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Rendering plugin blocks the right way
On a recent client website, I needed to programmatically load and render 3 blocks. Plugin blocks to be precise. In modern Drupal, there are 3 types of block you can load/render:Read article →Entity Extra Field module: display blocks & views amongst fields
I'm a fan of configuring things for display through Drupal's admin UI. It gives site builders confidence and power. What if you want to place blocks or views listings in amongst fields on pages of content? For example, to display:Read article →Context-aware blocks
Defining your own Drupal block plugins in custom code is really powerful, but sometimes you can feel limited by what those blocks have access to. Your block class is like a blank canvas that you know you'll be pulling data into, but how should you get that data from the…Read article →Rendering Drupal fields (the right way)
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…Read article →Place blocks inside your content with EBA
Previously on this website I have written about rendering blocks programmatically and adding things to content to be managed alongside fields. It's time to combine the two! On many projects, we find ourselves needing to render a block consistently across all content of a…Read article →Render a block programmatically
This is a real quick one, but so useful! We often want to render a block within content, perhaps as part of a node (maybe in hook_node_view, and then made configurable like a field), but there's no obvious way to do this correctly for any block. Drupal normally renders its…Read article →Views 2: Making a drupal views block title link back to the view
We wrote an article about linking a view's block title to the companion page view, in Drupal 5. Someone asked for a Drupal 6 version, which can be quite easily done with a preprocess function, but it's not very flexible.Read article →Let's talk
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