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By mherchel, 28 September, 2022

New |add_suggestion Twig Filter Added to Drupal 10!

Drupal 10’s front-end continues to make great strides! This time, we’ve added a new Twig filter called |add_suggestion.

DrupalCon Prague Recap

I attended DrupalCon Prague over the last week. It was wonderful to see old friends and meet new friends in such a beautiful location.

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By mherchel, 14 September, 2022

Three Sessions / Two Conferences: DrupalCon Prague and Inclusive Design 24

Next week I’ll be giving three presentations – two for DrupalCon Europe, and one for Inclusive Design 24, which is a remote 24 hour conference on accessibility.

Smashing Magazine Article on Olivero’s Menu System

I wrote an article in Smashing Magazine detailing all of usability and accessibility work that went into the menu system within Drupal’s Olivero theme.

New to Drupal: Improved Dumping of Twig Variables!

This is huge! New to Twig in Drupal core (as of 9.5.x) is a much improved version of {{dump()}}!

New to Drupal core: Refactored Off-Canvas Dialog CSS!

Drupal 10 has completely refactored off-canvas stylesheets! While the look and feel is the same, it’s now dramatically easier to customize, and will likely have a new design soon.

Views Responsive Grid added to Drupal 10 core!

Earlier today a new killer feature was committed to Drupal 10 core: Views Responsive Grids. But, it’s more than that.

Supporting an unknown amount of menu items within Olivero’s menu

In a normal (e.g. client) website project, we have an idea on how many menu items will appear in the menu. But, when you’re developing a default theme for Drupal core, any assumptions get thrown out the window. We have no clue how many menu items the user will add. How do we handle this ?

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By mherchel, 20 June, 2022

Pitfalls (and fixes) when lazy-loading images in Drupal

As of version 9.1, Drupal automatically lazy-loads images by default. This functionality adds a loading="lazy" attribute when outputting an <img> tag. When the browser sees this, it will not download the image until it enters the viewport. This can save your user (and your web host) gobs on bandwidth by not downloading images that will never be used.

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By mherchel, 8 June, 2022

Thoughts and Experiences at DrupalCon Portland

For the first time since 2019, the Drupal community has gotten together at a DrupalCon, and whew, it was a lot! Last month I attended DrupalCon in Portland, Oregon. This was my thirteenth in-person DrupalCon!

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