We will keep this one short and sweet. There is quite a bit of documentation pointing to the fact that drupal_is_front_page() still exists in Drupal 8 ... it doesn't! Panic not. The solution is nice and easy, the following snippet will act as a drop in replacement for drupal_is_front_page() - simply returning TRUE or FALSE. \Drupal::service('path.matcher')->isFrontPage();
Welcome to part two of our miniseries on Drush commands! Do check out part one if you haven't already. There you'll see what we've been up to with our pretend module, my_awesome_module. If you're writing a custom Drush command, it's pretty much guaranteed that you're needing to do something more complicated than write 'Hello World' to your database 5,000 times. Let's take a look at some Drush essentials. Arguments and Options You guessed it -...
Responsive design is now the norm when it comes to developing modern websites, and most of us will be all too familiar with how we use media queries to get our sites looking different on a whole range of different devices. When it comes to getting our images to resize depending on the viewport / device, we now have two options: we can again rely on media queries, or we can use the srcset and...
Occasionally there's something you need to achieve, which would be really easy if only you could have it performed via Drush - some script that could be run on the server during an update or migration process, perhaps. But it all looks a bit too scary, right? "The task is tricky enough already, let's just do it some other way"? Well, it's actually surprisingly easy to write your own Drush commands, and it's totally something...
It's a well known fact that a large proportion of sites turn off the node preview button. It just doesn't work well. Your unsaved changes don't show and the admin theme is used in place of your site theme - not helpful. Workflows like that provided by Workbench Moderation give previews that work nicely, but that involves a lot of complexity with revisions and workflow. It really changes the way you (and your nodes, for...
I recently read the trending article The Web We Have to Save, by blogger Hossein Derakhshan ('Hoder'), who had been imprisoned in Iran for six years. In the article, he talks about how the internet had changed over that time. Quality can be drowned out; what is important is diluted in amongst the trivial. Personally, I believe any expression of culture will reflect the society it flows from. The internet is a global society, so incorporates so many different aspects of humanity - different, good, and bad. What does the internet say about our global society? I believe that we should all take responsibility to some extent -- especially those of us in the business of websites and content on the internet! Can we contribute to a more responsible internet? Are we equipped to do so?
We had a lovely time at Drupalcamp Bristol - and especially enjoyed trying to tell the world about our build pipe and automated testing setup. Sadly Mike's trusty laptop died just as he was about to demonstrate some exciting live action testing - but at least it meant everyone got to get to coffee a couple of minutes early. As promised the slide deck is available below - using google slides because it's slightly cooler...