Issue 263 - October, 27th 2016

News

What's New on Drupal.org? - September 2016

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Articles

The New Drupal 8 Initiatives

Addison Berry explains how the new initiatives in Drupal 8 are going to work.

Managing Your Website with Composer? Drop Guard Has Got You Covered!

Secure your Drupal project with Drop Guard, the fast and smart way to manage core and contrib updates. Drop Guard integrates with Composer, JIRA, Redmine and your favourite CI tool. Convince yourself for free!

Tutorials

Drupal 8 UX: Fix CKEditor Form Height

Fixing the Composer Global Command

Greg Anderson shares the Cgr project to avoid dependency issues caused by using composer global install.

How to Make Fields Persistent in Drupal 8

See how Web Wash solved the need to have a field automatically added to new content types in the same way body fields are automatically added.

Clients Don’t Want to Be Billed Hourly for Site Maintenance - Even if They Say They Do!

Why providing maintenance and support "hourly as needed" is worse for you and the client (even if they don't realize it yet)

Migrating XML in Drupal 8

Learn how you can use the Migrate Plus module in Drupal 8 to import remote and local XML data.

Responsive Images in Drupal 8 Using "srcset"

Chris Free shows us how to use srcset for images in Drupal 8.

Understanding Drupal 8 Routes and Controllers

Projects

Conductor, a Composer UI

Matt Glaman shares a GUI for Composer.

CSSgram Recreating Instagram Like Filters for Drupal 8

"CSSgram module supplements Drupal Image styling experience by making Instagram like filters available to your Drupal 8 site images, we do this with help of CSSgram library."

Getting NYU Onto YAML Form

Brian Lewis shares how he used YAML Form module in Drupal 8 to provide event registration.

Releases

Coffee 7.x-2.3

Coffee 8.x-1.0-Beta2

Draggableviews 8.x-1.0

Jsonapi 8.x-1.0-Alpha1

Media 7.x-2.0-Beta3

Quiz 7.x-5.0

Transliterate 7.x-1.1

Transliterate 8.x-1.3

Webform 7.x-3.25

Yamlform 8.x-1.0-Beta21