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Drupal documentation has a funding problem. Open source education is a public good. But "it should be free" is not a business model.

Sometimes working on a Drupal contributed module requires making changes to the module’s composer.json so that you can update a dependency. This blog post looks at how to accomplish that in a local development environment.

Learn more about our new course covering the Drupal Recipes API and how both developers and site builders can make use of recipes to get from concept to launch quicker. Spend more of your time focused on the unique aspects of your site that provide value to your users.

In 2024 I became a certified coach to round out the informal coaching that I’ve been providing for many years. I’ve used that training to support a variety of people in several different volunteer communities, including folks who attended our Leadership Training for Open Source course last year. In an effort to support the Drupal community more broadly I’m offering some free sessions for Drupalers.

While working on a Drupal core bug in the Navigation module’s toolbar, Mike Herchel discovered the issue was related to the usage of Drupal.displace(), which is included in Core’s JavaScript and CSS APIs. He breaks down what Drupal.displace() is and how to use it.

We’ve been experimenting with different ways to use AI to make Drupalize.Me even more helpful for our members and we’re excited about this first update: a new AI-powered chatbot that can search and summarize tutorials from our library.

As of Drupal 11.1.0, core has support for defining custom entity types (both content and configuration) using PHP attributes instead of annotations. And now, all our Entity API tutorials have been updated to reflect this change.

If you're creating applications that access Drupal's data and need to act like a logged-in user, you'll want to use OAuth for authentication. This process of setting up OAuth and understanding the flow of making authenticated HTTP requests can be a bit daunting. We've added videos to 3 tutorials that will help you understand this process.

As promised, we’ve added 2 new tutorials to our course, Single Directory Components in Drupal:

• Understanding Props and Slots in Drupal Single Directory Components
• Override an Existing Single Directory Component

We've heard from many of you that you want to learn more about Single Directory Components (SDCs) in Drupal. Which makes sense, since they are one of the most exciting new features in Drupal theming since Twig was added to Drupal 8. We’re excited to share that the first phase of our brand-new SDC course is now available!

Explore the Single Directory Components in Drupal course now.

Keeping a Drupal site secure means staying on top of security updates, which are a kind of patch-level update. You may have heard of Automatic Updates, a tool that helps you apply patch-level updates to your site without the need to manually use Composer on the command line. Perhaps you’ve installed Drupal CMS and encountered it there or in the documentation as a feature. Before you dive in, make sure you understand what’s required and the best-fit use cases. Depending on your hosting provider and deployment workflow, you may already have the best update solution in place.

In this post, we’ll walk through what Automatic Updates can and can’t do, the technical requirements and limitations, a decision matrix to help you determine if it's a good fit, and where to learn more in the Drupal CMS Guide.