Talking Drupal

Today we are talking about Drupito, its Business model, and Marketplaces with guest Ashraf Abed. We'll also cover Generate (Social Media) Image as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/563

• Meet Drupalito and the Mission
• Platform Layers and Roadmap
• Pricing and New Markets
• Marketplace Success Stories
• Exportability and Vendor Lock In
• Growing the Drupal Ecosystem
• Derivatives and Recurring Revenue
• Rebuilding on Drupedo
• Funding Drupal Association
• Global Community Check In
• Migrating Sites to Drupedo
• Marketplace Vision Shift
• Maintenance and Incentives
• Safe Updates Blue Green
• Testing Mindset for Templates
• Official Marketplace Collaboration
• Agency Revenue and Partnerships
• Niche Derivatives and Pricing
• Launch Plans and Vetting

• Code that ships

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ashraf Abed - drupito.com ashrafabed Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy

Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted Drupal to generate dynamic social media images using tokenized node data, similar to the share images on GitHub repos or Reddit threads? There's a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • Generate (Social Media) Image
• Brief history
  • How old: Created by tfranz of Germany on 22 April 2022
  • Versions available: 1.x-dev, 2.0.0-beta2, published a few weeks ago by our own Martin Anderson-Clutz
• Maintainership
  • Minimally (although now slightly more actively) maintained
  • No Security coverage (yet)
  • Passing GitLab CI tests
  • Well fleshed out README for docs
  • Number of open issues: 8 open issues, 0 of which are bugs against the current branch, but there are lots of feature requests
• Usage stats:
  • 1 site reports using this module
• Module features and usage
  • GSMI requires an image style that uses a "Text Overlay" effect — this comes from the Image Effects module and lets you burn tokenized (or static) text onto an image. Normally, when Drupal generates an image style derivative, there's no entity in scope — it's just processing a file — so a token like [node:title] would resolve to nothing. GSMI's real contribution is the glue: when it builds a derivative for a specific node, it swaps in the node-resolved text before generating the image. That's what makes entity-aware tokens work inside an effect that otherwise only sees global tokens.
  • Once the image style exists, GSMI's settings form lets you pick a source image field on the node — an image field or a media-reference field — plus a fallback image for when that's empty. From there it generates the styled derivative from that source image, for any node of any content type that has the field.
  • Finally, GSMI exposes its own token — [node:generate-style], with optional style/field overrides — so you're not locked into the one global style/field pair configured in the settings form. I used that to drop the generated image into Metatag's og_image field for the Session content type on the MidCamp site, getting us dynamically generated session images..
  • A couple of gotchas we hit setting this up:
  • Text Overlay's layout options have some bugs, and not filling out all of the options will result in an image library error.
  • The bigger one: GSMI names the generated derivative file after the source image's filename — extension included — not after whatever format the image style actually outputs. If you try to convert an image to WebP you might get a WebP image with a JPG extension.
  • BUUUUT - LinkedIn still doesn't support WebP (at least as per their documentation, so it's still in 2026 not safe to use WebP for a universal og:image. https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a521928

Today we are talking about Supporting Open Source, Acquia, and The Acquia Fair Trade Initiative with guest James Sims. We'll also cover Image Effects as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/562

• Fair Trade Initiative Explained
• How the Program Started
• Why Fair Trade Matters
• Adoption and Open Framework
• Agency and Freelancer Benefits
• Partner Funded Giving
• Who Can Be Makers
• Tracking Participation
• Tax Deduction Questions
• Community Shaped Program
• Money Counts Too
• Early Challenges
• Timeline And Launch
• Sustainability Built In
• How To Get Involved
• Defining Success
• Origins Of Fair Trade

• Acquia Fair Trade Initiative
• Taste of chicago
  • Giordanos
  • Lou's pizza
• Five For The Future
• Image Convolution Playground

