After a couple of weeks of coding and testing, I've tagged a first alpha release of the ActivityPub module for Drupal! It implements the protocol so that you can communicate with other Drupal sites or platforms which support ActivityPub. Remote accounts on for example Mastodon or Pixelfed can follow any user on a Drupal site now and read content, like posts and reply from their platform. It's only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible with AP, but the main focus at this point is discovery of content and users on remote platforms and performing typical social responses (reply, favorite, announce).

The core of the implementation uses Drupal plugins to map fields and content types to activity types. Being in alpha means that the interfaces will most likely change as bugs are fixed and new features will be implemented, but I'll document those when I tag a new version. For more information, installation and configuration, check the README which I will continue to update as well.

Main features

• Enable ActivityPub per user, discovery via the Webfinger module
• Map Activity types and properties to content types and create posts to send out to the Fediverse.
• Create comments from Create activities from remote users to content
• Accept follow requests, Undo (follow), Outbox, Inbox and followers endpoints
• Send posts via drush or cron, with HttpSignature for authorization

Follow me!

Have an account on Mastodon, Pixelfed or Pleroma? Then you can follow me via @swentel@realize.be. Discovery probably works on most other platforms as well, but I haven't interacted with those yet, and I hope other people will download and start testing with those as well.

Start:  2020-10-22 18:30 - 20:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:  rlhawk jcost mortona2k Event type:  User group meeting

We will meet at 6:30 pm on Thursday, October 22. Note that this is the fourth Thursday of the month, not the usual third

Agenda

• Introductions
• Announcements
• Drupal news
• Reports about what we liked and learned at BADCamp
• Demos and discussions about debugging with XDebug

Location

Online; the URL for the meeting will be shared in the SeaDUG Slack workspace and with anyone who signs up for the event.

How would you like to be able to set up an ecommerce platform on your drupal site in less than 60 seconds? You can!   In this video, I want to share with you my little frustration with drupal and drupal e-commerce. It's really hard to set up!  However,  there's a fantastic e-commerce platform called ecwid that allows you to set up your store in no time.  Then you can literally have it embedded on your Drupal site in less than 60 seconds. People will never know the difference, because everything stays on your Drupal site!   Let's check it out.

Third and Grove is honored to have three clients making the final round for the Acquia Engage 2020 awards.

In this video I show a set of Open Source tools we have created to manage the whole application lifecycle when embedding JS apps inside of Drupal. You can fork these tools, and with a couple of clicks you will get a demo of progressive decoupling in Drupal in your own site. This works in Drupal 8 and Drupal 9.

If you've followed Pantheon's Build Tool Instructions and used Pantheon's Example Drops 8 Composer as the base to take advantage of CircleCI then you've encountered Behat tests. Behat tests are extremely valuable for testing site functionality before new code goes to production or a shared code stream. However, on a custom site these default tests provided by Pantheon are likely to fail if you've made even a benign change like deleting Tags vocabulary on a Drupal standard installation.

CMS Buyers Guide Type Tool/Template Firas Ghunaim Thu, 10/08/2020 - 16:26

 

At the core of any successful digital transformation is finding the ideal CMS that best fits your enterprise short and long-term digital objectives.

However, this decision making process can take a lot of time and effort.

To simply this process, our team developed this guide to help you identify the CMS that best suits your enterprise and your end-users based on the criteria that is relevant to your business requirements.

The CMS Buyers Guide will feature:

• Vendor and product viability
• Budget concerns
• CMS capabilities
• Best practices and standards
• ... and much more.

Download the CMS Buyers Guide by filling out the form to the right.

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From its conception, the fundamental (ground) idea of the internet was the exchange of information through code snippets of a markup language. This is still the ground principle that moves the internet these days. There are, of course, a lot of other things you can do over the internet, but it all comes down to an exchange of information.

With this kind of freedom, it is not surprising, that people abuse this for their own benefit. Spam comments are a form of abusing this privilege.

