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The Drupal and open-source communities are mourning the passing of Alanna Burke, a longtime advocate, writer, and community leader known for her work in documentation, diversity initiatives, and developer advocacy. Burke contributed to organisations and community efforts including amazee.io, Drupal Diversity and Inclusion, DrupalCon North America, and Meta’s open-source AI documentation initiatives.

Discover how the Drupal AI Initiative is revolutionizing open-source marketing. Learn how 31 companies and a global team of specialists are scaling Drupal’s AI roadmap and driving enterprise adoption through radical collaboration.

13,980 active installs, 30+ Partner organizations, 25+ FTE committed. A look at what the Drupal AI Initiative is shipping right now and what comes next.

Nick Opris has developed a daily digest system that tracks issue activity, comments, and merge requests across selected Drupal AI Initiative projects. The system is designed to reduce the overhead of monitoring fragmented issue queues and review workflows by generating separate summaries for developers and non-technical stakeholders from the same contribution data. The project reflects growing experimentation within the Drupal ecosystem around AI-assisted coordination and reporting tools.

AI ate my work

I've been experimenting with using AI to build Drupal modules for the past few months. Two weeks ago, I released a module called the AI Schema.org JSON-LD module and wrote a blog post about it. The module essentially replaces the primary outcome of my Schema.org Blueprints module, which is to enhance SEO by providing high-quality Schema.org JSON-LD markup. The AI Schema.org JSON-LD module generates Schema.org JSON-LD by having contrib modules work together to call an AI provider with a simple prompt.

This simple module, which I built in four days, supersedes my work on the Schema.org Blueprints module, which I've been working on for four years. I could resent the fact that this new AI-powered module, created using AI, was replacing me and my work, but instead, it's just changing how I view the work I'm doing.

With AI, it's easier for me to explore new ideas and take on more ambitious tasks, while knowing that the code and modules I'm creating remain flexible and extendable by humans and machines. There's a fine line between feeling like AI is eating our work, replacing it, consuming it, or improving it. We should talk about it.

What does AI mean for me?

The most immediate thing I have to think about is how I took something I had previously built, saw how AI could replace it, and had to be open to recognizing the opportunity that AI could do things differently, better, and faster. Everyone needs to lean into that reality with AI: things can get done faster and with more possibilities.

It took me a while to realize that things had changed. I built a few very simple modules to understand how AI coding agents plan, document, build, test, and maintain code. After a few weeks, I began to see the...Read More

Ten Months That Changed Everything: An ECA Journey Jürgen Haas Tue 12 May 2026 - 15:00

This post tells the story of the ten months that took ECA from Dries Buytaert' private "1% of what it could be" feedback in June/July 2025 to a keynote at Drupal DevDays Athens in April 2026, by way of DriesNote moments in Vienna and Chicago. It opens a 9-post series exploring how UX research with Emma Horrell, Mark Dodgson and Lauri Timmanee, close collaboration with Shibin Das, and a focused build sprint produced in-context customization, a new React-based Workflow Modeler, integrated testing and replay, AI-powered documentation, and a vision for Drupal as an orchestration hub.

Managing metadata manually across hundreds of Drupal pages? Read this blog to learn about how the Bulk Metatag AI Generator module uses AI to automate SEO metadata creation at scale in Drupal.

Today we are talking about The Midwest Open Source Alliance, What they do, and How they support Drupal with guests April Sides & Tearyne Almendariz. We'll also cover Canvas Field Component as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/552

Topics

• Congratulations to April as the 2026 Aaron Winborn award!
• What is MOSA, and what gap in the Drupal ecosystem was it created to fill?
• How did MOSA get started, and who were the key people behind its formation?
• MOSA acts as a fiscal sponsor—what does that actually mean in practice for Drupal events and initiatives?
• What are some of the projects or camps MOSA currently supports?
• How does MOSA help sustain and grow regional Drupal communities over time?
• What does membership in MOSA look like, and who should consider getting involved?
• How does MOSA balance local community focus with broader, national or global Drupal efforts?
• What are the biggest challenges MOSA faces as a nonprofit supporting open source communities?
• How has MOSA evolved in recent years, and what's different today compared to when it launched?
• Looking ahead, what's the long-term vision for MOSA and its role in the Drupal ecosystem?