James Sims - rcjmselp85

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy

Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever gone to edit an image style in Drupal, looked at the list of filters, and said "give me more! I want more!". Have you said "I'd like to mirror, filter, and convolute an image in Drupal - all at the same time". If so, you're in luck. Let me introduce you to our module of the week:
• Module name/project name:
  • Image Effects
• Brief history
  • How old: Created by Drupal user mondrake of Italy on 17 September 2015. It's also the successor to the ImageCache Actions module, which was created all the way back in 2008.
  • Versions available: It has a 4.0.0 version available with Drupal 10 and 11 support, and a 5.0.0 version for Drupal 11.3 and above.
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation
    • It has a full README with details about the available image styles and whether they are supported by the GD or ImageMagick PHP libraries.
  • Number of open issues: 35 open issues, 3 of which are bugs against the current branch. (The current branch has only been out a few months, and many of the open issues against prior branches seem to still be relevant.)
• Usage stats:
  • 35,196 sites report using this module, with most still on the 3.x or 4.x branches. (its predecessor, ImageCache Actions, still has over 25,000 active installs)
• Module features and usage
  • The module is pulled in just like any other, with composer require and then enable via drush or the UI. Once it's installed there is a very basic settings page, but most folks won't use much on there.
  • The power of Image Effects comes when you go to Config > Media > Image Styles and then edit an Image Style. Once Image Effects is enabled, you'll see over two dozen additional effects in the list.
  • These effects range from simple to complex. Interestingly, many of the effects that were so amazing 15 years ago are now doable with CSS. Still, there are some incredibly powerful filters.
  • Side note: I'd strongly recommend Aubrey Sambor's recent talk from Drupal Camp Asheville, "You Don't Need JS for That", and her prior talk "Color in CSS" to learn a ton of things you didn't know about CSS effects.
  • The basics like Color Shift, Contrast, Mirror, Rotate, and more are there if you'd like to do these natively.
  • More advanced filters like Sharpen, Blur, and Convolute let you make more complex modifications to images.
  • "Convolution" is the process of applying n-dimensional matrixes to images to create effects such as blurring, sharpening, and edge detection. Try it out on https://anna.engineering/Image-Convolution-Playground/src/
  • Lastly, you can create advanced image styles with ImageMagick arguments, create Text overlays using the power of Drupal tokens, or even develop your own Image Effects guided by the incredibly detailed DEVELOPING.md file included with the module.

Michael Kinnunen and Steve Wirt share how they each got started with Drupal through higher-ed jobs and stayed for the communit. They compare those community values to FIRST Robotics, explaining FIRST's K–12 programs (FRC, FTC, and FIRST LEGO League), kickoff-style challenges, and the "coopertition" culture where teams help competitors with parts and repairs. Both mentor highschool robotics teams in the US.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/cafe019

• Cafe Catch Up
• Drupal Origin Stories
• Why Drupal Community
• What Is FIRST
• Mentoring Journeys
• Team Names Numbers
• Kickoff Build Sprint
• Coopertition In Action
• Awards And Impact
• Drupal for Team Ops
• Trying Recipes and Canvas
• Time Investment and Module Fixes
• Getting Students into Drupal
• Mentor Load and Teaching Java
• Student Run Team Culture
• Robot Ecosystem and Everybot
• Team Roles and Onboarding
• Adversity and Grit Lessons
• FIRST Programs and How to Join
• Wrap Up and Good Luck

Drupal Developer for CivicActions by day, FIRST Robotics mentor by night Steve has been a Drupal Developer for 19 years and helps government agencies build tools that help improve their mission. He is founding mentor of FRC team Compass Robotics.

Backend Engineer for CivicActions Michael has been working with Drupal for about a decade, starting with Drupal 7 in 2016 as a Web Developer at Northern Michigan University. He has also spent the past six years as a mentor for the Negaunee Minerbotics FRC team, where he has helped students build technical skills in programming and engineering.

