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michaelemeyers Wed, 03/12/2025 - 07:12Are you a government professional looking to enhance your digital skills and connect with like-minded peers? The Government Summit at DrupalCon Atlanta 2025 is the event for you!
This summit will take place on 24 March 2025, and will be designed specifically for government agencies and public sector leaders. It’s your chance to explore how Drupal, one of the world’s most powerful open-source content management systems, can help address the unique challenges government organizations face in digital transformation.
At the Government Summit, you’ll dive into topics such as:
Don’t miss out! Whether you’re attending the full event or just the Government Summit, this is an investment in your professional growth and your agency’s future.
Current state and local government employees can add a free summit ticket to the Government Summit - a $250 value.
*must upload a valid local government ID during registration for discount
https://events.drupal.org/atlanta2025/ticket-rates-and-details
The Government Summit at DrupalCon Atlanta 2025 is your opportunity to stay ahead in digital transformation and open-source technology. Register today https://events.drupal.org/atlanta2025/ticket-rates-and-details and secure your spot!
We're excited to announce updates to the Drupal Drupal CMS leadership team that will enhance our product, marketing, and user experience capabilities.
Nick Koger will take over as Drupal CMS's Marketing Lead, replacing Suzanne Dergacheva. Since joining the Drupal Association as a Product Marketer seven months ago, Nick has assisted in launching Drupal CMS by creating web content, social media posts, and managing paid advertising. He also launched our global event marketing strategy to promote Drupal to external audiences worldwide.
We thank Suzanne and her team at Evolving Web for their valuable work on helping to launch our new brand and initial marketing pages. Suzanne is stepping back from day-to-day involvement to focus on Evolving Web but will remain active in the Marketing Committee. Evolving Web will continue to contribute to design and content strategy improvements on Drupal.org.
Lead To strengthen our focus on user experience, we've created a new leadership role: UX Research Lead. Emma Horrell will step into this position alongside Cristina Chumillas, who continues as Product Design Lead.
Emma's work on researching target audiences, defining their needs and expectations, and testing new features has shaped Drupal CMS's user experience. Her research expertise will help us optimize Drupal CMS for marketers. Thanks to the University of Edinburgh for supporting Emma's contributions and to Lullabot for supporting Cristina's work.
Adam Globus-Hoenich has been central to Drupal CMS from the beginning – creating the original prototype at DrupalCon Portland and serving as the main committer since. His technical leadership has been crucial, and we're formalizing his role as Drupal CMS Architecture Lead. In this position, Adam will continue to work with Tim Plunkett, our Technical Lead.
We appreciate Acquia's support in giving Adam and Tim the time to drive Drupal CMS forward.
These leadership changes are already in effect. Each person brings something special to the team that will expand Drupal's reach.
I'm sharing this news before DrupalCon Atlanta so you can meet our new leadership team there, understand the context for upcoming Drupal CMS presentations, and chat with them directly about where Drupal is headed.
This update builds on our previous leadership team announcement. Other leadership roles continue unchanged, and this announcement reflects our ongoing commitment to strengthening the Drupal CMS initiative with the right expertise.
For years, DrupalCon has been seen as a place for developers, module experts, and backend architects to connect and get inspired. What about marketers? Things are changing, with the spotlight on the new Drupal CMS and its marketer-friendly features, DrupalCon 2025 in Atlanta is set to offer marketers a fresh and exciting way to engage with technology.
As a marketer, if you’ve ever thought, "DrupalCon isn’t for me,” it’s time to rethink.
If you’ve caught up with all that’s happening around the Drupal world lately, this should not come as a surprise. Yes, Drupal CMS is truly, madly, deeply designed for and around marketers. With it, you can roll out campaigns faster, deliver personalized user experiences easily, seamlessly, and quickly integrate with your favorite CRMs or marketing automation platforms. Reading about the power of Drupal CMS is one thing, but imagine meeting the creators in person, gaining first hand insights on how to make the most of it, and discovering its powerful features.
At DrupalCon Atlanta 2025, you’ll definitely see a lot about how Drupal CMS’s capabilities are transforming marketing workflows. In addition, there’s an exciting lineup of must-attend sessions designed specifically for marketers like you and me. Take a look at the list!
Designed specifically for marketers, this talk will explore innovative approaches to creating seamless user experiences and impactful content strategies. Learn how to apply these insights to your next project and enhance your brand’s digital presence with practical, real-world examples. Click for more details on this session.
In this session, Dave Cameron breaks down the role of PDFs in digital content, when they work, when they don’t, and how to manage them effectively. Learn best practices for handling PDFs, optimizing accessibility, and knowing when to transition to better alternatives. Ultimately, this session will help you make smarter decisions about your digital assets. Click for more details on this session.
Find out how AI is revolutionizing content management systems, including Drupal, in this insightful session with Jyoti Singh. Learn how to harness AI to enhance content delivery, streamline workflows, and optimize digital experiences. Click for more details on this session.
Discover how Drupal Workspaces is transforming content staging and workflows for better efficiency and flexibility. Matt West will showcase how this powerful feature enhances content creation, improves collaboration, and simplifies publishing processes. Click for more details on this session.
Learn how to create useful Google Analytics reports with Looker Studio to track website success. Cameron Panice will show you how to find valuable insights to improve your digital strategy. A hands-on session for marketers who want to make smarter decisions with data! Click for more details on this session.
Learn smart ways to improve your website without overspending. Bjorn Thomson will share creative strategies to make the most of your marketing budget and maximize impact, even in tough times. Perfect for businesses looking to grow online with limited resources! Click for more details on this session.
