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Web devs: could a few people sanity-check a small in-page feedback tool I built?

Hey folks, I’m a web dev and I built a tiny tool for collecting website feedback directly on the page (click somewhere → leave a comment pinned to that spot).

I’m posting because I’m too close to it and I need honest outside feedback. I’m not trying to market anything — I’m specifically looking for people who’ll try it for 5–10 minutes and tell me what sucks / what’s unclear / what would stop you from using it on a real project.

What I’m hoping to learn:

  • Is the value obvious without me explaining it?
  • Does it feel smooth or fiddly?
  • What’s missing for real client reviews?
  • Any trust/privacy red flags at first glance?

If you’re willing, comment “I’ll test” and I’ll DM you a link (or DM me).
And if this kind of post isn’t allowed here, tell me and I’ll remove it right away.

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Drupal Upgrade to Drupal 2.0: A Quick Overview

Upgrading to Drupal 2.0 helps organizations modernize their websites with improved performance, stronger security, and better scalability. Older Drupal versions often face compatibility and maintenance challenges, making upgrades necessary for long-term digital growth.

Drupal 2.0 introduces a more flexible architecture, faster loading speeds, and improved integration capabilities with modern applications and cloud environments. It also enhances the content editing experience, allowing teams to manage websites more efficiently.

How the Upgrade Works

  • Assess the current Drupal website and modules
  • Replace outdated or unsupported components
  • Migrate content and configurations
  • Update themes for modern UI compatibility
  • Test performance and security before launch

Why It Matters

  • Improved website performance
  • Enhanced security standards
  • Easier integrations with third-party systems
  • Future-ready and scalable platform

Upgrading to Drupal 2.0 ensures your digital platform remains secure, efficient, and capable of supporting evolving business needs.

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CMS 2.0 vs Standard Drupal

Hi folks,

I’m currently exploring Drupal CMS 2.0 and would like to understand how it compares with the standard Drupal setup.

If you’ve worked with CMS 2.0, could you please share:

  • The key differences you noticed compared to standard Drupal
  • Pros and cons of using CMS 2.0
  • Any challenges or limitations you faced
  • Scenarios where CMS 2.0 is a better fit (or not recommended)

I’m trying to evaluate whether CMS 2.0 is suitable for long-term projects, so your real-world experiences and suggestions would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance—looking forward to your thoughts!

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Implementing a fairly complex database structure in Drupal.

I've been away from Drupal too long, sucked into WordPress. My company has an ongoing problem with the org chart - specifically it's advertising. I think I can use Drupal to manage this, but I have a lot of rust and haven't worked intensely with it in years (when 8 was current).

The Database I've sketched out uses a UUID approach to coordinate it's contents with outside databases it must stay in sync with, including the aforementioned WordPress site which I will be getting post information from. I'm trying to keep fields on only one table if feasible.

I'm going to go over some of the structure I designed without considering Drupal as the administrating program, so I am open to letting this change as long as I can get the same end result. Note also that this design is informed by schema.org entries for Medical Organizations - of which my company is one (and a fairly large one)

Everything is an Entity. This is the only table with an autoincrement field. Any entry created on any other table starts with an entity entry. For example, if I'm adding a provider the Entity table holds the mappings to the other databases, the entry name and a schema.org description, the person table contains information about the provider's name (given name, surname, which comes first since we have providers with Asian names, gender, etc), and the provider table contains information on whether they accepting new patients, the URL to their scheduler, their NPI (think social security number for medical professionals).

The provider table also cross-references with locations with additional information about which days the provider is at that location and which one is their primary. Another cross reference is which hospitals they have admission privileges to, and another maps which organizations they belong to. Yet another details their education, and their certifications, and the insurances they accept.

The UUID comes into play because hospitals also have insurance company contracts. So that table needs to be joinable with providers or hospitals.

So when I have an edit view of a provider I want the form to present this information cleanly without the user needing to go through multiple forms

I think Drupal can do this out of the box. If not out of the box I have written modules before, but in that event why use Drupal instead of just standing this up in Laravel or Symfony? I'm looking something that is resilient, but I don't want to spend more than a month on this if I can help it.

