While working on a project with Acquia Dev Desktop (ADD), we needed to run a specific version of PHP which is not included with ADD by default. We started hacking ADD and came up with our own solution.

With so many shiny new Drupal modules emerging this year, we were hard pressed to pick our recommendations for 2018. It came down to asking ourselves: which modules are we excited about implementing in 2018… the ones that will make our projects better, faster, smarter brighter? Read on for our list of Drupal modules we're excited about.

Create beautiful responsive sites with collapsible menus or regions with the Sidr module for Drupal, which lets your site go responsive with style.

A tutorial on how to create custom migration source plugins for Drupal with sample code. Learn how to create or modify source plugins to make Drupal migrations even more flexible.

A case study on how Blackfire helped us get a 98% improvement in performance on a heavy migration by changing around two lines of code!

A tutorial on migrating URL aliases and URL redirects with Drupal migrations to improve SEO by avoiding 404 errors and broken URLs.

Learn how to migrate translated content from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. This tutorial is about migrating translations created with the Content Translation module.

⚠️ November 2020 update: We've written an updated version of this tutorial with new code samples. Read it here.

Since the release of Drupal 8 with a standardized way of managing translations, many sites running Drupal 7 are making a switch to Drupal 8. In Drupal 7 there are two ways to translate content:

I train a lot of new Drupal users. Some find it easy-to-use and some find it a daunting maze of forms full of confusing terminology. Sometimes, it just depends on how the admin UI has been configured.

Here are some tips for configuring Drupal so that content editors using your site will love Drupal!

If you're migrating or upgrading your site to Drupal's latest version, you'll be amazed by how many out-of-the-box modules are available.

That being said, there are still a set of handy contrib modules you'll probably use for most of your projects. This isn't a complete list, just a starting point for anyone new to Drupal looking for a useful set of modules to try.