Drupal 8

Many of the common website speed problems in Drupal 7 are now a distant memory with Drupal 8 and Drupal 9. Features like Drupal’s built-in Dynamic Page Cache help bring great performance benefits to the two most recent versions. This article will highlight other tactics to assist with getting the best performance out of your Drupal site.

Understanding Composer's preferred install settings can be essential when applying module info file patches.

Composer already manages our PHP dependencies, so why not let it manage our utility scripts too?

Serving dynamic content, while maintaining the cacheability of a Drupal 8 site, used to be a tedious task. Drupal 8 did introduce a Lazy Builder way back when, but using it requires a fair amount of coding. Instead, we’ll take advantage of the BigPipe module which was included as a stable module since Drupal 8.3.

Deploying the latest changes to your site can take many forms. Understanding the steps involved and why each one matters will help prevent deployment surprises.

Migrations are fraught with unexpected discoveries and issues. Fighting memory issues with particularly long or processing heavy migrations should not be another obstacle to overcome.

Entity storage methods are an often used, yet easily overlooked tool for improving data retrieval and code architecture.

Entities and their methods are no longer limited to use within PHP, they are now available in Twig as well.

Spammers are always evolving and that means spam management is, too. Here are some of the best current spam management tools and tactics for Drupal.

Making content migrations relatively painless lowers the bar immeasurably in making the switch to a platform like Drupal.

Learn how to update your Drupal content model to use media entities without the overhead of a traditional migration.

Managing Drupal sites with composer brings a number of benefits. However, when installing Drupal dependencies from source (an option offered by composer), you also lose the functionality provided by Drupal core’s “Available Updates” page. Thankfully Composer will allow you to keep tabs on the available updates for all of your project’s dependencies, including Drupal core/contrib.