Steve Wirt - swirt

Michael Kinnunen - mkinnune

FIRST Robotics Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition Michael's team

• https://github.com/minerbotics
• https://www.facebook.com/MinerBotics4827/

Steve's team - Compass Robotics

Today we are talking about Aaron Winborn, The award named after him, and what winning is like with guests George DeMet & April Sides. We'll also cover Summit as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/561

• Who Was Aaron Winborn
• Award Origin Story
• How Winners Are Chosen
• Why Community Matters
• What Winners Share
• April Learns She Won
• Handcrafted Award Stories
• On Stage Emotions
• After Winning Reflections
• How To Contribute
• Nominations And Makers
• Surprise Award Ideas
• Wrap Up And Contacts

• TD Cafe #018 - Drupal Site Templates
• Aaron Winborn Award Winner
• AskWookiee

April Sides - weekbeforenext George DeMet - palantir.net gdemet

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ashraf Abed - drupito.com ashrafabed

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to create a website purpose-built for an event like a Drupal camp, that collects, moderates, and schedules user-submitted sessions, and do all of that within the Drupal CMS installer? There's a site template for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Summit Site Template
• Brief history
  • How old: created in June 2026 by yours truly
  • Versions available: 1.0.0, released yesterday
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security and test coverage
  • Documentation some in the repo we'll talk about later
  • Number of open issues: no open issues, though there are a couple of open issues on the Event Platform Starter, from which Summit was created
• Module features and usage
  • We've talked before on this podcast about the Event Platform that grew out of an initiative from the Event Organizers Working Group. The goal is to remove friction for anyone organizing a Drupal camp or similar event in creating a website that sets them up for success
  • The Event Platform was created before Recipes were a thing in the Drupal-verse, even though it was initially built in ways that were similar to recipes
  • A couple of years ago, I started working on the Event Platform Starter recipe to help spin up a fully-built event website in a single step. That ran into some technical complexities, so it ended up being being a time-saver, but still required a number of manual steps
  • As the newer concept of site templates took shape, I could see that the Event Platform ecosystem had the necessary elements to become a site template, in particular a theme and a battle-tested a content architecture
  • I ended up needing to decouple the configuration and the functional code that had previously been in Event Platform. The configuration would reside solely in the site template, so the functional code was moved to a new project, Event Platform Helper
  • Along the way, there have been a number of significant changes: Canvas integration for a fully customizable homepage, also a set of Canvas components to allow building new, custom layouts, a new, custom cache context, improved management of event information, and more
  • Now, you set everything up with a single click in the Drupal CMS installer. There's an open issue to get it into the Drupal CMS installer by default, but today it's just a composer require away
  • The repo does also include an AGENTS.md and CONTENT-STRUCTURE.md files, to help human or AI agents who want to work a site built using Summit to understand the initial state of the content architecture it provides, as well as the different logical components and how to troubleshoot them, individually or in combination

Today we are talking about Content, syndication, and Synchronization between Drupal Sites with guest Thiemo Müller. We'll also cover Drupal core 11.4 as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/560

• Origins and Use Cases
• Hub Model and Flexibility
• Media Sync and Governance
• Composable Pages Challenge
• Governance With Blocks
• Canvas And Recipes
• Real Time Syndication
• Scaling To Thousands
• GEO And AEO Explained
• GEO Audits And Loops
• ContentSync Recommendations
• Permissions And Drupal 11
• AIM Assess Improve Monitor
• Boosting Drupal AI Presence
• Ecosystem Alignment Signals
• Recency And Messaging Tips

• Content Sync
• Content Sync A-I-M
• Content Sync Drupal Module
• Deprecated extensions meta issue
• GEO
  • Generative engine optimization
• Semrush
• Peec ai
• Otterly ai
• Profound

Thiemo Müller - content-sync.io thiemo

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ashraf Abed - drupito.com ashrafabed

