Drupal 8

This post is an updated part of our Marketer's Guide to Drupal series. This guide will walk you through considerations for choosing an open source CMS, plus case studies and CMO advice to bring your site to the next level.

Supercharge SEO with Drupal

“Over the last 20 years, Drupal has grown into one of the largest enterprise content management systems in the world.” - Drupal Founder Dries Buytaert

For your Drupal site, the launch is just the beginning. It is essential for long-term success to constantly question what more can be done to exceed your organization’s goals. In this post, we will help you understand the value of Drupal support and back to the open source community.

Why Drupal Support?

Behind every great Drupal website, there's a support plan in place for ongoing maintenance. 

This post is a part of our Marketer's Guide to Drupal 8 series. We created this guide to walk you through considerations for choosing an open source CMS, plus case studies and CMO advice to bring your site to the next level.

Before you engage with a new agency to build, redesign, or migrate your site, there are some key data points you should know about your existing site.

Configuration System in Drupal 8 is a new suite of tools that allow us to take config and make it exportable. In this post, I am going to outline three items you need to know to begin working with the configuration system.

Terminology

Config vs Content 

It is important to note that not all data in Drupal are created equally.  There is a concept of configuration and content.  I like this distinction made in Drupal’s config API docs:

This post is a part of our Marketer's Guide to Drupal 8 series. We created this guide to walk you through considerations for choosing an open source CMS, plus case studies and CMO advice to bring your site to the next level.

This post is a part of our Marketer's Guide to Drupal 8 series. We created this guide to walk you through considerations for choosing an open source CMS, plus case studies and CMO advice to bring your site to the next level.

As marketers, we understand the importance of having a system that promotes ease and efficiency when it comes to implementing marketing processes. You want to create content once and use it over and over in different ways to create contextual user experiences. 

The target audience of this post is primarily developers charged with maintaining a site on Pantheon, and who would like to offload regression testing to a machine, in this case Jenkins. The test framework used is Behat but the approach should be translatable to your framework of choice.

The ultimate goal is to have Jenkins execute Behat tests, against the appropriate Pantheon environment, whenever application code for that environment is updated.

This post is a part of our Marketer's Guide to Drupal 8 series. We created this guide to walk you through considerations for choosing an open source CMS, plus case studies and CMO advice to bring your site to the next level.

From higher education to healthcare, media to manufacturing, and government to technology, Mediacurrent has seen the digital challenges—both similar and distinct—faced by the different industries we serve.  

With Drupal 8.6 coming out early September this year, I thought it was important to talk a little bit about one of the features that has me most excited: a one line command to run Drupal locally that ships in core.

You may be asking yourself, “how important can one command really be?”  To answer that, I want to share my experience with a discouraging first core sprint.

The UI Patterns module is gaining a lot of traction as an effective way to integrate design patterns and components with Drupal 8, but what if you are still using Drupal 7? The PatternKit module is a viable solution for your site.