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Stop me if you've heard this one before. At some point in the life of your Drupal site, you have a menu that has gotten out of control. Dragging and dropping is basically a lost cause, your hand hurts from scrolling, and a sense of dread approaches every time you find yourself in the menu administration screen. If it isn't possible to re-structure the menu to address the root cause, you'll need to turn to other solutions to make menu administration more manageable.

I recently used two modules to address this issue for a client. They may not be a huge surprise to those who have run into this problem repeatedly, but it seemed worth documenting for both future me and also our search engine and LLM overlords.

Big Menu

The first module is Big Menu. The project page on this one seems to be describing the Drupal 7 implementation of the module, which is quite a bit different. The 'modern Drupal' version of the module essentially re-works the menu administration page to focus on a single level of the menu tree at a time. Any menu item that has children will have an 'Edit child items' link that you can drill into. This results in more clicks to get to the item you want to edit, but it makes the menu administration page much more manageable and reduces cognitive load quite a bit.

You can also configure the module to use a different depth for the menu tree, which can be useful if wanted to see more of the menu in a single view. Personally I prefer to go all the way with this one and stick with the single level view that is used by default.

Menu Select

The Menu Select module addresses the experience of selecting a parent menu item in the menu settings for a node or menu item. By default, this is a select list containing the entire menu, which can get very long. Menu Select replaces this with an autocomplete search and a hierarchal collapsible unordered list.

Bonus: Menu Firstchild

Menu Firstchild is a little less about the admin experience, but can be useful in cases where a large menu needs some additional grouping but you don't want to turn to a full mega menu style approach. The module provides an option to have a menu item that doesn't have it's own path, but instead links to its first direct child.

Used together, these modules made a substantial difference in addressing the client's menu administration related feedback.

This was also a reminder of the impact that the ongoing work on Drupal CMS will hopefully have. I'm looking forward to a Drupal CMS future that can theoretically pre-package user experience improvements like these. Or in cases where it might not be the right choice for Drupal CMS, opinionated community developed recipes can be created to address common use cases like this one.

This week, lots of work on the LocalGov News module.

Drupal theming system is one of the most flexible and powerful tools for web developers, especially when it comes to creating visually appealing and highly functional websites. As a Content management system (CMS), drupal provides the best customization capabilities, making it a top choice for developers worldwide. 

Today we are going to delve deeper into Drupal's Theming system, and its core component.

In this blog, we'll dive into Drupal’s theming system, its core components, and how LN Webworks, with its expert team, leverages Drupal development services to ensure that every Drupal-based website is not just functional but also visually engaging.

Integrating Pipedrive, a powerful CRM tool, with a Drupal Webform can automate lead capturing, tracking, and data management. By using Webform, we can create a custom form and submit form data directly to Pipedrive, enabling a seamless flow of information from your website to your CRM

In this post, we’ll walk through the process of creating a Drupal Webform and then show how to configure a submit handler to send form data to Pipedrive.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, ensure that you have the following:

• A Pipedrive account and API access (API key).
• A Drupal installation with the Webform module installed and enabled.

Integrating Pipedrive with Drupal Webform: A Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Install the Webform Module in Drupal

The Webform module allows you to create forms and manage submissions in Drupal. To install the Webform module, follow these steps:

Artisan is a Drupal base theme built on Bootstrap 5 and Sass. It offers easy theme configurations, theme presets (or variants), and extensive use of CSS variables.

Why Artisan?

The inspiration for Artisan comes from Radix, a well-known theme we used for a long time. However, once you master something that is not directly tailored to your needs, you may start to wish for changes—small ones at first, but larger ones over time. For example, we found ourselves overwriting too many base templates for our Drupal projects. We wanted the templates provided by the base theme to be extensible enough to avoid being discarded based on the needs of specific projects. In the end, we decided to create our own theme.

The main goal of the Artisan base theme is to provide a foundation that allows most of its components to be reused without requiring complete overwrites in the custom theme of a specific project. To achieve this, Artisan offers a functional design base that is easily extensible, as explained below.

Artisan also makes extensive use of  CSS custom properties (commonly known as CSS variables) to fully leverage their benefits. By using these variables, you can easily reuse styles across your project, ensuring greater design consistency. Additionally, they simplify…

Authored by Nadiia Nykolaichuk.

An exciting recipe is brewing in the Drupal kitchen. Picture a cookbook filled with delightful dishes, each requiring just one simple step. Similarly, Drupal users will soon enjoy the ability to add valuable functionalities to their websites with a single click, thanks to Recipes. 

Learn how the Event Platform module simplified building the DrupalCamp Berlin 2024 website, its key features, benefits, and potential for improvements.

At DrupalCon Barcelona, we were amazed to see all the powerful and functional Drupal AI integrations in action. I have been following the development closely, and after the recent release announcement of the AI (Artificial Intelligence) module, we decided to recreate one of its use cases: a RAG chatbot enabling semantic search. 

Headless CMS allows flexible data exposure for different applications. In systems like Drupal, this concept becomes especially important for teams that want to build modern applications with a separate frontend layer. In this blog post, you'll see the process of exposing Drupal data using the REST API and JSON API. You'll also discover how to customize views, generate content, and manage settings to ensure seamless collaboration with frontend frameworks.

Well, it's official. My Drupal Lenient Composer Plugin has allowed the lenient Composer repository endpoint on Drupal.org to be sunset and removed. I created the mglaman/composer-drupal-lenient repository two years ago at DrupalCon Portland. It is pretty wild how much it has been adopted in just two years. Not only has it allowed the Drupal Association to dismantle some infrastructure, but it is also baked into the Drupal.org GitLab CI. The package is pushing over 3,000,000 downloads from Packagist!