Drupal

The Digital Center of Excellence questions whether Drupal’s biggest challenge today is not technical strength but brand clarity, leadership alignment, and positioning in a WordPress-dominated CMS landscape. ...more

A new Drupal contrib module, Requirements Manager, gives administrators control over which warnings appear in the Status Report — replacing custom hook implementations with documented, exportable configuration. ...more

Suzanne Dergacheva argues that Drupal Canvas reshapes first impressions of Drupal for marketing and content teams. Writing on 17 February 2026, she explains how the visual editing layer within Drupal CMS balances experimentation, autonomy and governance, positioning Canvas as a tool that could strengthen cross-departmental CMS adoption. ...more

Drupal developer Robert Menetray describes how he structures AI-assisted Drupal development using a “20-60-20” model: human planning, AI execution and final human validation. He argues that detailed specifications and robust automated testing enable extended autonomous AI work, while disciplined review remains essential for quality, security and long-term maintainability. ...more

Most Drupal security advisories stem from preventable implementation mistakes rather than novel exploits. After reviewing two years of advisories and patches, Pierre Rudloff identified recurring patterns affecting contributed modules and documented them in the Drupal Security Tips repository. The findings offer maintainers a structured framework to audit their code and reduce avoidable risk. ...more

Jeremy Andrews, Founding Partner and CEO of Tag1, has published a guide outlining an AI-enhanced site search architecture that avoids vector databases and embedding pipelines. The approach layers query expansion, summaries, and conversational follow-up onto traditional keyword search. ...more

Ashraf Abed has proposed that leading PHP open-source communities consider unifying behind a single framework as a response to talent constraints, ecosystem fragmentation and long-term sustainability concerns. While rejecting any merger of codebases, Abed argues that consolidating communities could strengthen developer pipelines, reduce duplicated effort and restore strategic confidence in PHP-driven platforms. ...more

Nadiia Nykolaichuk of ImageX explains how Drupal’s Inline Entity Form module transforms the way editors manage interconnected content, reducing friction and eliminating repetitive workflows on content-heavy websites. ...more

Amrendra Mourya reflects on how Drupal’s structured content architecture and the MERN stack’s JavaScript-driven flexibility can work together in modern web development. In his LinkedIn article, he argues that hybrid, layered architectures often offer more value than framing platforms as competitors. ...more

The Drupal nonprofit community will meet on 19 February 2026 for its monthly Drupal for Nonprofits chat. Sponsored by NTEN, the free online call invites developers and nonprofit users to join an open discussion without a fixed agenda. Participants may propose topics in advance through a shared collaborative document. ...more

A free live webinar on Drupal Canvas will take place on 20 February 2026 from 13:00 to 14:00 EST. Hosted by Suzanne Dergacheva of Evolving Web and featuring Matt Glaman of Acquia and Maya Schaeffer of the Drupal Association, the session will include a live drag-and-drop demo and an overview of how Canvas fits within Drupal CMS for accessible and scalable websites. ...more