an MCP server so tools like Claude can work with the site's content Each feature has a step-by-step explainer page in an "AI Features" section, right in the demo site The best part is you have full admin access, so every agent, prompt, index, and view is right there to inspect, tweak, or rebuild on your own site Lots of the features are public recipes you can use today, like AI Answers, AI Image Alt Text, AI Content Classification, and AI SEO Optimizer The big caveat: the ai_demo project is really a placeholder. It's the README plus the issue queue. The actual build (content, theme, demo-specific recipes, deployment) lives in a private GitLab repo for Drupal AI Partners</l
- 1 weeks ago51 min
TD Cafe #021 - Meet Tim Sharp
In a Talking Drupal Cafe conversation, Stephen Cross chats with recent Talking Drupal Guest Host, Tim "Tea Sharp," a relatively new Drupal user at Appalachian State University, starting with a light discussion about a 3:00 PM drink before digging into Tim's path from sustainability science and design through nonprofit work, WordPress site building, and finally Drupal in higher ed. Tim describes learning Drupal 7, discovering Views, and then helping his team manually consolidate hundreds of departmental subdomain sites while migrating to Drupal 10 using a product approach and a shared distribution initially built with Lullabot. He discusses training and documentation for non-technical site managers, professional development through DrupalCon Atlanta and Drupal Camp Asheville, interest in Drupal AI for tasks like alt text generation, and aspirations to keep speaking, contribute more, and improve module discoverability and documentation. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/cafe021 Topics Finding Talking Drupal From Sustainability to Design Pandemic Pivot to Web WordPress Site Builder Era Discovering Drupal at App State Drupal 10 Rebuild and Consolidation Team Structure and Iteration AI in Drupal Workflows Upgrade Blockers Cleared Aspiring Drupal Speaker Raycast Productivity Talk Stage Fright Reframed Posting Beyond Comfort Finding a Username Joining Talking Drupal Better Module Discovery Open Source Burnout Lessons Why More TD Cafe Final Encouragement Tim Sharp Tim is a self-taught Web Developer at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. At App State, he works with a team of developers to support over 300 websites. Tim is passionate about community organizing and recently became a co-organizer of Drupal Camp Asheville. Stephen Cross Stephen is the founder of Talking Drupal and Drupal Developer. Guests Tim Sharp - tea-sharp Stephen Cross - stephencross
- 2 weeks ago1h 7m
Talking Drupal #575 - The Drupal Advocacy Program
Today we are talking about Drupal Advocacy, Non-Code Contribution, and the future with guest Tiffany Farriss. We'll also cover Better Social Sharing Buttons as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/575 Topics Tiffany New DA Role Sustaining Drupal Next 25 Time Box And Priorities Three Bucket Strategy Fixing DA Finances Transparency And Trust Trust Through Transparency What Advocacy Solves Why Reputation Lags From Scattered To Focused Beyond The Drupal Bubble Problem First Storytelling Proof Over Promotion Scaling Non Code Contributions Funding Drupal Sustainability Success Metrics Resources Drupal Advocacy Program Guests Tiffany Farriss - association.drupal.org farriss Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Tim Sharp - tea-sharp MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to let visitors share your content on social media, without loading any tracking scripts or third-party JavaScript? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: Better Social Sharing Buttons Brief history How old: created in Aug 2018 by Joery Lemmens (flyke), though recent releases are by Shelane French (shelane) Versions available: 5.0.0, which works with Drupal 10.1, 11, and 12 Maintainership Actively maintained, latest release in July, adding Drupal 12 support Security coverage Number of open issues: 17, 5 of which are bugs against older branches Usage stats: 8,347 sites Module features and usage Supports 16 services, including Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Reddit, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email, plus handy extras like print and copy link Each button is just a plain link to that service's share URL, opening in a new tab. No trackers, no external API calls, no ad servers That's a nice win for performance, and for privacy and GDPR, since nothing third-party loads until a visitor actually clicks You can place it as a block, as a pseudo field on nodes or paragraphs, or call it from Twig with Twig Tweak The global settings form lets you enable services and drag them into order, and each block instance can override that list, the icon set, and the sizing The module comes with two icon sets: colored squares, which become round if you set the radius to 100%, or flat icons you can color with a CSS fill. The colored set also exposes CSS custom properties, so you can re-brand it from your theme The icons are minified SVGs in a single sprite, so they load once no matter how many buttons are on the page There's also a per-node submodule: enable it per content type, and editors with the right permission get a checkbox to turn sharing on or off for individual nodes Under the hood it's nearly all Twig, one template partial per service, with just a little JavaScript for copy link, print, and Bluesky. Copy link even uses an aria-live region to announce the confirmation to screen readers The block uses the current page's URL and title, so it works on user and term pages too, while the field version shares the node's own URL and title Developers can tweak
- 3 weeks ago1h 16m
Talking Drupal #574 - UN Open Source Week
