Drupal 8 | Security, Insights, and Results for your Drupal or WordPress Website

🕑Jun 07, 2017 🖋John Locke 💬2

Fixing Drupal 8.3 upgrade issues - TwigExtension, Layouts, and Tweaks

Lots of stuff has been changing in Drupal 8 recently. In 8.3.0, a new experimental "layout discovery" module was added to core, which conflicted with the contrib "layout plugin" module.

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🕑Jun 05, 2017 🖋John Locke 💬0

Added D8 Rules support to Matrix API

As of today, the Drupal Matrix API module now supports sending messages to a room via Rules. Now you can automatically configure notifications to Matrix rooms without touching any code!

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Appliance Standards Awareness Project - ASAP

Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP) organizes and leads a broad-based coalition effort that works to advance, win and defend new appliance, equipment and lighting standards which deliver large energy and water savings, monetary savings and e

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🕑Apr 06, 2017 🖋John Locke 💬17

Drupal grows up, loses its innocence

Extreme irony: the person most responsible for making Drupal a mature, stable, long-term platform has been ejected from a leadership role for reasons that are not entirely clear. As a result, the Drupal community itself is going through a painful crisis.

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Published on Thu, 02/23/2017 - 14:10

Part 3: Metrics to success and selecting a vendor

When thinking about ways to measure your website’s effectiveness, you may also want to think about the metrics you use to gauge the success of the website in accomplishing your business goals. How else do you measure success?

🕑Feb 09, 2017 🖋John Locke 💬10

Handle 40x as much traffic -- Switch to Drupal 8 [Update: ok, not so much]

[Update: It turns out the Drupal 7 site we tested had page caching disabled.

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Published on Fri, 02/03/2017 - 15:11

Ways to measure your website’s effectiveness

We've worked with many clients over the years, who all have very specific website development needs. While some clients may share common goals, each may approach those business goals in different ways. But, time and time again, we usually start by asking a client in what ways are they measuring their website's effectiveness. In this 4 part series, I'll discuss identifying purpose and overcoming obstacles, complaints of current site capabilities and establishing budget, metrics to success and selecting a vendor, then finally risk tolerance and disaster recovery planning.

🕑Dec 22, 2016 🖋John Locke 💬20

Drupal 8 Configuration Management in the real world - workflow and gotchas

Panacea, or disaster? Drupal 8 Configuration Management was supposed to solve all our woes when it came to dealing with deploying configuration. In many ways it's a vast improvement, but in some ways it has almost made matters worse.

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eCommerce, Drupal Commerce, SaaS, Symfony, PCI compliance, mobile-responsiveness

🕑Nov 08, 2016 🖋John Locke 💬3

Ask Freelock: What e-commerce platform would you recommend?

Shan asks,

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WordPress, Drupal, web development, CMS comparison, website management, design themes

🕑Oct 27, 2016 🖋John Locke 💬10

Drupal vs WordPress: Why there are no objective comparisons

WordPress versus Drupal. Republican versus Democrat. Two debates where the differences seem so broad, people can't even seem to agree upon fundamental facts. Why? Why is it so hard to find an objective, clear comparison of WordPress and Drupal? I've had several people ask this.

Sustainable/Open Business

🕑Sep 05, 2016 🖋John Locke 💬2

D8 Development: Console, Menus, and Entity load/save basics

I learn best when I have a problem to solve, and with one of our D8 upgrade projects, we had a mess to clean up in the menu system.

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🕑Aug 04, 2016 🖋John Locke 💬0

Fixing broken URL Aliases on a Drupal 6 -> Drupal 8 migration

So there are definite "gotchas" to migrating content from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8, when you take away the assumption that the ids throughout the system will remain the same.

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