Resources

• MOSA Website
• MOSA Drupal Project
• Aaron Winborn
• Handbook
• Moline, Illinois

Guests

Tearyne Almendariz - nlbcworks.com NineLivesBlackCat April Sides - weekbeforenext

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to place Drupal-rendered fields into your Drupal Canvas templates? There's a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Canvas Field Component
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2026 by me! With some help from a couple of AI models
  • Versions available: 1.0.0, which works with Drupal 11.2 or newer
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation - a README, but is designed to be narrow in scope
  • Number of open issues: technically 5 open issues, but all marked as fixed
• Usage stats:
  • 41 sites
• Module features and usage
  • By design, when using Drupal Canvas to create templates for content types, the idea is to map field values to properties in the template's components
  • That is a new system, however, so site builders may find there are gaps in terms of available mappings for field types they need to use, or may want to draw on mature formatting options such the responsive image definitions that come with Drupal CMS
  • With the Canvas Field Component module installed, you'll find a new "Field display" option available in your Canvas component library. When you drag that into a Canvas template layout, you can choose which field from the content type you want to display, and the formatter to use
  • That, in turn, will expose all settings for the chosen formatter, as well as any third-party settings available, for example if using Date Augmenters with Smart Date fields
  • Those settings will be reflected in real-time inside the Canvas UI preview, and then on rendered content once the template changes are published
  • This module started as a simple idea, based on my own experience using other UI-based Drupal solutions for laying out content type templates, like Layout Builder or Acquia Site Studio. Over the years, I've come to appreciate the flexibility of being able to place Drupal-rendered fields into templates, so you can mix-and-match existing, robust formatting options with flexible ways of pulling field values into layouts that also include more bespoke elements. Or, just use this as a way to add more layout flexibility to Drupal's default, linear display controls. That's what I do on my own blog, where I use Layout Builder but don't have a single custom layout on the site. It's only used for enhancing the layout of structured content.
  • Full disclosure: I also used the idea for Canvas Field Component as the impetus to venture into vibe coding, inspired by the conversations happening in the AI Learners Club, which listeners will hear more about in an upcoming episode.

Learn more about the implementation that helped automatically verify transactions for AML.

Overall SummaryOur 35th UI Suite Monthly was one of the most packed sessions yet — a full hour of demos, strategy updates, and an urgent call to action for the community. We covered major progress on the Display Builder (now mid-beta with half its scope completed), a breakthrough demo of symmetric and asymmetric translation support, a roadmap for cleaning up and refocusing UI Patterns this summer, the exciting new ability to use SDC components as form elements, and two critical core proposals — the Design Token API and the Style API — that need community support before the May 15th freeze. We also gave a first look at our AI strategy for display building, with a live demo coming next month. In short: our ecosystem is maturing fast, and the next week is decisive.

The AI industry spent years presenting automation as a cheaper alternative to human labour. In 2026, organisations are discovering that the economics are more complicated. According to Boston Consulting Group, enterprises are expected to increase AI spending significantly this year, even as pressure grows to demonstrate measurable returns. At the same time, infrastructure costs tied to inference workloads, data centres, and continuously running AI systems continue to rise across the industry.

That shift helps explain why Drupal’s AI direction has increasingly focused on operational flexibility rather than “AI-first” positioning. The Drupal AI Initiative’s provider-agnostic architecture allows organisations to move between commercial and open-source models without rebuilding workflows, while Drupal’s structured content model reduces unnecessary token usage by providing cleaner contextual data to language models. Recent work around AI observability, governance, and usage tracking reflects a broader industry movement toward cost predictability, monitoring, and infrastructure control as AI systems transition from experimentation into production environments.

The conversation around AI adoption is therefore beginning to move away from novelty and toward sustainability. Questions around inference costs, infrastructure ownership, governance, auditability, and long-term operational flexibility are increasingly shaping enterprise decision-making. Across the broader ecosystem, the organisations likely to benefit most from AI adoption may not be those deploying the largest models, but those building systems capable of managing automation reliably, transparently, and economically over time.

Editorial note: Editor’s Pick | Vol. 4 | Issue 18 referenced reporting and analysis from a blog post by Michael Anello on beginner Drupal training programmes without sufficient attribution. The newsletter has since been updated with proper credit and source links. The Drop Times regrets the oversight and thanks Michael Anello for bringing the matter to our attention.

Now, let’s move on to the story highlights from the past week.

