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Dripyard: The Next Generation of Drupal Themes for Production-Ready Sites
From the maintainer of Drupal's Olivero theme comes Dripyard - premium Canvas themes built on pure CSS, no base theme, and 50+ production-ready components. Here's why it's changing how we build Drupal sites.
Turn Your Drupal Site Into an MCP Server
Your Drupal site can become infrastructure that AI tools work against, not just a place where you use AI. Here's how to set it up in about 30 minutes.
Drupal's AI-Native Page Building: Canvas + AI Context + Canvas AI Working Together
Canvas provides the builder, AI Context provides the brain, Canvas AI provides the agent. Here's how they work together - with real examples from rebuilding my homepage and a complete cost breakdown.
When Drupal Makes Sense (And When It Doesn't)
With 400+ CMS options on the market, every platform claims to be 'the one'. Here's an honest assessment of where Drupal fits in the landscape - and where it doesn't.
Why Your CMS Choice Matters More Than Ever (And It's Not About Features)
When evaluating content management systems, most teams focus on features. Can it do personalisation? Does it have good media management? The real question is different: are you buying a tool or building a system?
Drupal Canvas: 5 Tips and Tricks
Canvas is evolving fast, but these five techniques - slots, WYSIWYG integration, patterns, code components, and global regions - separate production-ready implementations from experimental builds. Here's how to use them effectively.
The Spotify Effect: Building Audio-First Content Experiences in Drupal
How AI-powered audio generation in Drupal meets the cultural shift towards podcast-style content consumption, and why fighting this trend misses the point.
Total Cost of Ownership for Semantic Search
Enterprise search vendors like Coveo charge 100s of thousands over a 3 year period for semantic search capabilities you can build with open source tools for a tenth of the price. Here's the cost breakdown, control you're giving up, and why 95% of organisations are massively overpaying.
Building Semantic Search in Drupal with Milvus: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Transform your Drupal search from basic keyword matching to AI-powered semantic understanding. This beginner-friendly guide walks you through setting up Milvus vector database and the Drupal AI module to create intelligent search that understands meaning, not just words.
Hand Writing Code in an AI World
Why the deliberate practice of hand-writing code matters more than ever in an age of AI assistance.
5 AI Quick Wins for Drupal: Innovation Without the Risk
Enterprise organizations face a tension: demonstrate AI innovation leadership without betting on experimental vendors or creating technical debt. Here are five proven AI capabilities you can implement in weeks, building on your existing Drupal investment.
State of Drupal in the NZ ecosystem
In New Zealand, Drupal faces a reputation challenge. Large enterprises trust it, but decision-makers remember messy implementations. The solution? Opinionated starting points that prevent the architectural mistakes that created 'messy Drupal' in the first place.
Building with Drupal 11 Canvas: Creating a Custom Hero Component
Learn how to build production-ready components for Drupal 11 Canvas using Single Directory Components. Transform your site building workflow with visual editing and reusable components.
Complete Guide: Figma MCP + Cursor + Drupal 11 UI Patterns Workflow
Transform Figma designs into fully functional Drupal 11 Single Directory Components using Model Context Protocol and Cursor IDE. Learn how to automate your design-to-code workflow and maintain design-code parity.
Building Bulletproof Background Tasks: Drupal Queue Workers and Ultimate Cron
From AI content generation to data processing, discover how to build robust background task systems in Drupal using queue workers and Ultimate Cron. Real code, real solutions, real results.
Mastering Claude Code for Drupal Development: 5 tips
Discover the top 5 tips for maximizing Claude Code's potential in Drupal development. From context awareness to early exits, learn how to leverage AI-powered coding effectively for your Drupal projects.
5 Drupal Essential SEO Modules
5 essential Drupal SEO modules to help you align your content with Google.
Complete Guide: Setting Up Drupal on Digital Ocean
Full guide to deploying Drupal on a Digital Ocean droplet with a managed MySQL database, including server setup, security, SSL, and domain configuration.
Creating Immersive VR Video Experiences in Drupal CMS
Learn how to integrate immersive 360° VR video experiences into your Drupal CMS site using A-Frame.js. From field formatters to responsive design, discover the technical details of bringing virtual reality to your content.
Drupal CMS: The Starshot Has Landed - A Sneak Peak
Drupal CMS is here, born from the ambitious Starshot Initiative! Discover its out-of-the-box power, the new Experience Builder, AI magic, and what's next for this game-changing CMS.
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