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Are you excited for a feature release of Drupal core that delivers even more performance acceleration, a modernized developer experience, and a slew of administrator and editor improvements? Drupal core 11.4 delivers all that and more
• Module name/project name:
  • Drupal core 11.4
• Brief history
  • How old: created on July 1 2026 by catch of Tag1
• Changes
  • Performance improvements
    • When Drupal 11.3 was released, we talked about what a massive performance jump it represented, the biggest improvement in a decade. 11.4 has done it again! Database queries are reduced by half, across a range of requests due to optimizations in how entity fields are loaded. Overall, that represents a nearly ⅔ improvement for database and cache lookups on a cold cache compared to Drupal 11.0 or 10.6
    • Entity listing queries have also been refactored to use fewer table joins, reducing slow queries. Additionally, the link field introduces a resolvable_uri property and token, which returns a ready-to-use front-end link (like /#main-content) right out of the API instead of raw internal URIs, which will be a huge benefit for anyone using Drupal for decoupled and JSON:API-based use cases
    • Applying recipes in Drupal 11.4 is significantly faster, reportedly twice as fast, and that includes installing Drupal CMS
    • Drupal now supports Brotli compression, which should yield 15-25% better compression of CSS and JS assets
  • Security
    • Drupal 11.4 offers a new password hashing algorithm, argon2id, that will become the default in Drupal 12 later this year
    • Also, the drupal/core-recommended package no longer strictly locks minor versions for critical dependencies like Guzzle, Twig, or Symfony Polyfills, making it easier to immediately receive important security updates
    • Drupal's default robots.txt now blocks well-behaved search crawlers from indexing search queries, helping to solve a potential source of traffic overload on sites using faceted search
  • Developer experience
    • There's been a significant shift towards the adoption of PHP Attributes in recent Drupal releases, and 11.4 is no exception
      • You can now define application routes directly within your PHP controller and form classes using the Symfony #[Route] attribute. This drastically reduces the need to jump back and forth into *.routing.yml files
      • The new #[Bundle] attribute allows developers to define bundle classes directly, eliminating the need to write old-school entity_type_info or entity_type_info_alter hook implementations.
      • All core .theme and .theme-settings.php files have been moved entirely to PHP classes. Support for legacy .theme files will be dropped in Drupal 13. Furthermore, dozens of core .module files have been fully converted into clean PHP classes
    • Front controllers now leverage the symfony/runtime component to isolate bootstrapping logic from request handling, preparing the Drupal core architecture for advanced environments like FrankenPHP, known for its blazing-fast performance, among other features
    • Drupal 11.4 introduces a native, extensible command-line tool (./vendor/bin/dr) built in partnership with Drush maintainers. This kicks off a transitional period where Drush commands will gradually be migrated to the core native binary
    • Also, the new HttpKernelUiHelperTrait for kernel tests lets developers make mock HTTP requests and assertions without running the full Drupal site installer. This allows many traditional browser tests to be rewritten as much faster kernel tests
  • Editor experience
    • Drupal 11.4 includes the new Default Admin theme, a version of the popular Gin admin theme, now in core
    • The Navigation module is now enabled by default, replacing the legacy toolbar
    • CKEditor once again has a fullscreen button available without a contrib add-on, allowing editors to fully immerse themselves in a WYSIWYG element's content, great for working on long-format pieces
  • Deprecations
    • The initial 11.4.0 release actually removed a number of core recipes. They were since restored in an 11.4.1 release, but they are deprecated and will be removed from Drupal 12
    • Also on their way out are a number of modules, including Ban, Contact, Field Layout, History, Migrate Drupal and its UI, Search, Settings Tray, Shortcut, Telephone, Toolbar, and a flag module called layout_builder_expose_all_field_blocks. For themes, Claro, Stable 9, and Olivero are all deprecated, and will be moved from core. We'll include the meta issue about these deprecation in the show notes, and if any of these are important to you, it's worth tracking where they are on the path of moving to contrib

Join Martin, Andy and Mike as they discuss what Drupal site templates are and how they differ from Drupal's traditionally bare-bones starting point, aiming to reduce setup effort and total cost of ownership while making Drupal competitive again for small nonprofits and smaller sites. They compare building templates versus client sites, covering the evolution from early Layout Builder/Recipes work to today's simpler packaging via a Drush site:export workflow, plus tooling like DripYard Recipe Builder for extracting reusable "recipe" parts.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/cafe018

Based in London, Ontario, Martin transitioned from graphic design to web development, ultimately specializing in Drupal in 2005. Currently working as a Product Marketing Manager at Acquia, he is Triple Certified in Drupal and UX-certified by the world-renowned Nielsen Norman Group. His key contributions include: As a speaker & writer, presenting at Drupalcamps and Drupalcons, and a published blogger across multiple platforms, including the Acquia Dev Portal and opensource.com; as a podcast host, participating in the Talking Drupal podcast, including as the "Module of the Week" correspondent; and as an open source maintainer, developing and maintaining popular Drupal contrib modules and recipes, including Smart Date and Fullcalendar.

