So, like Icarus, I flew too close to the sun, and fucked up. I was trying to upgrade a small site from Drupal 9.3 because something under the hood was stopping image files from uploading. Unfortunately, I didn't read the instructions on upgrading correctly. While going from 9.3 to 9.5 went fine, at the next step, it went all the way to 11.3, which has rendered the site unreachable, except for the update.php page.

The problems I'm facing are:

1. It wants the CKEditor module installed, but that's only compatible with Drupal 10
2. I've used Composer to add the MySQL57 module, and added the needed line to my settings.php, but I can't get in to the administrative interface to install the module there.
3. Something somewhere is reporting that the installed Drupal version is below 9.4
4. Attempts to access other site pages produce "Uncaught PHP Exception TypeError: "Drupal\Core\Utility\ThemeRegistry::getPreprocessInvokes(): Return value must be of type array, null returned"" at /core/lib/Drupal/Core/Utility/ThemeRegistry.php line 180

So, my question is:

• Is it possible to rollback to, say, Drupal 10, at this point, or should I just rebuild the site from scratch? (I have access to an ancient backup of the site.)

I should add that there's something weird going on with the installation of Drush I'm working with as it seems to only be interacting with one of the multiple sites we have with this hosting provider, and it's not the problem site.

I've been using Drush on Drupal 7 for a long time, but having started on Drupal 11 I've gotten more used to the Composer approach and see on Drupal.org that many Drupal 7 modules can be installed through composer.

Are there any gotchas installing Drupal 7 and installing/upgrading modules with composer?

Is Composer usage on Drupal 7 mature and comparable or even better than Drush?

Hello fellas,

we often encounter the case of content types with fields grouped in field groups that need to be rendered in a specific fashion (e.g. table, definition list), sometimes each group with its own markup.

The motivation is accessibility.

Our goal is to have a template suggestion for fields that look like:

[entity-type]__[view-mode]__[field-name]__[field-group-name]

so that a field can be formatted differently according to its host group.

At the moment no one in the team has been able to solve the conundrum.

Any suggestion (pun intended) is highly appreciated.

Six situations this week working with AI agents on Drupal. Some saved me hours. Others tried to ship solutions that looked right but weren't.

One bug had been stuck at an agency for hours and got resolved in 30 minutes. Another fix, if I had accepted it as-is, would have left me with custom patches on contrib modules.

The AI conversation usually focuses on the speed and skips what you have to catch in review. Wrote it down with the six cases. If you work with Drupal or with code in general, curious what you think.

https://menetray.com/en/blog/six-real-world-ai-cases-drupal-week

I made a small starter kit for using Drupal without putting Drupal in production.

The idea is simple.

Run Drupal locally with DDEV. Use it as the CMS. Astro fetches the content at build time through JSON:API and Linkset. Then you deploy the static output.

No hosted Drupal.
No production database.
No PHP runtime on the public site.

Repo:
https://github.com/rovo79/Drupal_Astro_Kit

First run:
~~~
git clone https://github.com/rovo79/Drupal_Astro_Kit.git

cd Drupal_Astro_Kit

./setup.sh
~~~

This is not meant to replace every Drupal site. It is for the cases where the public site does not need to be dynamic, but the content editing model still benefits from Drupal.

It is early, but the basic path is there: clone, setup, edit content locally, build static files, deploy dist/.

If you try it and the first run breaks, I’d want to know where.

Hi, Drupal Developer here with 10+ years of remote experience with Drupal 7-10.

I am now currently working for a full-time remote position; but every application on LinkedIn/Indeed yields no results, not even a mail from recruiter.

So, the question is, which sites are most popular for Drupal positions? Or what approach can I use to land a job with Drupal?

Thank you for all the answers!

I am trying to upgrade a Drupal CMS 1.1.0 installation and Composer says drupal cms is locked to 1.1.0 and causes conflicts with other modules.

Below is a quotation from this link - https://www.drupal.org/project/cms/releases/2.1.0-beta1

Drupal CMS 2.1.0-beta includes a new site template, Haven, with a warm and bright design and features aimed at non-profit websites.

This release should be used for testing only and is not suitable for building websites. There is no update path for Drupal CMS.

It may be a glorious journey to upgrade from the current Drupal CMS 1.1.0 but I don't feel that adventurous.

Right now I just want to make sure I don't fall behind on security updates with all installed modules whether they are part of the Drupal CMS 1.x recipes even if I don't upgrade to 2.x.x.

If Drupal CMS 1.x is locked to particular versions of Drupal Core does that mean it will be eventually insecure and have to be abandoned, unless it offers the ability transfer the content to Drupal 2.x?

Hi,

In a couple of weeks I’ll be trying to get my backend specialist certification. However I don’t feel like I’ve grasped the concepts of Core API and especially caching that well… so I would like to ask for tips and tricks for getting better at them.

Also, how did you experience the exam? What kind of questions did they ask?

I’d like to know!

Hi! I am a full stack developer -- MERN, Django specializing in backend, I have seen many people using platforms like wordpress, shopify, drupal, flutter to make websites rather than coding everything from scratch.

I genuinely have no experience with these apps and want to explore these things.

I learned PHP and how it works recently to understand drupal but I am not finding any good resource to learn drupal, can any gentlemen or woman help me with their knowledge from where I can learn about Drupal architecture?

TL, DR: Looking for drupal learning resources.

Thank you !

Have an on prem D7 environment and looking to move everything into the cloud (Azure or AWS).

Discussions around the table is approach:

1. Upgrade to D11 then move to the cloud?

or

1. Move to the cloud then do the upgrade?

Any tips, tricks, or recommendations are appreciated.

Hey, let's say I initiated new Drupal project locally using official ddev instructions. Smooth and clean experience, all good. Now, what to do next? I would like to start develop - turn off twig and any other caching, enable debugging, ensure that .gitignore is prepare for a composer-managed project, configure config_sync_directory so i can store entire site configuration in a git.

Nothing special I would say - just a normal way of working on a stuff as a developer, while keeping the best practices.

And the question is: Where I can find some official docs so I do not have to use a tribal knowledge or guess whether I configured my gitignore, settings and services files correctly? Where i can read such an infos like why there is a dot in third line of .gitignore, after /vendor.?

Did I missed something or this part is not well documented?