Today we are talking about the UN, Open Source, and Drupal with guests Tim Lehnen & Henry Poole. We'll also cover Live Update as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/574 Topics What Is UN Open Source Week Why Open Source Fits UN Goals Who Attends and What Tech Is There Conference Audience and DPI DPG Drupal as a Digital Public Good UN Uses Drupal at Scale Why Attend and What to Gain Upstream First Contracting Open Procurement Curriculum Reaching Procurement Conferences Steering Spend Upstream Funding Open Source Legally Talking Louder Beyond Drupal Digital Sovereignty Explained Governance Values Matter Fixing Funding Perception Community Next Steps Closing Resources Appalachia Omar Mohsine Digital public infrastructure - DPI Digital public good - DPG ShareIT act Agencies need to use open source PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-17951/pdf/COMPS-17951.pdf Ditap NCMA Sovereign tech agency Palantir blog Eva black - Four opens FSF - Four freedoms Drupal's open web manifesto https://www.drupal.org/association/open-web-manifesto https://openwebsitealliance.org/charter.html#open-web-manifesto Guests Henry Poole - civicactions.com henry-poole Tim Lehnen - drupal.org hestenet Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Tim Sharp - tea-sharp MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted parts of your Drupal pages, like blocks, views, or notifications, to update in real time without a page refresh, and without having to stand up extra infrastructure to do it? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/liveupdate" target= "_blank" rel="noopener ugc nofo
- Oct 8, 20261h 7m
Talking Drupal #573 - Off The Cuff #13
Today we are talking about Drupalcon Rotterdam, Canvas and evaluating modules. We'll also cover Revision Graph as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/573 Topics DrupalCon Rotterdam recap AI summits and training FrankenPHP app servers Driesnote highlights Advocacy and WordPress Rosetta Sprint and MCP Canvas multilingual and headless 3Frameworks And Voiceover Canvas And SDCs Headless And Signage Drupal 12 Beta Testing Rector And Deprecations PHP 8.5 Requirements Rethinking Module Evaluation AI And Commit Scale Module Discoverability 0Distributions Versus Recipes Resources Wordpal Core metrics Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com <span data-position="981" dat
- Oct 1, 20261h 12m
Talking Drupal #572 - The PHP Foundation
Today we are talking about PHP, Open Source, and Sustainability with guest Elizabeth Barron. We'll also cover AI Image Classification as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/572 Topics What is the PHP Foundation Language Health Challenges Paid Core Developers Release Infrastructure Foundation Role and Perception Docs and Onboarding Elizabeth Open Source Journey Future of PHP Ecosystem Listener Elephant Question Ecosystem Security Hub Advisory Board Limits Modernizing Mailing Lists Foundation Awareness Push PHP Ambassadors Strategy State of PHP Survey Five Year Vision Community Hour Podcast php.net Design Refresh Resources The PHP Foundation Derek Rethans xdebug Infrastructure https://github.com/derickr Drupal advocacy Link to community hour podcast Php 8.5 Contribute to php article Guests Elizabeth Barron - thephp.foundation elizabethbarron Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Tim Sharp - tea-sharp MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted the images in your Drupal media library to be automatically given alt text, a rich description, and a set of tags, using AI? There's a recipe for that. Module name/project name: AI Image Classification Brief history How old: created in Sep 2025 by Artem Dmitriiev (a.dmitriiev) of 1xINTERNET Versions available: 1.1.1, which requires Drupal 11.2 or newer Maintainership Actively maintained, latest release and commit just two weeks ago Security coverage Number of open issues: 9 open issues, 4 of which are bugs Usage stats: No usage data reported Module features and usage This recipe applies core's image media type recipe, then adds a description field and a tags field to image media, with tags in a new "Image Classification" vocabulary Editors get a "Generate Alt Text" button right on the image field, using the Field Widget Actions module, with a prompt written like an accessibility expert: under 100 characters, no "image of", flag logos and graphics On save, a vision model writes a description of up to eight sentences: colours, photo versus illustration, people, mood, and key objects, using the media name for context Tagging is chained off that description rather than the image itself, picking or creating up to five short, general terms, and reusing similar existing tags where it can It also adds bulk actions to the media admin view, so you can run descr
- Sep 24, 20261h 5m
Talking Drupal #571 - GovHub
Today we are talking about GovHub, Drupal in Government, and Why Governments Love Drupal with guest Jasmyne Epps. We'll also cover Convivial Gov Site Template as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/571 Topics GovHub Origins and Goals Feature Requests and Governance Why Government Chooses Drupal Team Structure and Release Cadence Accessibility and Compliance Strategy Hosting Model and Multisite Structured Content and Microcontent Syndication and Emergency Alerts Orchard Design System Explained Training and Onboarding Editors Gov Talks Conference Logo Specs and Releases Ticket Prioritization PRICE QA Workflow with Tugboat Handling Traffic Spikes Drupal 11 Performance Talk Drupal 11 Upgrade Gotchas Getting Users Excited Translation Strategy Limits Why Government Loves Drupal Resources GovHub The Bug Stops Here — The State of Georgia Shifts Left (GovCon 2025 presentation with Jasmyne Epps and James Sansbury) Accelerating an ambitious migration and development project (GovHub + Tugboat migration story) Logo page Public facing knowledge base Orchard design system (P)Rice (P)olitics - (R)each - (I)mpact - (C)onfidence - (E)ffort Luma Guests Jasmyne Epps - jasmyneepps.com jasmyneepps Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Amber Matz - tugboatqa.com [amber himes matz](https://www.drupal.org/u/amber himes matz) MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to stand up a polished, accessible government website in Drupal (with components, content types, SEO, and cookie consent all wired up) without writing any code? There's a site template for that. Module name/project name: Convivial Gov Brief history Created in March 2026 by Morpht, the shop behind the Convivial family — with Ivan Zugec leading the maintainer team. Versions available: 1.3.3, which works with Drupal 11 Maintainership Actively maintained: release just last week, on September 16th Security coverage Test coverage: functional tests for install and validation, plus a kernel requirements test. Documentation there's a full handbook over at docs.morpht.com<
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