Posts in Drupal

Angular 2 Boilerplate Setup for Small Drupal 7 Applications

If you've ever wanted to use Angular for part of a Drupal project, you probably know that a quick google search is going to return all kinds of results about using Angular as a frontend for a detached, headless Drupal backend. But that's not always what you want. You might have an existing site that could be improved by a small scale Angular based component. Or maybe you're wary of the SEO issues that could arise from having an SPA.

Drupal 8 Quick Tip: Entity View Hooks

By default, Drupal 8 comes optimized for performance.  If you've use the standard install profile, you might find that it's difficult to develop or debug changes to the way an entity is displayed.  I spent an hour or so last night trying to figure out why my code in hook_node_view as behaving strangely.  Code would run once, and then not again, and if I made changes they wouldn't show up.  Very strange!

Drupal, Wordpress and Content Management Technology at Kilpatrick Design

When working with clients before starting a new project, we often discuss a familiar short list of content management systems. We're big fans of Drupal here at Kilpatrick Design (for reasons I'll outline below), but considering how often we have this conversation I thought it'd be helpful to us, to potential clients, and to anyone else out there who has been evaluating content management options, to discuss some of the details that drive these technology decisions.