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Only the first 20 embedded images are shown

Hello,

Working a new Drupal site 11 site. And did some testing. When I embed more than 20 images from the media library in CKEditor field (full html).

All the embedded images are shown in CK editor.
But when I switch to the frontend only the fist 20 images are shown are shown. The other content (text) shows correct but images (after number 20) are stripped from the page (also from the html).

Switched the theme to Olivero (to test if this was theme related) but th same problem occurred. Played somewhat with the CKeditor setting (disabled/enabled html corrections).

Checked the logs (php/mysql/apache / console) but saw no error messages.

Any ideas/suggestions what can cause this?

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Is Drupal goodbfor higher education with three 3000 page websites?

As said in the title, a small university wants to move from modern campus to something else. I mentioned Drupal even though I have no experience with it but I saw that other large universities use it.

So can you give me some idea, thoughts and insides into it. What do you think the initial cost would be to have a 3rd party transfer and redevelopment the pages? The university wants to switch within the next few months.

I have to adjust my page count as today was the first day I could actually crawl my own websites and we have probably less than 1500 pages. I still want to go with this as it will be ready for the future and yearly less than what currently is paid.

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What Is the actual Drupal Way to Build list of teasers in Canvas?

With some excitement, I tried to build a site using Drupal Canvas. Not Drupal CMS, but actually building it from a clean installation. I rewired my thinking toward SDC, canvas pages, and canvas node templates, and after I fully understood it, I really thought Drupal might become a free-of-charge competitor to SaaS website builders like Webflow.

We talk about Drupal Canvas with excitement, but using it introduces two regressions for standard use cases compared to the old Drupal approach. Until these are solved, I do not see a wide adoption on production sites. The following:

First, it is not possible to switch other display types besides "full" to Canvas template. Drupal CMS somehow defines the Card display as managed by Canvas, but there is too much magic happening behind the scenes, which I was unable to replicate on my site. So if I have any view that should list some nodes in a form of a card/teaser, and let’s be honest, almost every site does, I am forced to use both a Canvas template for the full node and an old-style template file such as node--blogpost--teaser.html.twig, where I pass the props to SDC and mimic the Canvas usage for a teaser.

The second issue, no less important, is that the SDC with Canvas approach makes it impossible to use image styles. We are forced to use original images, and the canvas:image component has very limited functionality. Really? Image styles are one of the biggest advantages of Drupal.

How do you approach it? What is the actual "Drupal way" to build a list of cards with teaser images in Drupal Canvas based project? Is it there, or not yet?

Here are two related issues that i found regarding that, worth sharing:

https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas/issues/3562276
https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas/issues/3574412

This post is not intended to discredit Canvas, but simply to share a user’s experience and maybe help guide its development. Big thanks so far, keep going!

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[Help] PHPUnit in Drupal Multisite loading 'default' instead of specific site directory

Hey everyone, I'm running into a frustrating issue with a Drupal Multisite setup and could use some help.

I'm on a Linux server running Drupal 10.6.2 and Drush 12.5.3.0. My working directory is /var/www/uat.

Here is my /var/www/uat/phpunit.myWebsiteBBB.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <phpunit bootstrap="/var/www/uat/bootstrap.myWebsiteBBB.php" colors="true"> <php> <env name="DTT_SITE_DIR" value="myWebsiteBBB"/> <env name="SIMPLETEST_BASE_URL" value="https://uat.myWebsiteBBB.com"/> <env name="SIMPLETEST_DB" value="mysql://lmuat:Bwurp9vS(CQSbd5F@localhost:3306/myWebsiteBBB"/> <env name="BROWSERTEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY" value="/var/www/uat/web/sites/simpletest/browser_output"/> <ini name="memory_limit" value="-1"/> <server name="HTTP_HOST" value="uat.myWebsiteBBB.com"/> <server name="SERVER_NAME" value="uat.myWebsiteBBB.com"/> <env name="DTT_BASE_URL" value="https://uat.myWebsiteBBB.com"/> <env name="DTT_API_URL" value="https://uat.myWebsiteBBB.com"/> </php> <testsuites> <testsuite name="MyWebsiteBBB Existing Site Tests"> <directory>/var/www/uat/web/modules/custom/lps_api/tests/src/ExistingSite</directory> </testsuite> </testsuites> </phpunit> 

