Tutorials

Randy Fay explains how Xdebug step debugging works inside DDEV — and why understanding its reverse connection model prevents hours of frustration when things go wrong. His guide walks through Docker networking, IDE listeners, and built-in tools like ddev utility xdebug-diagnose, turning debugging failures into clear, actionable fixes across macOS, Linux, and WSL2. ...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

In a recent post, Mark Conroy shares a practical debugging walkthrough for one of Drupal’s most misleading frontend issues: CSS breaking only in certain environments when aggregation is enabled. The post reframes these failures as likely symptoms of merge conflicts, syntax errors, or corrupted theme files rather than aggregation itself. It’s a reminder that many “platform bugs” are often simple code mistakes. ...more

A Droptica blog post demonstrates how Drupal’s AI Automators and Field Widget Actions modules can reduce editorial research time by embedding AI-powered content generation directly into content forms. ...more

George Bonnici explains how Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI tools to interact directly with Drupal sites, bypassing scraping and manual workflows. The tutorial shows how Drupal can act as an MCP server using a small set of modules and standard tooling. The focus is on practical setup and real use cases for content teams and developers. ...more

The robots.txt file plays a key role in how search engines crawl Drupal sites. An ImageX Media blog post outlines how Drupal’s default configuration works and what site owners should consider when managing it for SEO. ...more

Ivan Zugec of WebWash outlines how DDEV simplifies local Drupal development. His tutorial walks through setup, essential commands, database handling, debugging, and IDE integration for streamlined workflows. ...more

Joachim Noreiko walks through using Rector to convert procedural Drupal hooks into object-oriented methods. The tutorial covers installation, rule setup, and post-processing with PHPCS for Drupal code style. ...more

Dries Buytaert documents a daily script that exports his Drupal site content to GitHub as Markdown, using SSH-based deployment and a custom Drush module. ...more

SimpleSAMLphp is blocking Drupal 11 upgrades due to conflicting dependencies. Robert Arias from Four Kitchens offers a migration path using the SAML Authentication module, which avoids these issues and ensures future readiness. ...more

The OpenAI module offers Drupal site builders a practical way to bring AI tools like ChatGPT into content editing, development, and testing workflows. Originally built for Drupal 10, the module’s submodules and configuration options enable features such as AI‑assisted text, summarisation, editing assistance in CKEditor 5, and more. ...more

This tutorial guides you through creating a custom Tailwind CSS theme for Drupal Canvas, including theme generation, build tooling with Vite, region setup, preprocess functions, and reusable components. The post is aimed at developers integrating utility‑first styling with Drupal’s Canvas page builder. ...more