Choosing Between Custom Code and Contrib: When Should You Build It Yourself?

In Drupal development, a common dilemma arises: should you utilize a contributed module or develop a custom solution? This decision is crucial for the efficiency, maintainability, and scalability of your project. Let's explore the factors to consider when making this choice.

Jeffy Lepatan

2025.04.09

Supercharge Your Drupal Workflow with Custom Drush Commands

Tired of repeating the same tasks in the Drupal admin UI? Wish you could automate tedious operations with a single line in the terminal? That’s where custom Drush commands come in — turning your everyday workflows into fast, repeatable, scriptable magic.

Michael John Binal

2025.04.07

Understanding Event Subscribers in Drupal 10

Drupal 10 keeps using an event-driven architecture to increase its adaptability and flexibility. In this design, event subscribers are essential because they enable modules to respond to different events in a seamless manner. This post explores the idea of event subscribers, their essential elements, and how to use them in Drupal 10 projects.

Jhon Manny Loto

2025.01.16

Building a Custom API in Drupal 10: A Step-by-Step Guide

Drupal 10, the latest iteration of the renowned open-source content management system, stands as a beacon for developers seeking to empower their projects with versatile solutions. Among its arsenal of features, the capability to construct custom APIs shines as a gateway to seamless integration with external applications, services, or frontend frameworks. In this exhaustive guide, we will delve deep into the intricacies of creating a custom API in Drupal 10, equipping you with the knowledge to extend your website's functionality and foster a more dynamic and interconnected user experience.

Jessie Allen Anosa

2024.03.13

Getting to know more about Drupal Views

When building a website, effectively displaying content is an important challenge.

Jamaica Angely Mañus

2023.08.31

Drupal : Building Custom API with RESTful Views in a Flash!

First, let me ask you. How does your favorite social app let you create and login with your google credentials? Or How does your weather app get today’s weather forecast? - the answer to these questions is that they communicate with other systems to get the data or verify your credentials. The way these two systems communicate together is to do something called an API.

Jessie Allen Anosa

2022.06.10

Drupal Content Security Policy (CSP)

CSP (Content Protection Policy) is an additional layer of security that aids in the detection and mitigation of certain types of threats, such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and data injection attacks. These attacks are used for a variety of purposes, including data theft, site defacement, and malware distribution.

Jhon Manny Loto

2022.06.02

Acquia Content Hub

Acquia Content Hub is a cloud-based content distribution and syndication platform. It allows efficient reuse and delivery of content aggregated from various sources to multiple channels. We'll cover the setup process for publisher and subscriber sites, as well as how to export and import content.

Aeromel Laure

2022.05.30

How to create a middleware in Drupal

What is a middleware?
Middleware is the part of the application or system which enables the communication between the different components or input/output in the application or system.

Gabriel Fernandez

2022.05.27

Adding Social Media Button to Drupal Site

One way to add a social media button to your drupal site, like facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media platforms, is using the AddtoAny module. Browser and Drupal social media plugins help visitors share your content among their online network friends.

Jhon Manny Loto

2021.11.15

Filtering Menus to only show translated links

Gabriel Seth Ente

2021.11.04

Password Protecting a Single Page

There are some cases when you want a single page on your live/production site to be accessible only to certain individuals or possibly a third party company. Please note that this is different from dev or staging site’s basic authentication requirement. Drupal doesn’t have this option right off the bat so here we will discuss some of the solutions or options we can use on our sites. The solutions we will discuss are applicable for URLs with or without a physical directory such as in Drupal views.

Jeffy Lepatan

2021.10.12

How to Create Custom Page Programmatically

Drupal is CMS (Content Management System) that is easy to build website. But sometimes our client asking a design that was beyond the limitation of Drupal standards and worst thing is that its never existed on contributed modules from Drupal.org. .

Renier John Sediego

2021.10.06

Rise Up with Drupal Simple XML Sitemap Module

In this competitive generation, we strive to rise to the top, we dream and create a plan - a roadmap that will take us to fulfill our wants and needs. We take each step and connect with the necessary people that we think are essential. We reach out to all the resources we could hold onto to achieve our goals and come up as victors and rise to the ranks. Just like in the world inside the internet, websites are clashing with each other, creating each of their trails and SEO to be chosen as the first rank on the results upon search crawling to improve marketing and more page visits, and do you know how crawlers base this ranks? Do you want to be a winner in this barbaric competition? Just read more and I’ll show you the path to victory.

Jessie Allen Anosa

2021.09.15

Creating Custom Tokens in Drupal 9

What are Tokens?

A token is basically just a placeholder for an actual value. You might have gone through an arcade station where you can purchase tokens to use in slot machines for example. Instead of configuring the machines to accept multiple denominations of money, we can just configure it to accept tokens in exchange for actual money.

Jeffy Lepatan

2021.08.09

Drupal Workbench Content Moderation Setup

"Work smarter, not harder", according to Allen F. Morgenstern, an industrial engineer in 1930. There are a number of ways to create a website, but using an amazing CMS such as Drupal is way smarter. Drupal is a versatile CMS that helps greatly in creating the desired output in the projects. But if there are tons of contents that were being created, it would be strenuous and time consuming for the administrator to check if there are newly created contents or whether a certain content should be published or not. We'll be needing a tool to make it facile and easy, won't we?

2021.07.05

How to Alter Drupal Views Query

Drupal Views is a generator of a set of select queries and render engine in Drupal core. It’s main function is to create an output collection of items such as Drupal content entities. But it can also aggregate users, blocks, log records, and more. The output of it can be rendered in many ways, including as an unformatted list, a grid or a table. Views is commonly used in Drupal to create pages, blocks and other types of displays.

Jhon Manny Loto

2021.07.02

How to use Drupal Metatag Module

Meta tags are essentially little content descriptors that help tell search engines what a web page is about. Metadata is data (information) about data. With Drupal Meta tags, you can showcase what your business/website is about without disclosing too much information. Something that will pique your audience's interest and make them want to learn more about your website by clicking on it.

Jamaica Angely Mañus

2021.06.30