Andy is a Drupal back-end developer. In 2012, he founded Blue Oak Interactive, a development and consulting agency focused on complex Drupal site builds, particularly in e-commerce. In 2025, he partnered with Mike Herchel to launch Dripyard, a premium Drupal theme designed to reduce the cost of ownership and enhance the developer experience for modern Drupal projects.

Mike is a founder & developer at Dripyard, and is a longtime contributor to Drupal. He has played a key role in modernizing Drupal's frontend architecture, performance, and accessibility, and is known for helping bring Drupal's component-driven development into mainstream use. Mike has delivered projects for organizations including IBM, the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the U.S. court system. He is a frequent speaker on performance, accessibility, and modern frontend practices.

• What Are Site Templates
• Drupal CMS Template Picker
• Why Templates Matter
• Building Templates Workflow
• Recipes And Custom Tooling
• Canvas And Theme Strategy
• React Components And AI
• Drupal 11.4 Compatibility
• Canvas Patterns Explained
• Pricing Adoption And AI
• AI In Their Workflow
• Internal Templates And Wrap Up

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Andy Giles - andyg5000 Dripyard

Mike Herchel - mherchel Dripyard

Today we are talking about Marketing, AI, and Drupal with guest Paul Johnson. We'll also cover Curated Colors as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/559

• Paul's Current Projects
• Enterprise AI Summit Details
• Marketing the AI Initiative
• Partnering on Event Booths
• Drupal's Outside Perception
• What's Working Now
• Growing the Marketing Team
• How to Contribute
• Outside In Storytelling
• Case Study Examples
• AI Initiative Impact
• Roadmap and Launch Planning
• Finding New Adopters
• Where Pros Research
• Conference Pitch Story
• Local Event Playbook
• Funnel and Webinars
• Industry Guides and Demos
• SEO and AI Search
• Why Agents Avoid Drupal
• High Leverage Contributions
• Measuring AI Mentions
• Vibe Coders to Governance
• Fixing Misconceptions

• Drupal AI Initiative home page
• Slack
  • #ai-initiative-marketing
• Enterprise AI Summit Rotterdam
• AI Dev Summit Rotterdam
• Drupal AI TV
  • We've curated a selection of the best presentations, workshops and demonstrations freely available to provide a practical way to stay informed about the latest innovations in Drupal AI.
• Drupal AI Webinars playlist
• Demos
• Ryan Whitcombe
• 1xINTERNET S1xSignals free AIO GEO assessment
• All things open
• World cancer day

Paul Johnson - pdjohnson

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Falconer - managing-ai.com scott-falconer

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to allow editors on your Drupal site to choose styling from a brand-approved color palette? There's a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Curated Colors
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2026 by Kyle Einecker (ctrladel) of True Summit
  • Versions available: 1.0.0 which works with Drupal 10.3, 11, and 12
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation - in-depth README
  • Number of open issues: 2 open issues, neither of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 27 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Curated Colors enforces brand consistency by replacing generic color text inputs or wide-open color pickers with a curated, visual swatch popover containing only pre-approved, named options
  • It streamlines rebranding by storing abstract keys (such as brand-primary) instead of raw hex values (e.g., #0678be) in the database. That means updating a brand color in the future only requires a CSS or configuration change rather than a massive data migration
  • Curated Colors is also extensible beyond colors. It functions as a generic visual variant selector. Site builders can repurpose it to let editors pick card layouts, button styles (like primary, outline, or danger), hero text alignments, or icon themes
  • Editors can pick from neatly organized groups with human-readable labels and see a live preview swatch of their selection before saving
  • Palettes are managed as exportable Drupal configuration. Each entry maps a machine key to a label, administrative hex preview, and optional custom CSS
  • The module provides a curated_color field type and an accompanying swatch-based popover widget that can be restricted to specific palette groups. It also features a native curated_color_picker Form API element and integrates with the Canvas module via SDC annotations
  • The field exposes properties like value, hex, style, and css, making it simple to output selections as classes, inline styles, or raw codes in Twig templates
  • Finally, Curated Colors includes an example submodule providing a working SDC component and sample palette templates so you can see exactly how it's meant to be used