And my /var/www/uat/phpunit.myPageAAA.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <phpunit bootstrap="/var/www/uat/web/core/tests/bootstrap.php" colors="true"> <php> <env name="DTT_SITE_DIR" value="default"/> <env name="SIMPLETEST_BASE_URL" value="https://uat.myPageAAA.ca"/> <env name="SIMPLETEST_DB" value="mysql://lmuat:Bwurp9vS(CQSbd5F@localhost:3306/multisite"/> <env name="BROWSERTEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY" value="/var/www/uat/web/sites/simpletest/browser_output"/> <ini name="memory_limit" value="-1"/> <server name="HTTP_HOST" value="uat.myPageAAA.ca"/> <server name="SERVER_NAME" value="uat.myPageAAA.ca"/> <env name="DTT_BASE_URL" value="https://uat.myPageAAA.ca"/> <env name="DTT_API_URL" value="http://localhost"/> </php> <testsuites> <testsuite name="MyPageAAA Existing Site Tests"> <directory>/var/www/uat/web/modules/custom/lps_api/tests/src/ExistingSite</directory> </testsuite> </testsuites> </phpunit> 

The tests are located in: /var/www/uat/web/modules/custom/lps_api/tests/src/ExistingSite/

I added some lines to debug the environment in /var/www/uat/web/modules/custom/lps_api/tests/src/ExistingSite/ClinicImagesConsistencyTest.php:

public function testClinicImagesMatchJson(): void { // --- HOME SAFE DIAGNOSTICS --- $site_path = \Drupal::getContainer()->getParameter('site.path'); $db_name = \Drupal\Core\Database\Database::getConnection()->getConnectionOptions()['database']; $dtt_url = getenv('DTT_BASE_URL'); fwrite(STDERR, "\n--- SCAN RESULTS ---\n"); fwrite(STDERR, "1. Environment URL (DTT_BASE_URL): " . ($dtt_url ?: 'VACÍO') . "\n"); fwrite(STDERR, "2. Folder you chose to upload : " . $site_path . "\n"); fwrite(STDERR, "3. Final database : " . $db_name . "\n"); fwrite(STDERR, "------------------------------\n"); // --- END OF SAFE DIAGNOSIS --- 

In /var/www/uat/web/sites/sites.php:

<?php $sites['upcore.branchmanager.myWebsiteBBB.com'] = 'myWebsiteBBB'; $sites['dev.branchmanager.myWebsiteBBB.com'] = 'myWebsiteBBB'; $sites['myWebsiteBBB.com'] = 'myWebsiteBBB'; $sites['uat.myWebsiteBBB.com'] = 'myWebsiteBBB'; 

I have two sites: uat.myPageAAA and uat.myWebsiteBBB. Inside /var/www/uat/web/sites, I have the following folders: myWebsiteBBB and default.

So, what's the problem? When I execute: ./vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit.myWebsiteBBB.xml

This is the output I get:

--- SCAN RESULTS --- 1. Environment URL (DTT_BASE_URL): https://uat.myWebsiteBBB.com 2. Folder you chose to upload: sites/default 3. Final database: multisite 

Basically, when I run the tests for myWebsiteBBB, it does not load the myWebsiteBBB site data. Instead, it falls back to the default directory. Because of this, everything goes wrong when I execute my test script: /var/www/uat/run_multisite_tests.sh

