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This morning after upgrading to 11.4.5 I cannot access config menu. Error is The website encountered an unexpected error. Try again later. It ha been a few hours, no change. I just checked the Statis report, same error. I can get into the recent log messages. I think I see the entry but have no idea how to fix. Here it is:

Message: Drupal\Core\Database\DatabaseExceptionWrapper: SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'locale_file.hash' in 'SELECT': SELECT "locale_file"."project" AS "project", "locale_file"."langcode" AS "langcode", "locale_file"."version" AS "version", "locale_file"."timestamp" AS "timestamp", "locale_file"."hash" AS "hash", "locale_file"."last_checked" AS "last_checked" FROM "locale_file" "locale_file" WHERE ("project" = :db_condition_placeholder_0) AND ("langcode" = :db_condition_placeholder_1); Array ( [:db_condition_placeholder_0] => bartik [:db_condition_placeholder_1] => en-gb ) in Drupal\locale\CurrentImportStorage->get() (line 68 of /home/shirmkth8bfz/public_html/windsofhawi.com/drupal/core/modules/locale/src/CurrentImportStorage.php).

Below that is a much longer backtrace. Will post it if necessary. Any ideas?

drupal-wiki.com, why is it called that way? I mean does it have anything from Drupal? Seems like a closed system which isn't open-source obviously.

We have a content type with a multi-select field with (let's say) options A, B, C, D. A ton of nodes already have the field populated with content. We need to add an option E, and would like to have it selected if B is also already selected.

Is Views Bulk Operations with Views Bulk Edit our best (or only) option?

Codex can build / fix modules, develop the core of Drupal today, almost no developer needed already, what will be the future for this type of software communty ?

We've audited a lot of Drupal 7 sites this year.

Same things keep showing up.

Modules nobody uses but nobody removed either. They just sit there. Unmaintained. Invisible until they're not.

Integrations the original developer built in 2016 and never wrote down. Current team has no idea what connects to what. We've had to reverse-engineer CRM connections from database logs because there was no other record they existed.

Custom themes nobody wants to touch. PHPTemplate, built when the site launched, last modified when someone added a banner in 2020. The institutional knowledge of how it works left with whoever built it.

PageSpeed scores under 40 on mobile. Not because the hosting is bad. Because nobody has looked at performance since the site went live.

And no process for security advisories. Drupal published 30 in July 2026 alone. Most of these teams knew about zero of them.

The one thing the better-maintained sites have in common: someone actually runs Upgrade Status and does something with what it finds. That's it. Not complicated.

Curious what others are seeing out there. Same patterns or different?

Did anybody go to day one?

If so, how was it? I can't really find any videos from it online yet... Seems like it's smaller than years prior?

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Link to the post: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/garfieldtech-v3

Excerpt:

So why move away from Drupal after 20 years?

1. ...
   
2. ...
   
3. ...
   
4. I didn't want to keep supporting a project lead by a known cheater, liar, autism-shamer, and biggot.

it's hard enough to book WP sites...

how can a single freelancer book Drupal projects?

I've had a few over the years, but it was mostly by luck!

any tips or suggestions short of "my uncle owns the business", "word of mouth" or "I work at NASA" advice?😅

had a client last month whose site went from like 2s to 9s load time over the past couple years. support kept telling them enable caching and it'll be fine. it wasn't.

spent a day actually digging instead of just throwing cache at it and found the real problems -

images were like 5mb+ per page, nobody ever compressed them. 23 modules installed that literally weren't being used anywhere on the site. hosting was still running an old php version, not really set up right for D11. and no cdn, so every single asset was hitting the origin server directly

fixed all of it over about a week, didn't even touch caching config in the end. once the actual bloat was gone the default caching handled everything fine

not the first time i've seen this either, feels like half the "why is my site slow" posts jump straight to caching or hosting when its actually just years of stuff nobody cleaned up

what do you guys usually check first when someone says their drupal site is slow

The thing that trips people up most isn't the module compatibility list — it's field data that technically migrates but silently loses formatting or reference integrity. Run a full content audit before you start, not just a module audit. Specifically check: paragraph/field collection nesting, any custom entity reference views, and URL alias patterns if you're on pathauto. Those three are where most "successful" migrations turn into a six-month cleanup project afterward.

I have an old Drupal 7 site that I can't seemingly migrate to drupal 11, Here's where I am at present:

I downloaded all the files from the existing site and created a ddev copy of the site with the same php version etc, the site renders and i can view all the nodes and such

I created a new ddev project running Drupal 11.4.4 and add a secondary db to that via ddev import-db --file=/home//Documents/Sites/sitename/databasename_2013.sql I also created .ddev/docker-compose.volumes.yaml so can mount the files etc from the drupal 7 site for the migration module as well as added the required modules that I used on the drupal 7 site if they existed

After running the migrate step via the extension Migrate Drupal UI I see that the images & users are imported in the new ddev Drupal 11 site, the images are too, but none of the nodes are done, I'm stumped on how to proceed now, I suspect the issue is related to multi languages as that site initially was drupal 6 and multi language enabled but not sure how to check now after all these years

Currently looking into ddev and composer to manage stuff, but i'm unsure about the following

I know I can use eg composer to install modules eg: composer require 'drupal/ctools:^4.1'

this will grab ctools but I still need to use the gui/site in drupal 11 to enable that, can't i activate it in the cli? Google is failing me atm

I am using codex to write modules for drupal now, it works perfectly without problem, but I have to manually upload to Drupal and communicate with codex for what happen, its still fine but bit slow, I am working between the site online and codex, am looking for a way to let codex work directly for the site, anyone has experience for this ? Thank you.

Hello. I’m an SEO but new to drupal world. I have no idea about modules, how they work or how to use and finalise them. But I’m new to this job and it’s all about drupal.
And i’m a lil lost in all these modules. Is there a place where people get all the seo specific drupal modules? Or any modules anyone here would know that are a must for a drupal website? Please help a newbie out. :)

Fastly's performance doesn't match the expectations set by their name!

Not sure why it's added, but it's terrible as drupal.org now fails core web vitals.

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/0b5urh3up8

With Drupal 7 reached end of life, I’m curious how organizations that haven’t migrated yet are approaching the transition.

● Are you planning a move to Drupal 11 in the next few months?
● What’s been the biggest blocker—budget, custom modules, integrations, or migration complexity?
● If you’ve already completed the migration, what was the biggest challenge and what would you do differently?

I work with a team that focuses on Drupal migrations, so I’m interested in understanding the real-world pain points organizations are facing rather than making assumptions. It would be great to hear experiences from nonprofits, universities, healthcare organizations, and enterprise teams that are still evaluating their options.
Looking forward to hearing your experiences and learning from the community.