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After seeing our logo alongside others in various places it was clear to us that we were starting to look outdated. The work we were doing was getting more and more advanced and our branding did not reflect this. We needed to rebrand.

After 7 years of our brand and website, we felt the outdated look did not reflect the cutting edge work we were doing, so it was time for a change. With the relatively recent release of Drupal 8 there was no better time for a complete overhaul, so I set to work. But before any website design or build could begin it was important to rebrand the company fully so this could be carried through...

Once upon a time, we wrote an article about how to render fields on their own in Drupal 7, which was really handy because Drupal 7 wasn't always intuitive. It's common to want to display a field outside of the context of its main entity page, like showing author information in a sidebar block or in a panel, but you had to just know which functions to use. Drupal 8 came along since then using...

If you don't have access to the file system on the server for a Drupal site, when a security issue like Drupalgeddon2 comes along, you are entitled to panic! Many sites are run by a combination of teams, so sometimes you really don't have control over the server... but that might even mean there is another way to apply fixes. If you've been tasked with updating such a site (I was!), it's worth checking if...

Drupalgeddon2 happened! We got all but two of our projects updated within an hour, with those remaining trickier two fully patched another hour later. The key was planning the right process using the right tools. We actually use these tools for regular deployments every day, but speed was essential for this security update. Here's what we did, since some of you may be interested. 1. Our on-call developers split up the various sites/environments/projects that would...

In light of the recent Drupal security release we at ComputerMinds have taken the decision to rebuild all our client sites in a brand new bespoke CMS custom built in Perl. Our new CMS, codenamed F001, offers significant improvements over the Drupal architecture - mainly by managing to fit the entire codebase into a single line of code. Other significant improvements include : 1. Support for HTML1.0 only. By standardising on this well established HTML...

No one seems quite sure what to call SA-CORE-2018-002, although there does seem to be a trend towards drupalgeddon2. Whatever we call it, it's here and it is every bit as scary as everyone had feared - the key lines from the update : How difficult is it for the attacker to leverage the vulnerability? None (user visits page). What privilege level is required for an exploit to be successful? None (all/anonymous users). Does this...

If you are reading this, then you are probably already aware of the impending security update that is due to drop this evening (UK time). At this stage, it is not clear quite how serious the security update is, we are hoping it's not at the level of Drupalgeddon (PSA-2014-003 - Oct '14) - but we are working on the assumption that it is. So this means, we are aiming to get all sites we...

We've settled on what we think is a best practice for class naming for Javascript in Drupal – let me explain what I mean and then talk you through our reasoning.

Extra quick tip for developers working with Drupal 8 or 9: Adding views to your page content is now incredibly straightforward: $content['editor_tools']['view'] = [ '#type' => 'view', '#name' => 'editor_tools', '#display_id' => 'embed', '#arguments' => [ 123, ], ]; And that's it! $content is my render array which I'll return and let Drupal render. I suspect most of the bits there are self-explanatory, but in case they aren't: * '#type' => 'view' is the magic...