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After discussing how to avoid entity ID conflicts in the previous article, we are finally ready to start migrating content. The first entity we will focus on is files, covering both public and private file migrations. We will share tips and hacks related to performance optimizations and discuss how to handle files hosted outside of Drupal.

Today Tim Lehnen from the Drupal Association joins us to talk about some of the changes taking place on the Drupal.org website as part of Starshot.

For day 4 of the Drupal Advent calendar, it’s a familiar face: Drupal.org! When we say “Come for the code, stay for the community!” Drupal.org is where we welcome everyone to join us.  Sure, you can find all the code, extensions, and documentation you need here, but Drupal.org is so much more. It’s the place where one of the greatest communities in open source gathers to communicate, collaborate, and celebrate.

Drupal.org is also a part of Drupal…

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• Drupal.org
• Drupal Starshot

This blog expands on my DrupalCon Barcelona talk, which I managed to squeeze into a twenty-minute session slot. You can download a copy of my slides. Unfortunately, I could not dedicate enough time to the project and stepped down as the trial track lead. The Drupal CMS trial is no longer based on my WebAssembly work, and an ongoing process is being conducted to provide an official demo.

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One of our clients is Programming Librarian, a site for librarians to plan educational programs. Programs, like many events, are often seasonal, oriented around holidays and seasonal activities.

The site has a block for each month of the year, containing content for that month. It has a custom field for the month number.

Revolutionizing Content Editing with AI in Drupal

Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool to enhance the process of creating and managing digital content. Drupal, known for its flexibility and robustness as a content management system (CMS), has already started to integrate this new technology, adding exceptional capabilities for generating and improving content.

In this detailed guide, as a showcase, we will demonstrate how to install and configure the modules AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Image Genie AI in Drupal, the first to integrate AI with CKEditor, thereby improving its editing capabilities, such as text generation, tone alterations, or translations, and the second to generate images, enabling the creation of complete content , quickly and efficiently.

It is worth mentioning that these modules are currently in development phase, so their use in production is currently discouraged.

Prerequisites

Today we’re looking at a fairly simple addition to Starshot, but one that can add a lot of power to a site.

While the default Drupal install provides a contact form, it does it through the rather basic “contact” module, that is built into Drupal Core. This has a lot of limitations, and many people prefer to use the more powerful “Webform” module.

Providing this in Drupal CMS saves the somewhat tedious process of adding a contact form to each Drupal installation. It also adds a Webform contact form in a more standard way, so sites are more likely to follow a consistent pattern when adding…

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• Contact Form

Follow along as I (Ashraf Abed of DebugAcademy.com) fix a bug in the contributed Drupal module, Responsive Menus. This embedded video follows as I diagnose the problem, research the issues, create a branch on gitlab, fix the issue locally, test the fix, and submit my fix to Drupal.org for the community to benefit from.

This was done as part of Debug Academy's Drupal Training course.

Today we are talking about WEBAssembly, How it’s used, and cool things you can use it for with Drupal with guest Matt Glaman. We’ll also cover Darkmode JS as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/478

• What is WebAssembly
• Progressive Web Aoos
• Open source
• Does it have a community
• Browser support
• How does it work
• Common use cases
• How can you use this with Drupal
• This was an early concept for Drupal trial
• Challenges
• Wordpress playground
• Pieces that do not work for PHP
• Are there risks
• Are there resources for people that want to use WebAssembly
• Do you see it being used with Drupal

• WEBAssembly
• WEBAssembly history
• Browser support
• 2038
• WordPress Playground
  • https://playground.wordpress.net
  • https://github.com/adamziel
• Slides from Barcelona: The Web APIs powering the Starshot trial:
  • https://mglaman.dev/sites/default/files/2024-09/The Web APIs powering the Starshot trial experience.pdf
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJVM_uDGD5I&list=PLpeDXSh4nHjQOfQV-BUgoxHXlr4tHlhPO&index=64

Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Suzanne Dergacheva - evolvingweb.com pixelite

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted your Drupal site to provide a widget that allows visitors to go over to the dark side of your theme? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Darkmode JS
• Brief history
  • How old: created in May 2022 by Arthur Baghdasaryan (arthur.baghdasar) of Last Call Media
  • Versions available: 1.0.7 which works with Drupal 9, 10, and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Number of open issues: 1 open issues which is a bug against the current branch, but is postponed, waiting for more info
• Usage stats:
  • 89 sites
• Module features and usage
  • The module is a wrapper for the DarkmodeJS library which gets 1,000 weekly downloads, according to NPM. That library does have its own demo / tutorial site, so if you want to understand the options it exposes, we will add a link in the show notes
  • The module provides options to control where on the page you want the widget to appear, what colors it should use, whether or not to store a user’s choices in cookies, and whether or not to automatically match a visitor’s OS theme setting of light/dark
  • Installing the module currently requires making some changes to your site’s composer.json file, then configuring how you want the widget to appear, and then placing the block in your site theme
  • The module also doesn’t currently include a schema file for its configuration, which can cause challenges particularly for sites that run automated tests

After the huge success of the DrupalCon Portland competition, the Drupal Association is excited to announce that the t-shirt design contest will be returning for DrupalCon Atlanta! 

We want to see the Drupal community's design ideas for the official t-shirt, available for all attendees to wear and enjoy. Do you have a fantastic idea in mind? Let’s see your creativity!

The winner will get THEIR design on the front of the official t-shirt for DrupalCon Atlanta 2025!

What the judges are looking for

Judges are looking for a combination of creativity, impact, and relevance to the Drupal community. A design that tells a story and aligns with the values and aspirations of DrupalCon attendees is likely to capture attention.

While exploring bold ideas, consider how your design will resonate with a diverse audience. Think of classic elements that make a T-shirt memorable while pushing creative boundaries.  Avoid overcomplicating things; sometimes less is more, especially if every element adds value to the message. 

Now, for the finer details…

Your design must include the DrupalCon Atlanta Logo and will only be featured on the front of the t-shirt. Sponsor logos will be added to the t-shirt sleeves after the design is finalized. 

Specs: 

• PNG or PDF preferred
• 16 inches tall, 13 inches wide
• graphics need to be 300 dpi

All designs must be submitted by 31 December 2024 at 23:59 UTC, after which the submission form will close.

The Drupal Association will then select four designs to go forward to a public vote.

The top four designs, as chosen by the Drupal Association, will then be voted upon by the public, with voting closing on 18 January at 23:59 UTC. 

The winning design will be printed on the front of the official DrupalCon Atlanta 2025 t-shirt and the winner will receive a complimentary ticket to their choice of either DrupalCon Atlanta 2025 or DrupalCon North America 2026.

How to enter

Simply create your design, then fill out our submission form by 18 December to submit your final design. We also ask that you include a sentence or two describing why you chose your design and how it represents the Drupal community.

So, what are you waiting for? Submit your design now, and please help us spread the word throughout the Drupal community!

Good luck!

** Drupal Association staff and members of the DrupalCon Atlanta Steering Committee will not be permitted to enter this contest.**