We noticed Evolving Web's shiny new Drupal 8-powered blog was loading slower than in D7, and using the blackfire.io PHP profiler we were able to narrow down the bottleneck to…
Read more about Speed up Drupal 8 block rendering with Blackfire.ioDrupal core is pretty well optimized. But after you've finished building your Drupal 7 or 8 site, you might find some pages are loading slower than you'd like. That's not…
Read more about Improving Drupal Speed with blackfire.io (Part 1)You've found an old blogpost! Drupal 8 reached end of life on November 2, 2021. Read about reasons to upgrade to Drupal 10 or our Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 migration guide instead…
Read more about Upgrading to Drupal 8: Benefits and GotchasWe just upgraded our site to Drupal 8, and a big part of that was migrating content. Most content was in JSON files or SQL dumps, which are supported by Drupal's migrate module…
Read more about Bringing files along for the ride to D8If you're a Drupal developer who's on the fence about trying Drupal 8, we hope this post will push you to go for it... or inform you that it's better to wait, if your project…
Read more about Choosing Modules and Themes for DrupalUpdated on June 15, 2022 This post is based on a talk I gave at DrupalCon Barcelona and this year at MidCamp. You can see a video version of the talk below. Content is at the core…
Read more about Migrate for Site Builders: Getting Your Content into DrupalFor themers, there are lots of exciting new features in Drupal 8: the Twig tempting system, libraries for loading assets, and the replacement of theme functions with templates…
Read more about Drupal 8 Theming Foundations: Using Stable vs. Classy as a Base ThemeDrupal 8 theming has lots of new features, one of the most exciting is the addition of libraries. You can use libraries to add stylesheets and javascript to your theme, globally…
Read more about New Tools for Drupal 8 Theming: Defining and Using LibrariesIt's 2016, we are already in the "Mobile Era" and we all love how our modern sites fit and adapt to any screen. It's amazing how a website can stretch to the 52 inches of a…
Read more about How SASS and Bourbon Neat Can Save Non-Mobile WebsitesI needed to create a new webform on a production site recently. But as a dev, I don't have direct access to the production admin backend; I'm only allowed to push code changes and…
Read more about Node smuggling, aka poor mans node_export