Amy Shropshire will show how psychology influences audience decisions and how to use these insights to craft smarter content strategies. This session is great for marketers looking to make a bigger impact! Click for more details on this session.
Mandee Englert will walk you through the challenges of content migration during site consolidation projects. Learn how to simplify the process and ensure a smooth transition. This one is perfect for teams tackling complex migrations! Click for more details on this session.
Join Brian Danin for a session on how to use Google Tag Manager (GTM) to enhance your digital marketing strategies. Learn how GTM can improve your ability to measure and analyze website performance, giving you more power over your campaigns. Click for more details on this session.
Join Gaurav Mishra as he explores the latest SEO trends and innovations. Learn how to optimize your Drupal website and stay ahead in a rapidly changing digital world. Great for businesses wanting to make the most of SEO! Click for more details on this session.
Discover how to simplify content editing with the Layout Paragraphs module in this session by Justin Toupin. Learn how its drag-and-drop functionality can make content management smoother and more efficient, enhancing your editing workflow. Click for more details on this session.
Do you feel limited by your CMS? DrupalCon is where you’ll hear about marketing teams who’ve crushed their goals with Drupal. From skyrocketing lead generation to streamlining multi-language campaigns, the case studies you’ll discover will leave you inspired and equipped. It’s a chance to catch up with the latest industry trends like AI, personalization, omnichannel strategies, etc. Unsure who in your network is attending? Look out for those using our attendee badge!
Do you feel a disconnect between your developer and you? Now imagine you explaining your vision to a developer who actually gets it. DrupalCon facilitates collaboration like no other event. It helps bridge the gap between marketers and tech teams. It’s the perfect place to co-create solutions that make your campaigns run smoother. Learn about new features, modules and themes that your competitors have already started using.
DrupalCon isn’t just about sessions. It’s about the coffee-break conversations and serendipitous meetings that lead to real opportunities. Connect with:
Where else can you sip coffee with a developer, a CEO, and a marketer who just doubled their leads, all at one table? Even better, join us at the Marketing Contribution morning and give back to the Drupal community whilst networking.
Drupal 9 opens up incredible opportunities for creating high-quality, engaging, and valuable websites. This system uses a large set of built-in tools and functions. Moreover, you can add additional modules and realize their full potential. However, such tasks require an appropriate set of tools and special capabilities.
An integral part of almost every web resource is media content. These are various images, videos, audio files, and much more. With the help of such elements, you can add colors and a special sound to your project. Today we learn how to manage media content. Drupal 9 opens up these opportunities for you with the help of the Media core.
In the fast-paced digital world, website performance isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s a necessity. Slow sites frustrate users, increase bounce rates, and hurt conversions, while fast sites keep visitors engaged and improve search engine rankings. As a Drupal developer, I’ve worked on countless projects where performance made the difference between success and struggle.
Drupal is a robust and flexible content management system (CMS), but its power can come with a performance cost if not optimized. That’s where caching steps in. By reducing server load and speeding up content delivery, caching is one of the most effective ways to enhance Drupal’s performance. In this blog, I’ll walk you through both foundational and advanced caching strategies to help you get the most out of your Drupal site.
It’s hard to imagine, but … until now, Experience Builder’s (XB) live preview of the component tree (not to be confused with XB’s chrome-free preview mode) the content creator is assembling has been very imperfect. This week Dave “longwave” Long, Ben “bnjmnm” Mullins, Jesse Baker, Felix “f.mazeikis” Mazeikis, Lauri “lauriii” Timmanee, Bálint “balintbrews” Kléri and I made it just slightly imperfect:
XB’s live preview now shows “global regions” (theme regions) and their contents … with some caveats: the “main content” is still inaccurate! It shows the XB component tree for the current content entity, nothing else.Jesse, Bálint, Gaurav “gauravvv”, Chris “cosmicdreams” Weber and Kristen Pol made an (unintentionally) trippy experience in Experience Builder less dizzying. 😵💫😅 From:
XB’s “trippy drop” rather than “drag and drop” 🙈🤣To:
Dragging and dropping is no longer dizzying, plus now has clear affordances for dropping into the root.As promised last week, this week the approach we landed on for the xb_page content entity type (aka “landing pages”) got properly documented in an Architecture Decision Record (ADR): see docs/page-entity-type.md for all glorious details 🤓 Kudos to Matt “mglaman” Glaman, Ted “tedbow” Bowman, Lauri, John “johnwebdev”, Pamela “pameeela” Barone, Alex “effulgentsia” Bronstein, danielveza, Bálint and Dave for making this happen!
Missed a prior week? See all posts tagged Experience Builder.
Goal: make it possible to follow high-level progress by reading ~5 minutes/week. I hope this empowers more people to contribute when their unique skills can best be put to use!
For more detail, join the #experience-builder Slack channel. Check out the pinned items at the top!
Last week, we introduced the server-side support for saving your XB creations, this week Lauri, Jesse and Lee did the client-side part: a “Publish” button that saves it. This is only going to be short-lived though: we expect to replace this with listing all auto-saved changes and allowing you to publish them all at once.
XB adopted Storybook this week for its UI components, thanks to Atul “soaratul” Dubey, Tina Rey and Bálint “balintbrews” Kléri — which means that we’re starting to have a nice overview of all XB’s UI components (not to be confused with XB Components! 🤓). XB has a whole range of UI components: borrowed & unmodified from Radix, borrowed & modified, and completely custom. Anything that’s in either of the last two will should be available in Storybook.
Components powering XB’s UI can now be browsed using Storybook.Week 29 was November 25–December 1, 2024.