#!/bin/bash # Ensure we run everything from the directory where this script is located SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)" cd "$SCRIPT_DIR" # Define base log directory LOG_BASE_DIR="$SCRIPT_DIR/logs" # Create the logs directory if it doesn't exist mkdir -p "$LOG_BASE_DIR" # Define static log files for this execution MYPAGEAAA_LOG="$LOG_BASE_DIR/uat_myPageAAA.log" MYWEBSITEBBB_LOG="$LOG_BASE_DIR/uat_myWebsiteBBB.log" echo "===================================================" echo "🚀 Starting tests for MyPageAAA..." echo "📄 Logging output to: logs/uat_myPageAAA.log" echo "===================================================" # Run PHPUnit and pipe the output to 'tee' to overwrite the log file ./vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit.myPageAAA.xml | tee "$MYPAGEAAA_LOG" MYPAGEAAA_RESULT=${PIPESTATUS[0]} echo "" echo "===================================================" echo "🚀 Starting tests for MyWebsiteBBB..." echo "📄 Logging output to: logs/uat_myWebsiteBBB.log" echo "===================================================" ./vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit.myWebsiteBBB.xml | tee "$MYWEBSITEBBB_LOG" MYWEBSITEBBB_RESULT=${PIPESTATUS[0]} echo "" echo "=================== SUMMARY =======================" if [ $MYPAGEAAA_RESULT -eq 0 ]; then echo "✅ MyPageAAA: SUCCESS" else echo "❌ MyPageAAA: FAILED (Check logs/uat_myPageAAA.log)" fi if [ $MYWEBSITEBBB_RESULT -eq 0 ]; then echo "✅ MyWebsiteBBB: SUCCESS" else echo "❌ MyWebsiteBBB: FAILED (Check logs/uat_myWebsiteBBB.log)" fi echo "===================================================" # If any test failed, return an error code for continuous integration systems if [ $MYPAGEAAA_RESULT -ne 0 ] || [ $MYWEBSITEBBB_RESULT -ne 0 ]; then exit 1 fi exit 0 

Has anyone run into this before? Why is PHPUnit ignoring my myWebsiteBBB environment variables and forcing the default site directory? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

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How do I override individuel Nodes with Canvas?

Could somebody help me and take a look at this question please?
I want to use a Canvas Content Template as default for a Content Type (e.g. "Projects"), BUT be able to override individual nodes.

Example:

  • Template has Title + Subtitle + Image
  • For one specific Project node, remove subtitle (or completely different layout)

What I've tried:

  1. Content Type → Manage Display → "Allow each content item to have its layout customized" is not a visible option
  2. Canvas enabled for View Mode
  3. Edit Node → looking for "Layout" tab / Canvas override checkbox → nothing visible

Questions:

  1. Where exactly does the "Override default template for this node only" checkbox from Issue #3567225 appear?
  2. Do I need to create Content Template first (/canvas/content-templates)?
  3. Missing permission or feature not in Canvas 1.0?
  4. Is there a Workaround like Custom Block per node or other solution?
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Time to tackle Drupal's deployment complexity once and for all?

Forgive this Drupal noob for being blunt, but maybe something good can come out from this seemingly naive question.

Drupal and the newly launched Drupal CMS are powerful and reasonably easy to setup, but they are rather complex to deploy from testing (edit: from a dedicated development environment) to production. They have always been that way, as if suffering from a chronic blind spot, that over time was taken for granted.

Drupal funding comes largely from companies providing (expensive) Drupal hosting services, which include testing (edit: various) environments and migration. In general we are all grateful to these companies. But the harder it is to host Drupal, the more customers these companies have. They may not be discouraging development towards ease of deployment, but they don't seem to incentivize it either. Forking on the other hand would be highly impractical due to a large and complex code base.

If the premise is correct, then I suggest someone within the Drupal community to propose an official goal and funding target, to finance the development of a comprehensive one-click automated deployment functionality with rollback, in both Drupal core and Drupal CMS. Something similar to the Drupal CMS local backup and restore functionality, but remote and more comprehensive.

