Drupal Development

Acquia has released new AI-driven capabilities for its next-generation SaaS CMS, Acquia Source. The platform now features three built-in agents for AI-powered site building, content creation, and governance, reducing marketing bottlenecks and infrastructure burdens. ...more

In his latest blog post, Kevin Gautreau demonstrates how Drupal developers can dynamically generate menu items using menu derivatives. By building a custom deriver class, he shows how to automatically list nodes of a specific content type inside a submenu—removing the need to manually maintain links in YAML files. ...more

Matt Glaman announced that he has completed updates to the render cache chapter of his upcoming book, Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers. After realizing two years had passed since his last update, he is now resuming active writing, incorporating Drupal 10.2’s variation cache and preparing the manuscript for publication on LeanPub. ...more

Episode 3 of the FlowDrop Behind-the-Scenes series introduces the standalone Svelte-based workflow editor built outside Drupal’s admin system and unveils a new OpenAPI spec that allows FlowDrop to run on Laravel, Django, WordPress, and other frameworks — making it a reusable visual automation tool beyond Drupal. ...more

Pravesh Poonia has announced the upcoming release of the Canvas SDC Starterkit, a theming tool designed to streamline building Single Directory Components (SDCs) for Drupal Canvas. With Storybook integration and minimal setup (just a YAML and a Twig file required), this open‑source starter kit promises to merge front‑end workflows with Drupal’s backend power—ideal for theme developers and component libraries. ...more

Dries Buytaert has shared a setup guide for developers contributing to the Drupal Piece in Activepieces. The post outlines the steps required to configure a local development environment that supports full code contributions, unlike the Docker-based setup used for general testing. ...more

In the fifth part of his Unmanaged Files in Drupal series, Jeff Greenberg demonstrates how to enhance the custom Twig function introduced earlier to make it more versatile. By allowing developers to return either a file URL or a fully rendered image tag directly from Twig, this method streamlines theme development and showcases how to safely return HTML using the is_safe option. ...more

Four Kitchens’ Laura Johnson explores how AI can speed up Drupal module testing without compromising quality. Through a hands-on experiment with unit, kernel, and functional tests, she discovered that while AI isn’t perfect, it can become a consistent partner when guided by a structured ruleset. The post outlines practical strategies and common pitfalls for integrating AI into automated testing workflows. ...more

Want finer control over how files appear on your Drupal site? This fourth installment shows how to bypass blocks and render unmanaged files using a custom Twig template. Learn to register your own theme hook, pass variables from a controller, and embed precise markup—perfect for developers who prefer code over configuration. ...more

This curated list by The DropTimes features Drupal modules that enhance AI automation and workflow management. It showcases tools for content syncing, moderation, rule-based automation, and multilingual publishing, all designed to streamline editorial operations and scale Drupal sites efficiently. ...more

Senior Drupal developer Pavel Kasianov has released Field Revision History, a new Drupal 11 module that adds per‑field revision viewing and restoration to node edit forms. Editors can now see who changed a field and when, and restore past values without reverting an entire node revision. ...more

Drupak’s guide explains how to add a Composer package from a GitHub repository—a useful workflow for custom or forked Drupal modules not available on Packagist. The post outlines how to verify a repository is Composer-ready, declare it in composer.json, install by branch or tag, and configure private repo access. ...more