We've added a new tutorial, Upgrade to Drupal 11. And, we've updated all tutorials and code in our Module Developer Guide for compatibility with Drupal 11.

Have you ever wondered "What is the difference between cache keys and cache tags?" One of our Drupalize.Me members wrote in asking about it, and the answer provides insight into how Drupal's Cache API works.

Here's an update from Joe at Drupalize.Me about the progress of the Drupal CMS Guide -- and the challenge of creating docs for a fast-moving open source product like Drupal CMS!

With the release of Drupal 11.1, there’s a cool new feature for developers: Hooks can now be implemented as class methods using PHP attributes instead of functions. This change is a major step forward in modernizing Drupal’s codebase. While procedural function-based hooks are still supported (and will be for some time), developers writing new code should strongly consider using the object-oriented (OOP) approach introduced in Drupal 11.1.

One of our core commitments at Drupalize.Me is ensuring that our tutorials remain accurate and relevant as Drupal evolves. So we’re working on updating all of our tutorials to take into account the new OOP approach to adding hooks in a module. We’re also aware that procedural hooks have been around for 24 years, and aren’t going to disappear overnight. You’ll see them in example code and existing documentation for a long time to come. So for now we’ll be including both approaches in our content whenever doing so makes sense.

You should plan on learning both approaches, and then using the one that makes the most sense given your specific case.

Continue reading to learn a bit about the evolution of hooks in Drupal core and how to implement hooks as classes in Drupal 11 in this latest Drupalize.Me blog post by Joe Shindelar.

At Drupalize.Me, we've been talking with Dries and folks at the Drupal Association about how we can contribute high quality documentation for Drupal CMS. The plan for Drupal CMS documentation is emerging. We believe Drupal CMS documentation should be a highly polished and organized user guide for end-users of Drupal CMS. And that it should be funded. Why?

This week, we've added 7 new videos to existing tutorials in our Module Developer Guide. The Module Developer Guide was created for developers familiar with PHP but new to Drupal module development.

We have been working on recording, editing, and publishing videos for the step-by-step "task" tutorials in our Module Developer Guide. As many of these tutorials are code heavy, you have the advantage of a video walk-through as well as code examples to copy and paste in the written version of the tutorial. Read more to see which tutorials in the guide now have videos embedded.

When Drupal CMS launched, we built a guide to help users get started—but now we’re facing a big question: how does it relate to the existing Drupal User Guide? Should we keep them separate or merge them into a single, streamlined resource? In this post, Joe breaks down the challenges, and explores what’s next.

Exciting things up ahead -- starting with a new name for the company!

Since the launch of the Drupal CMS earlier this year, we’ve been hard at work documenting everything you need to build and maintain a site using this new, streamlined Drupal experience. Our goal is to make the Drupal CMS User Guide a go-to reference for site builders of all experience levels — especially those coming to Drupal for the first time.

In this post, we'll share an update on the current state of the guide, highlight two new sections we’re especially excited about, and show you how your team or company can help move the project forward.

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.

When I was writing documentation for Drupal CMS’s SEO Tools recommended add-on (aka “recipe”), I realized that not all Drupal site users may be up-to-date on the essentials of SEO and how Drupal can help you make your site discoverable by your target audiences.

While Drupal has long been a solid foundation for building search-friendly websites — that doesn’t mean every Drupal user knows where to start with SEO.

In this post, I’ll define essential SEO concepts and highlight best practices direct from the documentation I wrote about promoting your site with SEO for the Drupal CMS User Guide.

Whether you're configuring a custom Drupal 11 site or using Drupal CMS, these tips apply to you. All of the tools mentioned below may be installed on any Drupal 11 site or installed via the SEO Tools recommended add-on in Drupal CMS.

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.