Drupal Development

AMP for Drupal is a really powerful module, that can give your Drupal-powered website an impressive website traffic boost. But it will only work if there are no AMP-related issues - like Custom Javascript error from the Google Analytics module.  I have been using Drupal AMP since 2016 or 2017 but stopped using it after upgrading my Drupal version from 7 to 9, as there were some bugs with the Drupal AMP module - it just didn't work.   At the end of 2022, I decided to fix it and get AMP back…

As this was already the second time i faced the "Unable to install bootstrap, bootstrap.settings already exists in active configuration." problem i decided to share a quick and simple solution. Background: I have faced this error when performing the Drupal 7 upgrade to the Drupal 9 version and trying to enable the bootstrap theme.  solution: in PHPMyAdmin open the database your Drupal site is running, in the Search tab enter "bootstrap" Make sure you select all under tables and click the go…

In this article, I will keep notes on how I upgraded the multilingual Drupal 7 site to a multilingual Drupal 9 site. Turns out I had originally built this website on Drupal 7 more than 10 years ago and it already felt that the exciting website's look and feel is a bit outdated and we wanted to get a fresh look. I thought it wouldn't do any harm upgrading the database too. As I have already done a few successful upgrades in the past and as the website was not very complicated I didn't spend a…

Just recently I migrated my blog from Drupal 7 to the Drupal 9 platform, and this time I decided to stick with what I get, instead of building it all from scratch. I really like the default experimental theme Drupal Olivero, but of course, there are a few things I would love to fine-tune.  Instead of building a theme from scratch I decided to apply a few customizations for the stylesheet, and here is how (this is not recommended as when upgrading your Drupal theme you will need to patch it…

Recently I migrated my personal blog (the one you are currently reading) from Drupal 7 - to Drupal 9. The migration process actually still is in process, as I faced a few issues with the site, like lost coordinates with gmap module, some lost pictures here and there, etc. For the contact form, I decided to re-create it using the webform module as I don't like the new default contact form (or I'm just too used to the webform).  How To Add CAPTCHA Protection to Drupal 8 Webform Soon I started…

The blog you are currently reading now is more than 7 years old. I launched it back in October 2013 on the Drupal 7 platform. During the years blog has expanded a lot and now is heldong a few thousand articles - zillions of photographs, more than 700 articles with geo location information and so on.  The more the blog grew, the less I wanted to do any upgrades between Drupal versions, but then come the end of June 2021 and I just did it. The past couple of days and hours I've been spending…

Today working on my favorite website - optionsbrew.com, for a moment I faced a small issue - how to display block (s) on the default taxonomy/term page. I remember I was doing such tricks back in 2012 or 2013 and was wondering does it still applies in 2021, turns out -  it does! Here is the solution: on the Configure block page, under the Pages tab, enter /taxonomy/term/* and save Configuring Drupal 8 block Here is how our taxonomy term page looked before:   Drupal 8 default taxonomy…

Recently working on my latest Drupal l9 project - BalticInvestors.com I faced a strange issue - after enabling the core default contact form, it seemed that data is not stored anywhere after actually filling out and submitting the webform. Turns out there is a little helper module, which solves it - Contact Storage Contact Storage module will provide storage for Contact messages which are fully-fledged entities in Drupal 8 and Drupal 9. This plus core contact module aims to provide…

Recently I launched a new Drupal 8 website and was surprised by a spam amount we got via website's contact form (built with Webform module).  As the website was new, I was manually blocking each spammers IP, but the amount got larger and larger, to avoid that, I decided to install Captcha module, just like in the case with Drupal 7, see: Adding CAPTCHA to Drupal 7 Webform A CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test most often placed within web forms to determine whether the user is human. The…

When building a new Drupal website I prefer working with a Bootstrap theme and apply a subtheme  Just like in the case with Drupal 7, theming a subtheme based on Bootstrap is super simple - in a few words - download and enable a Drupal 8 bootstrap theme, then in the Drupal themes folder create a new theme folder and make a custom info.yml file here is a live example from OptionsBrew.com theme in the themes folder, create a new folder -> optionbrew in the optionbrew folder create a new…