DISCOVER DRUPAL

• Mautic Content Provider Module Standardises Drupal–Mautic Content Workflows
• Dries Buytaert Introduces AI-Generated Rector Rules for Drupal Upgrades
• AI-Assisted Workflows Increase Demand for Creativity, Strategy, and Communication Skills
• Drupal Entity Webhook Module Enables Config-Driven Integrations
• AI Schema.org JSON-LD Module Introduces Prompt-Based Structured Data in Drupal
• Drupal 11 Expands Attribute-Based Hooks and Moves Away From .module Files
• Drupal Content Packages Module Introduces Git-Based Editorial Workflow

EVENT

• DrupalCamp Poland 2026 Rescheduled to 12 September in Wrocław
• Drupal AI Initiative Announces Webinar on Southwark Council’s AI PDF Workflow
• Drupal Meetup Frankfurt Set for 20 May at OpenSense Labs
• Minsait Hosts Drupal AI Event on Productivity, Automation, and Web Development
• Drupal Spotlight Meetup to Explore AI, Drupal CMS, ECA, and Media Workflows

DRUPAL COMMUNITY

• Drupal Community Health Team Urges Early Collaboration Before Conflict Reports

ORGANIZATION NEWS

• Acquia Expands Acquia Source and Introduces Acquia AI for Content Operations
• Mautic 7.1.0 “Canis Major” Focuses on Stability and Platform Improvements

Additional developments from across the Drupal ecosystem were published during the week. Readers can follow The Drop Times on LinkedIn, Twitter, Bluesky, and Facebook for ongoing updates. The publication is also active on Drupal Slack in the #thedroptimes channel.

Kazima Abbas
Sub-editor
The Drop Times

This is part five of a series of articles looking at HTMX in Drupal. If you are interested in reading more then there will be a list of related articles at the end of this article.

When I was thinking about ideas on demonstrating HTMX in Drupal I implemented things like infinite scroll, a tabbed interface, and a cascading select form. I basically recreating some things that I had done in non-Drupal HTMX inside a Drupal module.

I then had an idea to create something that I might actually find useful in my day to day work as a Drupal developer. This was some way of displaying nodes in different view modes.

In this article we will look at creating a simple form that allows users to enter a node ID and a view mode and see the node rendered in that view mode.

All of the code contained in this article can be found in the Drupal HTMX examples project on GitHub, but here we will go through what the code does and what actions it performs to generate content.   

Just like the other articles on HTMX, I'm going to start with the basics and define the route.

The Route

The route we need here just needs to point the path /htmx-examples/display-mode-preview at our form class.

drupal_htmx_examples_display_mode_preview_form: path: "/htmx-examples/display-mode-preview" defaults: _form: '\Drupal\drupal_htmx_examples\Form\DisplayModePreviewForm' _title: "HTMX Display Mode Preview Form" requirements: _permission: "access content"

There isn't anything unusual about this route, it's just a regular form route.

Let's create the form for this route.

The Form

The form class has a couple of injected dependencies, which are as follows:

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Read moreSome places do not merely offer a view. They give you direction. Athens did that to me. During Drupal Dev Days, I found myself looking at the Acropolis from a distance. The Parthenon was there, standing above the city, glowing with a presence that is difficult to describe if you have not seen it in person.From Athens to Rotterdam: Why Drupal AI Needs an "Athena" ReleaseAISaturday, May 9, 2026 - 16:16

A new open-source Drupal module aims to reduce the repeated custom development often required to connect Drupal-managed content with Mautic campaigns. By exposing Drupal nodes and Views directly inside Mautic workflows, the module provides a more standardised approach to content delivery and segment-based personalisation.

Nic Laflin and Matt Glaman sit down to discuss Drupal caching and Matt's new Leanpub book, Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/cafe016

Topics

• New Book on Caching
• Why Drupal Caching Shines
• Cache Tags Explained
• Cache Context Variations
• What Caching Really Is
• Invalidation Across the Stack
• NGINX Layer Pitfalls
• What Drupal Can Cache
• Writing Cacheable Render Arrays
• Debugging Metadata Issues
• Testing Caching Strategies
• Researching the Book
• Variation Cache Deep Dive
• Access Policy and Performance
• Permissions Caching and Disk IO
• Extension Discovery Tangent
• File Cache Explained
• Clearing File Cache in Tests
• Updating the Book Over Time
• Leanpub Pricing and Royalties
• Publishing Workflow and Tools
• Writing Process and Editing

Matt Glaman

Matt Glaman is an experienced software engineer and a prominent member of the Drupal community. With over a decade of experience in web development, he has developed a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He is the author of several books, including "Drupal 8 Development Cookbook" and "Drupal 10 Development Cookbook," which provide a comprehensive guide to building and customizing Drupal sites. And recently, the book Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers.