The combination of the Drupal modules Honeypot and Antibot will ensure that your site is “almost” 100% protected from spam (at least the ones produced by robots).

Keep reading to learn how to Control Spam in Drupal with Honeypot and/or Antibot!

Have you ever happily pushed your latest piece of work ready for others to test only to have it fail the build on coding standards? If so, git pre commit hooks could be your friend!

by saul.willers / 8 October 2020

It's pretty standard practice these days for CI build pipelines to include linting steps to ensure things like coding standards pass. Depending on how the build is configured, failing coding standards can result in the entire build failing. 

Because linting is generally not resource intensive, running it locally can be a useful time saver. But it's an easy step to forget. Thankfully it can be automated to run before every git commit with a pre-commit hook.

First we need a script to fire before the commit. This is placed in the project repo somewhere like .git-hooks/pre-commit:

#!/bin/sh

make lint-php
exit $?

We use Makefiles to call our custom lint-php rule, but this could be a Robo command or any other task running which fires your coding standard check.

Next, the script needs to be executable:

chmod +x .git-hooks/pre-commit

Then let git know about this script by running the following command:

git config core.hooksPath .git-hooks

That's it, our coding standards check will now automatically run whenever we do a git commit and stop the commit from proceeding if there is a fail.

If you've got a WIP or something you wish to commit regardless of any errors use git commit --no-verify

Hopefully this saves you from pushing coding standard fails in the future.

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Google  has made gigantic leaps in streamlining search results -- to the point that more than 50% of Google searches no longer result in a click-through to a website or other content. More often than not, search queries and question-based searches can now be answered directly from the Search Engine Results Page (SERP). 

Several months have passed since we've tagged our first Commerce Shipping release candidate, which added support for "billing same as shipping" address copying and resolved a variety of bugs.

Since then we've kept a close eye on the issue queue. Even though it isn't part of the core Commerce project itself, we consider it an essential contributed module in our ecosystem. We've resolved a few more "last mile" bugs and recently packaged the module's second release candidate.

Shipment confirmation emails

Thanks to the hard work of several community contributors, we now support sending a "shipment confirmation" email to notify customers when their ordered items are shipped.

This behavior is controlled by a setting at the shipment type level:

Similar to order receipts, it's also possible to resend the shipment confirmation from an order's shipments tab:

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Less than a week away from BADCamp liftoff!! Wed, 10/07/2020 - 12:00 volkswagenchick Wed, 10/07/2020 - 11:32 We are less than a week away from BADCamp liftoff!! Bay Area Drupal Camp (BADCamp) runs from 9 am - 4 pm PT from Wednesday, October 14 through Saturday, Oct 17. Limited-availability workshops and summits will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. This year we are delivering content in the Hopin platform and separate registration is required for both the workshop and summits block and the sessions. We understand that you may have already registered on the BADCamp website, but we do require folks to register on Hopin as well. Drupal Planet

Here’s a dirty secret: most businesses are unsatisfied with their website. Research shows that 34% of website owners are unsatisfied with the amount of business their website generates for them. Loudhouse data suggests that 62% of business owners believe a more effective website would increase their sales. And millions of business websites deal with slow load times, inconsistent customer experiences, and problematic UI/UX issues.

There’s a reason that 36% of small businesses STILL don’t have a website. Creating an amazing, design-driven, customer-centric website is challenging. So, what do you do when your website isn’t making the cut? You look towards the source — your Content Management System (CMS). Every year, thousands of private and public entities migrate their website to a new CMS.

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Matt and Mike have former CEO Matt Westgate on to talk about his transition to Tugboat, and also speak with new CEO Seth Brown to talk about what's upcoming for Lullabot.

Automatically redirecting a user after logging into your Drupal website is a common requirement. In Drupal 7, you would probably have used hook_user_login() to perform this task, but with Drupal 8 came a more robust way to handle this. Our…

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In preparation for the minor release, Drupal 9.1.x will enter the alpha phase the week of October 19th, 2020. Core developers should plan to complete changes that are only allowed in minor releases prior to the alpha release. The 9.1.0-alpha1 deadline for most core patches is October 16. (More information on alpha and beta releases.)