Today we are talking about AI, Agents, and A System to manage them with guest Luke McCormick. We'll also cover AI Auto-reference as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/558

• Introducing Agent Management
• Origin Story Claude Credits
• Scrum Meets AI Retention
• Handoff Protocol Filesystem
• Why Handoffs Work So Well
• Examples and Human Loop
• Agent Roles and Model Costs
• Choosing Models by Task
• Not Drupal Specific
• Works With Any Model
• Scrum Sprints For Agents
• Human Cognitive Overload
• Tuning Autonomy Levels
• Setup And Handoff File
• Updating Customized AMS
• Persistent Memory Artifacts
• Demand Better Summaries
• Solo Power With Agents
• Roadmap And AMS Trio

• Stanford Web Camp - Agile for Agents – Managing Robots The Way We Manage Humans.
• AMS
• Robert Douglas spec kitty
• xdebug tui
• ams-trio

Luke McCormick - cellear

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to use AI to suggest related content on your Drupal site? There's a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • AI Auto-reference
• Brief history
  • How old: created in June 2023 by Scott Euser (scott_euser) or Soapbox
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-rc4
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage - opted in, needs stable release
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 4 open issues, 1 of which is a bug
• Usage stats:
  • 19 sites
• Module features and usage
  • AI Auto-reference works with any reference fields, so it could find suitable taxonomy terms, nodes, etc
  • It does that by rendering a specified view mode, so it should with any kind of complex layout approach you may have implemented on your site
  • It will also automatically shorten your content to fit within your AI model's token window, which you can also configure
  • The module extends Drupal's main AI module, which means you can select which model to use, and probably means you can also use guardrails, and all the other powerful features that come with that ecosystem
  • Ai Auto-reference comes with default prompts, but you can also edit those if you really want to make sure you're squeezing out every drop of relevance
  • You can also choose for which fields in each content type you want to generate suggestions, as well as whether you want the suggestions should be automatically applied, or whether you want them manually reviewed
  • As mentioned on the project page, you can already have AI suggest things like tags using the AI module without this project, but this may be a better choice if you want to make sure the recommendations stick to an existing set

Today we are talking about Test Driven Development, ebooks, and Drupal with guest Oliver Davies. We'll also cover Juicer Social Feed as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/557

• What Is Test Driven Drupal
• Why Automated Tests Matter
• How TDD Works
• AI and Test Quality
• Balancing Test Coverage
• When to Write Tests
• Why Write the Book
• Why Write an Ebook
• From Email Course to Ebook
• Ebook vs Print Tradeoffs
• Who the Book Helps
• What You Will Learn
• Keeping Content Updated
• Publishing Tools Workflow
• Lessons and Drupal Changes
• Podcast and Future Books
• Mob Programming Explained
• Free Ebook and Wrap Up

• Juicer io
• Drupal 11: The Upgrade Experience I've Been Waiting For
• codethatships
• Test-Driven Drupal
• Sculpin

Oliver Davies - oliverdavies.uk opdavies

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Falconer - managing-ai.com scott-falconer

