Issue 653 - October, 3rd 2024

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Headlines

State of Drupal Presentation (September 2024)

Dries Buytaert: Announcing the Drupal Starshot Leadership Team

Adopt a Document - New Program to Bring Drupal Documentation to the Next Level | Drupal.org

Drupal Association Blog: The Drupal Association Announces 2024 Board Election Winner and 2 Additional New Board Members 

From Our Sponsor

Core

Asset Ordering Is Now More Strictly Determined by Library Dependencies

ResourceTypeBuildEvent Can Enable as Well as Disable Resource Type Fields

The "Plain Text" Field Formatter Now Restricts Links for Inaccessible Destinations

Articles

1xINTERNET Blog: Community Survey Analysis and Revised Implementation of Search in Drupal CMS (Formerly Starshot)

Data Collection Tool to Estimate the Cost of Migrating from Drupal 7 to 11 | Droptica

Drupalize.Me: Adopt a Document: Sponsor Drupal CMS Documentation

Horizontal Digital Blog: Introducing a Useful Tool for Hospitals on Drupal

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Introducing the Revolutionary Drupal CMS at DrupalCon Barcelona: A New Era in Drupal with AI-Enabled Website Building

Liip: DrupalCon Barcelona Recap

Metadrop: Improving Headers in a Drupal Site Using Dries' HTTP Header Analyzer

PreviousNext: Next Level Theming with Pinto

Specbee: Why You Can’t Ignore Google Crawlability, Indexability & Mobile-First Indexing in SEO

Tutorials

#! Code: Drupal 11: Using the Batch API to Process CSV Files

Acquia Developer Portal Blog: Project View: Realizing the Power of Drupal's Constraint Validation

Need to Run Drupal 7 After End of Life? No Problem, Tag1 D7ES Has You Covered!

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Drupal Life Hack's: Overview of Common Permissions in Drupal

Drupalize.Me: Drupal AI: How to Set It Up and Try It Out

Horizontal Digital Blog: Add an Icon for Your Custom Field Type in Drupal's Field UI

ImageX: Iconic Touch: Benefits of Icons and 10 Drupal Modules for Adding Icons to Your Website’s Pages

Metadrop: Optimizing Drupal Performance - Internal Page Cache

Drupal Life Hack's: Invoked Controllers as a Service

Specbee: Simplifying Drupal and Salesforce Integration: A How-to Guide

Web Wash: How to Organize Content Entity Forms in Drupal

Releases

config_modify 1.2.0

Docker4Drupal 6.0.17

Dotenv 1.1.3

Gutenberg 8.x-2.12

jsonapi_extras 8.x-3.26

role_expire 4.1.0

Podcasts

Episode 57 – Personalized Marketing Using First-Party Data and Gen AI with Deanna Ballew

Static Analysis with Dave Liddament - Beyond Blocks

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #469 - Drupal’s Popularity & Dev Experience