• Developers and site owners can begin testing the alpha after its release.

• The 9.2.x branch of core will be created, and future feature and API additions will be targeted against that branch instead of 9.1.x. All outstanding issues filed against 9.1.x will be automatically migrated to 9.2.x.

• Once 9.2.x is branched, alpha experimental modules will be removed from the 9.1.x codebase (so their development will continue in 9.2.x only). The Config Environment module is an alpha stability module in 9.1.x.

• All issues filed against 9.0.x will then be migrated to 9.1.x, and subsequent bug reports should be targeted against the 9.1.x branch.

• During the alpha phase, core issues will be committed according to the following policy:

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In preparation for the minor release, Drupal 9.1.x will enter the alpha phase the week of October 19th, 2020. Core developers should plan to complete changes that are only allowed in minor releases prior to the alpha release. The 9.1.0-alpha1 deadline for most core patches is October 16. (More information on alpha and beta releases.)

• Developers and site owners can begin testing the alpha after its release.

• The 9.2.x branch of core will be created, and future feature and API additions will be targeted against that branch instead of 9.1.x. All outstanding issues filed against 9.1.x will be automatically migrated to 9.2.x.

• Once 9.2.x is branched, alpha experimental modules will be removed from the 9.1.x codebase (so their development will continue in 9.2.x only). The Config Environment module is an alpha stability module in 9.1.x.

• All issues filed against 9.0.x will then be migrated to 9.1.x, and subsequent bug reports should be targeted against the 9.1.x branch.

• During the alpha phase, core issues will be committed according to the following policy:

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Drupal 9: All questions answered here Shalini Rawat Tue, 10/06/2020 - 18:06

“The big deal about Drupal 9 is … that it should not be a big deal” - Dries Buytaert (Founder and Project Lead of Drupal)

June 2020 marked the onset of the long-awaited version 9 of the Drupal CMS. And just like every product, the moment this new CMS rolled out, it raised a lot of interest in the Drupal community as well as among Drupal users. The interest was to understand the new version of Drupal with a view to unlocking the new digital opportunities. Logically this interest gave rise to a number of questions in the head of users, right from the ways to migrate to what this new release actually means to a user.

There are some common concerns about Drupal 9 that every Drupal user is battling with in some way or another way. Therefore, in this blog, we have initiated to unpack the burning questions about Drupal 9 which will put all your questions at peace and will surely help you unleash the best user experience on your website. 

1. What’s new in Drupal 9? 

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Get Up to Speed with the AMP module for Drupal – A brief Tutorial Gurukiran 06 Oct, 2020 Top 10 best practices for designing a perfect UX for your mobile app

As the number of mobile users are increasing rapidly on a daily basis, it is essential to provide a speedy performance and uninterrupted user experiences for mobile users. AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) helps in improving the page load time for mobile experiences. Launched in October 2015 by Google, the open-source AMP project has been remarkably successful at expediting content to mobile devices. In this article we will talk about how you can install and configure the AMP module for your Drupal website. The Drupal AMP module supports Drupal 8 and Drupal 9.

AMP is an open-source HTML framework developed by Google’s AMP Open Source Project. AMP Pages provides mobile users with faster loading pages. Because Google is a sucker for speed and high performance, AMP also helps boost your SEO ranking. Google serves the AMP pages directly without going through the website which makes the page load lightning fast. The Drupal AMP Module provides valid AMP markup and a way to match the standards required for an AMP Page. This module converts the CSS into inline CSS. Currently, the AMP module only supports the conversion of the node pages.

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A little earlier, we have written several articles about website building on Drupal. This time we made a selection of medical websites that attracted our attention. There will be few clear examples of medical websites with screenshots and author comments. Just move on to the article, and you will see everything with your own eyes.

Read the article “Examples of medical websites that rely on Drupal” and be healthy!