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to embed social feeds into your Drupal website? There's a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Juicer Social Feed
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Mar 2026 by Denis Omerović (drupalchille)
  • Versions available: 1.0.2, that works with Drupal 10.3 or 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained (version released today!)
  • No open issues
• Usage stats:
  • 4 sites
• Module features and usage
  • This module embeds an aggregated social media feed from Juicer.io directly into Drupal as a configurable block. It natively supports content from Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, X (Twitter), TikTok, Bluesky, YouTube, and more.
  • Traditionally, displaying feeds from platforms like Facebook, X, or Instagram requires creating developer accounts, managing rotating OAuth tokens, and keeping up with constantly shifting API restrictions. Juicer handles all API authentication on its platform, shielding your website from sudden breaking changes by individual social networks.
  • To use this module, you will need an active account on Juicer.io. They offer both free and paid tiers depending on how many sources you want to aggregate and how frequently you need the feed to sync.
  • The module is created and maintained by the official Juicer.io team. That should ensure that the module is closely aligned with the product's features and any potential API changes over time.
  • The embedded feed is made available as a Drupal block, to make it easy to control where it should appear on your site.
  • When placing the Juicer block, the UI exposes several user-friendly settings:
  • Feed Slug: Just paste your unique Juicer feed ID to establish the connection.
  • Post Limit: Control exactly how many items populate initially.
  • Source Filtering: If your Juicer account aggregates five networks, but you only want to show LinkedIn posts on a specific page, you can filter down to a single network right inside the block settings.
  • SEO/Semantic Control: You can set titles/subtitles and choose the exact heading level hierarchy ( through ) to ensure your pages remain semantically correct and accessible.
  • I did get a chance to test out the module and the service today, and I can tell you from experience, it's a huge improvement on having to create and pull in feeds directly. I did notice that the block didn't show up in the Drupal Canvas component library, but I was able to determine that two lines of code to declare the block as FullyValidatable were all that was needed. So I opened a Feature Request to add that, and it was merged in and a new release cut in less than an hour. So it's now Drupal Canvas compatible too!
  • It's worth pointing out that the standard Juicer's embed script loads HTMX, which conflicts with the version of HTMX included in Drupal 11 core. As a result, the module fetches feed HTML directly from the Juicer API and includes a minimal HTMX shim to prevent errors.
  • John, you nominated this module, why don't you start us off by telling us about how you got started using it?

Today we are talking about Drush, Core Contributions, and Drupal's Past with guest Moshe Weitzman. We'll also cover Cache Metrics as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/556

• Moshe Updates and Clients
• Maintaining Drush Long Term
• Locale Performance Overhaul
• CLI in Core Initiative
• Which Commands Make the Cut
• Roadmap Contrib Commands
• Moving Commands Technical Hurdles
• How to Help From AI Initiative
• DDEV Add-ons for Local CI
• MySQL Toolkit Database Images
• Testing With Real Databases
• Devel Module Status
• Organic Groups Origins
• Where Ideas Come From
• Finding Drupal Early Days
• Release Cadence And Backward Compatibility
• Avoiding Maintainer Burnout
• Maintaining With AI And Xdebug

• Drush's Final Act
• Drupal cli issue
• DDEV addons
  • https://github.com/ddev/ddev-drupal-contrib
  • https://github.com/weitzman/ddev-mtk
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/dtt

Moshe Weitzman - weitzman.github.io moshe-weitzman

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Falconer - managing-ai.com scott-falconer

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted insights into how cache is working on your Drupal site? There's a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Cache Metrics
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Oct 2019 by Moshe Weitzman (moshe weitzman), today's guest, a consistent core contributor, a member of the security team, and one of the rare few with a two-digit user id on drupal.org
  • Versions available: 2.0.3, 2.1.0, and 2.2.0, the last of which works with Drupal 8.7.7, 9, 10, and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security and test coverage
  • Documentation - in depth README
  • Number of open issues: 2 open issues, 1 of which is a bug, but is marked fixed
• Usage stats:
  • 37 sites
• Module features and usage
  • With this module enabled, your Drupal site will log all cache tag invalidations
  • Additionally, cache tag invalidations will be sent to New Relic as custom events, where you can use the rich reporting tools available to mine for further insights. Many Drupal hosting options include New Relic out-of-the-box, and there's a free tier you can use if you're self-hosting, so this a reporting tool lots of Drupal sites can use
  • Cache hits and misses are also sent to New Relic, so you can investigate things like cache misses as a percentage by cache bin
  • Finally, the aforementioned README also includes information about how to use a different analytics provider, in case New Relic doesn't meet your specific needs
  • Drupal sites probably don't need this kind of visibility on a regular basis, but if you're troubleshooting any kind of cache-related issue, this could be really useful