I’ve been finding it increasingly challenging to position Drupal with clients when WordPress tends to feel more stable in comparison. The Drupal 7 → 8 migration was already a tough sell for some clients, and now the CKEditor 4 → 5 migration feels like another uphill climb.

Many of the CKEditor ecosystem modules (Linkit, CKEditor Templates, etc.) have taken a long time to fully catch up, and some are still buggy. On top of that, core and contributed modules often need patches to work as expected, and sometimes updates introduce new issues rather than resolving them.

I’d love to hear how others approach this:

• How do you frame Drupal’s value when clients are frustrated by bugs and regressions?
• What strategies do you use to maintain stability and client confidence? Testing my own custom code is one thing, but I expect contributed modules to do this for themselves. I guess that’s a wrong assumption. Having a dev, staging, and production site are good too, but they only go so far for the sneaky regressions that make their way into a live site.
• Do you think we could move toward stronger automated testing for contrib, maybe even with AI to help increase coverage?

Is anyone else a little weary of CKEditor at this point? It’s surprising that in 2025 we still don’t have a truly smooth WYSIWYG experience in Drupal. It reminds me of the growing pains we had with media in early Drupal 8.

This follows up a previous post "Duplicating a D7 site's front page layout in D11, DXPR theme" but I'm trying to focus the question better. I need a FRONT page structure having:
-- a top region containing a banner graphic
-- menu region for main menu of 7 items with dropdowns
-- big region displaying a cycling slideshow of photo images
-- secondary menu region for a 4-item menu with "mega menu" (multiple column) dropdowns
-- main content area in an approximate 1/3-2/3, 2-column structure
-- footer region containing a banner graphic

Then a BASIC page structure for other pages having:
-- same top region
-- same main menu region
-- main content area in an approximate 1/3-2/3, 2-column structure
-- footer region containing a banner graphic

Given that goal, what theme or starting theme would probably be best to get there? I have tried to use the DXPR theme but frankly, I'm not understanding how to get what's desired from it. The old D7 site was not responsive. I need the new version to have that, but also want to have a fixed width within the range of desktop screen dimensions.
-- Thanks --

Hello,

I've got two content types:
Houses, Flyers

Houses is mostly just address, name - that's it.
Flyers contains media field to upload files and a reference to a house.

So 1 House : n Flyers - Relationship.

Now, I'd like to use the API to retrieve all Flyers with a certain House ID.
I've got the ID, I can see all the Flyers via Postman, when I GET URL/jsonapi/node/flyer
and I can see inside each flyer:

 ... "field_something": "xyz" }, "relationships": { ... "field_house": { "data": { "type": "node--house", "id": "893aa231-e276-4f47-a3c0-efavfdv", "meta": { "drupal_internal__target_id": 960 } }, a aaa 

Somehow, I can filter by all fields inside attributes.
Is it possible to filter by by details inside relationships as well?

When I filter like:

flyer?filter[relationships.field_house.data.id]=893aa231-e276-4f47-a3c0-efavfdv

I get a response:

 "errors": [ { "title": "Bad Request", "status": "400", "detail": "Invalid nested filtering. The field `relationships`, given in the path `relationships.field_house.data.id`, does not exist.", 

I've recommended to a friend it's just I'm in design so maybe for me it's easy but dunno for him tho.

I am running a multisite environment (70+ sites) where some sites need to have the same "ribbon menu" above my main navigation. I currently have one theme and would like to keep it that way.

How can I add a "checkbox" to my theme settings that, if checked, will insert a specific twig file in a region. Otherwise, that twig file is not inserted.

I was able to do something similar in D7, but can't figure out how to do it in D8/10 and Drupal's documentation isn't very clear.

I am using Commerce Centauro Module, I saw alot of options to implement payment, like paypal.
I want to know what are the best options? Especially free ones. Its about payments so I want to be sure I am using the best modules.

Hi everyone, I'm currently using Drupal 11 and I have a specific content type. Within this content type, there's a list field with an option, for example, "free." The content itself is not published by default, and users cannot change this setting. My goal is to automatically publish the content whenever the "free" option is selected in the list field. I've already tried using the Rules and ECA modules, but they haven't worked for me. I'm not sure why. Can you please help me?

Has anyone else been in a situation where you were asked to use the same flag (like bookmark this node) at the top of the node and the bottom, and had to solve for the issue where AJAX will cause clicking one to scroll to the other since they’re identical?

Hello,

I am a Drupal developer and I want to write some interesting guides or tutorials for the community about technical topics of Drupal, varying from development to deployment and I wanted to ask some ideas.

Thanks in advance

First of all: Yes, I am trying to get the word out about my new product, and I want to be honest about that. Do know that I genuinely think this can be useful for all of you, and I’d really appreciate your feedback!

Anyway, getting a website ready for scale can be tricky. Caching is hard, cloud providers can be overwhelming, and it’s not the work you like to be doing. I know, I’ve been there 😉

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At this point I’m hosting it the Netherlands, because that’s where I’ve found the most green provider I know. Running on renewable energy, and reusing the heat from servers to warm public buildings and water for showers. If you know anything like this elsewhere in the world I’m very interested in that! But at this point I’m looking for devs in the EU, to start things out.

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Hello, 2 years ago, I was working for a customer and I needed to install Drupal inside a VPS, and I was facing many issues with the typical PHP configuration, so I decided to use Docker, in which I set up the configuration.

I created an article for my company website and a GitHub repository, and unexpectedly, the SEO ranked a lot, and it was receiving traffic daily. And for this reason, due to another customer's work, I had the opportunity to update the codebase recently, specifically for SSL and Drupal 11.

I want to share because I would like to receive feedback for further improvements, and it can even be helpful for other people with the same issue as me.

The configuration I had been using is:
- Nginx for public access with a reverse proxy that manages SSL certificates
- PHP FPM + Drupal + Composer
- MariaDB / MySQL
- PhpMyAdmin as extra.

And the issue I was facing is the permission management with SSL certificates generated by the hosting machine, in which Docker has trouble reading, as it doesn't have root access to read the SSL certificates, and I must do a local copy, making trouble every 3 months. And I was considering a solution like certbot image.

Feel free to be critical, but not offensive.

Thanks:

Github link: https://github.com/AndreaCorda01/drupal-docker-boilerplate

Website blog: https://www.geonovation.it/article/how-deploy-drupal-website-linux-nginx-and-docker

Does Anyone has Test Dumps available , for acquia certified developer D 11 so i can get an idea of questions ? also any tips to prepare for exam?