Edit 1: typo

Edit 2: as noted by some comments, the module "workspaces" (included in core since Drupal 11) can migrate contents between multiple environments within a single instance

Edit 3: the requested cross-instance deployment feature is not provided by other CMS so it's probably unreasonable to request it specifically for Drupal

Edit 4: the official Drupal guide includes a chapter on manual code and content migration at https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/install-dev-making.html

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drupal cms error

drupal cms error

hello,

im a newbie and i have installed drupal cms, but every time im working on the site , after few changes it get stuck , and the website on localhost is not possibel to acces annymore.

Already happend 4 time.

anybody know what is wrong?

i will put printscreen from the error here.

Thx in advance!

https://preview.redd.it/s1p8noxg8gkg1.png?width=786&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ba68a2f801789faf538c8e036f8b435fcf9c34b

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The new content metrics module discussed yesterday

The new content metrics module discussed yesterday

Contributors, editors and other content maintainers of long-running Drupal sites should be able to easily see how their content has evolved over time. While analytics modules illustrate the consumption of our site content over time, we needed a tool to illustrate the creation of it.

To enable that, I've just published a new module called Content Metrics. It provides charts illustrating content activity, such as articles created per month over the past 12 months. It also has additional related charts (content type counts, and comments over time), and I'll add others soon.

My goal was to keep it very simple to start with, without loads of dependencies and without promising too much. It also needed to be helpful out-the-box, without requiring admins to spend ages setting it up.

Aren't there enough good modules like this already?

Before making this, I did a bunch of investigating of the current contrib modules, and I only decided to make this after confirming that there just isn't a simple, useful, well-maintained module that provided this sort of information in a a visual format (charts).

You're probably well aware of the many analytics modules: Statistics • Statistics Counter • Statistics Advanced • Statistics rolling period • Entity Metrics • Google Analytics • Page Analytics • AI Google Analytics • Visitors (Web Analytics) • Analytics

However they track site visitor data; they don't report on internal info.

There are also several modules that do report internal site info: Yet another statistics module • Statistics Pro • Metrics • Drupal Metrics • Prometheus Metrics • Users Metrics • Redirect Metrics • Cache Metrics • Server and Db metrics

However each of them had one or more of the following downsides: It didn't show helpful info about content over time, or it didn't show the data in charts, or it wasn't actively maintained, or it just took way too much time to set up. Most of them are great modules, but they're not what my team needs.

So if this is useful to your team or your clients, please give it a try and let me know how you'd like me to improve it; additional charts, exposed filters, different chart styles, etc.

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Drupal Views Exposed Filters causing SEO Issues

How do you deal with Views Exposed Filters and ajax links that cause SEO errors in tools like Semrush?

Or Search Console yelling at you for Views Exposed Filters with param links like /blog?combine=&tid=469&viewsreference%5Bcompressed%5D=eJxdkEEOgyAQRe8yaxdtutLLkLGMOOmABkcbY7x7IVpJuyDw570PCRtYVIRmA4xu9hQUmjCLVN that cause 404s or the dreaded pagination causing Alternate page with proper canonical tag on links like /blog?8f6666e1_page=27&921a62f2_page=9&aa16511d_page=17&page=12?

I have good experience with Drupal and Views but don't see any options to clean these issues up. Im about to output json and use some js script to provide better filtering options. I'd hate to have to hack views to get proper filters because it would feel too much like webflow + finsweet.

Any pros out there have a solution for this or did I Drupal myself into a corner?

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Node auto post on X, Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin ?

If someone has experienced on auto post on social network ? I see there is a social_post module but its stop updating since 2024, I want to create node with image field in Drupal1o, then auto post the image with content on X, Facebook, Linkedin, and maybe Instagram, please suggest if you know about this , Thank you.

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DrupalCon Chicago 2026 - Drupal In A Day materials?

I'm new to Drupal and unable to attend the upcoming DrupalCon, but I'd love to get the presentation materials for the Drupal In A Day presentation after it's over. Is that something that's done after the convention is over?

I mean, I recognize that the point is a hands-on experience, and to be fair, I have stumbled my way through setting up a couple of sites, but I'd love to have the official materials to fix my process so that I'm doing it "right" according to actual experts.
Either way, if those materials will be available, how can I get them or request them?

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