Issue 671 - February, 27th 2025

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Headlines

Drupal Association Blog: DrupalCon Atlanta 2025: Key Sessions for Agency/Business Owners

From Our Sponsor

Articles

12 Free Plugins to Supercharge Your CKEditor 5 Experience

Aten Design Group: Syncing Drupal and React for a Custom Interactive Map for Tampa International Airport

Dries Buytaert: Automating Alt-Text Generation with AI

Drupal CMS vs Drupal Core - Discover the Differences - Droptica

Drupal Life Hack's: Why Using current_route_match in Access Checks Is Problematic

DXPR: Unveiling the CKEditor AI Writing Agent in the Drupal Ecosystem

joshics.in: Say No to Auto-Updates: Why Your Website Deserves Better Than Subscription Overhaul

"Automatic online subscriptions for updating core, contrib modules, and themes might promise a hands-off solution, but they come with trade-offs that can jeopardize your site’s stability, security, and flexibility."

joshics.in: WordPress vs. Drupal: An Honest Comparison for Your Next Web Project

No More Support for Drupal 7, No Worries—Free Audit Available at OPTASY

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Long-Term Support for CKEditor 4

Palantir: What's Going on with EditTogether?

The Drop Times: "Hopelessly and Inseperably Entangled with Drupal"

The Drop Times: Google Gemini Provider (Beta): A Plugin for Drupal AI Module

Trusting AI with My Images Wasn't Easy

Wim Leers: XB Week 26: ComponentSource Plugins

Wim Leers: XB Week 27: UX Improvements for Populating Component Instances

Tutorials

Specbee: Exploring the Drupal Views Module - Are You Using These Must-Know Features?

Tag1 Consulting: Migrating Your Data from D7 to D10: Migrating Media. Creating Custom Source Plugins.

Tag1 Consulting: Migrating Your Data from D7 to D10: Migrating Nodes - Part 1

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Tag1 Consulting: Migrating Your Data from D7 to D10: Migrating Nodes - Part 2

The Savvy Few: How to Use Pantheon Stripped “Utm_*” Query String Parameters in Drupal

Releases

admin_toolbar 3.5.3

Drupal 10.3.13

Drupal 10.4.3

Drupal 11.0.12

Drupal 11.1.3

Eca 2.0.13

Eca 2.1.4

entity_manager 1.0.2

Registration 3.4.1

search_api 8.x-1.38

site_settings 2.0.2

Tagify 1.2.33

Trash 3.0.13

Podcasts

Lullabot Podcast: Directing How Single Directory Components Directly Simplify Theming

Talking Drupal #490 - Drupal Contrib First