Nic Laflin

Nic Laflin is an accomplished Drupal architect and the founder of nLightened Development LLC, a web development and design firm established in 2008 that leverages highly extensible CMS frameworks to solve complex business challenges. They've been working with Drupal since late 2008, delivering creative solutions for a diverse roster of clients—from government agencies and e-commerce platforms to higher-education institutions and HIPAA-compliant medical services. Recently, Nic has focused on Native Web Components for platform-agnostic design, and has deep experience integrating AWS and building mobile application back ends. A recognized Drupal guru, Nic speaks regularly at regional Drupal camps and co-hosts the Talking Drupal podcast, where they share best practices and innovations with the community. Outside of technology, Nic enjoys building with LEGO, experimenting in the kitchen, and designing home automation projects. You can learn more at www.nlightened.net.

Resources

Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers https://mglaman.dev/blog/leveraging-list-cache-tag-entity-types If you're using a reverse proxy then disable the internal page cache https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3414825

Guests

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan

Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman

Drupal Commerce powers live auctions involving thousands of concurrent users, serves catalogues with millions of products, and presents rich product pages with hundreds of attributes and variations. And it does so with speed and reliability. In fact, it was architected to manage high volume and high complexity.

So why does your Drupal Commerce site feel so slow? Why does it feel like you’re constantly fighting bottlenecks and performance problems?

It’s not the platform. It’s something else.

In this webinar, Ryan Szrama and Tom Ashe will cover the most common culprits behind slow Drupal Commerce sites and how you can start fixing them.

Whether you're troubleshooting a slow site yourself or managing a team that is, you'll walk away with a practical checklist to investigate and a process for diagnosing your performance issues.

Join us on Tuesday, June 9th, at 10:30 AM ET.

Register for the webinar.
 

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As you browse websites, you may often think: “I’d like to save this for later,” “I like this person,” or “this post crosses the line.” The ability to flag a page, user, or post can be easily set up on a Drupal site thanks to the Flag module. 

The Enterprise Drupal Summit Europe 2026 will take place on 28 September 2026 in the SS Rotterdam.

We are now accepting session proposals.

Focus of the summit

The program focuses on Drupal in enterprise contexts, with emphasis on:

• Large-scale Drupal architectures
• Digital experience platforms built on Drupal
• AI use in enterprise content and delivery workflows
• Composable and API-driven architectures
• Governance, security, and compliance in regulated environments
• Operating Drupal at scale in complex organizations

The event is aimed at practitioners and decision-makers working on enterprise digital platforms.

What we are looking for

We are prioritizing submissions that are based on real implementations.

Relevant topics include:

• Case studies from enterprise or public sector deployments
• Architecture decisions in complex Drupal systems
• AI integration in content management or delivery
• Multi-site and multi-brand Drupal setups
• Sessions should be grounded in practical experience rather than product positioning.

Format

Accepted formats include:

• 20 minute talks (MAX)
• Case study presentations (focus on the business side)
• Architecture or strategy sessions

Selection criteria

Proposals will be evaluated on:

• Relevance to enterprise Drupal use cases
• Clarity of problem and solution
• Evidence of real-world implementation
• Transferable lessons for other enterprise organizations
• Technical or organizational depth

Submit a proposal

Submissions are open via Pretalx.

Looking forward to seeing you there!
 

Stability & Innovation: Web Acceleration with Drupal Core and Drupal CMS - session recording

I recently stood before a room of fellow builders at Drupal Developer Days Athens 2026 and asked a question: "How many of you use Drupal distributions?" Lots of hands shot up across the room. But when I followed up with, "And how many of you are actually happy with them?" the room went quiet, only a couple hands remained in the air. Distributions were our solution for long to make starting easier with Drupal, so this was sad.

Gábor Hojtsy Thu, 05/07/2026 - 13:35

Article by: Aidan Foster, Foster Interactive

The three human skills that turn AI into a multiplier.

Creativity, strategic thinking, and articulation are the three skills that decide whether AI makes you better or just faster.

• Strategic thinking comes from experience. There's no shortcut.
• Creativity can be learned, but it's more like going to the gym than reading a book. You build it through reps.
• Articulation lets you craft quality prompts and specs for AI, and it's the most trainable of the three. But it only matters when there's something worth articulating. The value lives in the other two.

What Everyone Is Getting Wrong

The AI discourse has one dominant message: automate faster, cut the grunt work, reduce headcount, ship more.

Most leaders are responding by getting better at execution. Better prompts. Faster workflows. More output per person.

Execution still matters. It's just not where the constraint is anymore. The leaders who pull ahead in the next three years won't be the ones who automated the most; they'll be the ones who understood where the real constraint moved.

The Bottleneck Moved

Think back to five years ago. A new landing page meant a brief, a copywriter, a designer, a developer, a round of revisions, and three weeks of calendar time. A campaign asset required coordinating four people across two time zones for something that might run for six days before you killed it.

That friction was real. Teams were sized around it. Agencies were built on it. Budgets accounted for it. That friction is gone.

A capable team can now produce a landing page in hours. Drafts, variants, and structured content at a pace that would have required six people two years ago. The execution ceiling collapsed.

The bottleneck didn't disappear. It moved upstream, to the quality of thinking that goes in before AI touches anything.

Strategic clarity. Creative direction. Precise articulation of what you actually want.

That's where the value lives now. That's where most teams are dangerously underprepared.

Strategic Thinking

A CMO walks into a strategy review and knows something is wrong. They've seen this pattern fail before, in a different market with a different product. They remember exactly how it ended.

That's not intuition in the mystical sense. It's pattern recognition built through immersion. You watch your confident calls go wrong, you figure out why, you adjust.

Strategic thinking requires experiencing consequences. You have to have been wrong, and had something depend on you being right.

Researchers studying scientists at the frontier of human knowledge found the same principle. The best of them use cultivated judgment to ask better questions, to know where to go next. AI needs to be pointed. It executes brilliantly within a defined frame. The frame has to come from somewhere.

Our sense for aesthetics, meaning and embodiment give us a vital advantage over our technological creations.

Why Human Intuition Is Still Science's Greatest Tool In The Age Of AI - Noema Magazine, 2026

Creativity

Most people believe creativity is an innate trait. Either you have it or you don't. That's wrong.

86% more ideas after 3 months of training. The untrained control group barely changed.

Creativity is a muscle. It responds to reps, to practice, to deliberate exposure to new inputs. A controlled study at Radboud University found that students who went through structured creativity training nearly doubled their ideation output in under a year. The untrained group stayed completely flat. (PLOS ONE, 2020)

You cannot read your way to it. You have to do the reps.

Research across Nobel laureates and major creative contributors identified two distinct types of creativity with two distinct peak ages. Conceptual innovators - the ones who execute one brilliant overarching idea - tend to peak young. Experimental innovators - the ones who synthesize across years of accumulated experience and observation - peak in their 50s. (Galenson and Weinberg, via Big Think)

The kind of creativity that matters most in marketing is the experimental kind. The kind that gets better the more you've seen.

The senior strategist who's been in the game 15 years isn't past their creative peak. The research says they may not have hit it yet.

Articulation

Articulation gets your thinking and creativity out of your head and into a form AI can use.

A VP with sharp strategic instincts and genuine creative range can still get generic output from AI if they can't extract what's in their head and structure it precisely.

Imprecise input produces generic output. Always.

The model doesn't know what your brand sounds like. It doesn't know who your buyers are, what language they use, or what keeps them up at night. It doesn't know what you've learned over three years about what actually converts.

All of that has to come from you, structured in a way AI can use. Articulation responds to deliberate practice faster than the other two. Most people never treat it as something worth developing. (Canadian Marketing Association AI Playbook, 2025)

Experience Is the Advantage If You Use It Correctly

The skills AI cannot replicate are the ones that take years to build. But knowing that doesn't help unless you act on it. Three things worth doing now:

Audit your process assumptions, not your expertise. The judgment you've built is the asset. The habits formed around the old production bottleneck are what need to change.

Treat articulation as a skill to develop deliberately. Document what you know about your buyers, your brand, your market. Structure it. That structured knowledge is what separates useful AI output from generic noise.

Do the creative reps. Consistent exposure to new inputs and new problems. New disciplines.

Give yourself and your team time to be creative. Whiteboard ideas as a group. Collect interesting work and express what specifically about it grabbed your attention.

Skip the reps and your creative edge fades.

Leaders who invest in all three first will pull ahead. The advantage compounds.

Where does your team sit?

Most teams I talk to are strong on execution. The upstream work - the strategic clarity, the creative direction, the structured articulation of what makes them different - is where the gap is.

That gap is also where the opportunity is.

Drop a comment. I'd like to hear how others are thinking through this.

Sources: Noema Magazine (2026), Radboud University / PLOS ONE (2020), Galenson and Weinberg / De Economist (via Big Think), Canadian Marketing Association AI Playbook (2025)