Drupal
Layout Builders versus Content Management - are you making this mistake?
Glitzy websites are all the rage these days. Everybody seems to be looking for easy ways to create multimedia-rich pages with ease.
Assessment of May 8 Drupal Security update SA-CORE-2019-007
New versions of Drupal core dropped today, to fix a file handling issue.
After assessing the patches, statements, and risks associated with this update, we have decided this is an important update to apply, but not urgent for most of the sites we manage.
Ask Freelock: "Traditional hosts" vs "cloud providers"
A client asks about yet another hosting option:
The VPS-2000HA-S includes the following resources:
6GB RAM (burstable)
150GB SSD Disk space
5TB Monthly Bandwidth
4 free dedicated IP's
Release Policy
This page summarizes our options for rolling out regular updates. As a client on our Protection plan, you may choose among any of these options for notification, and release windows for deployment.
We will use your chosen policy when scheduling release of updates, and include the currently selected policy on our release notices.
For release of new functionality and/or bug fixes, if we have communicated with you otherwise, we may roll out with less notice or outside your window.
Website Security Check
Your organization has been around for a long time, and your website has been around for a long time... are you worried about expanded security threats?
We understand the anxiety that comes with website security.
Your website faces innumerable risks. Freelock offers a number of website protection services to protect you from these risks and create plans and backups so that you can focus on your business with peace of mind.
Drupalgeddon2: Should I worry about critical security updates?
No, you should not. You should let us worry about them, and go back to your business.
Seriously, we're getting questions from all kinds of people about whether this matters. I'm a bit surprised that there is any question about that. Would you be concerned if your top salesperson was selling for somebody else? If your cashiers were jotting down credit card numbers when they charged a card? If your office became a well-known spot for illicit drug or gun dealers? If your office had a bunch of scammers squatting and running a pyramid scheme? If your confidential client information could be revealed as easily as using a bic pen on an old Kryptonite lock?
We've seen some variation of every single one of those scenarios. And all of them are possible with a remote code execution flaw in a web application, like yesterday's Drupal security vulnerability.
And yet people still
Another Wednesday, another round of security updates
Drupal security updates generally come out on Wednesdays, to try to streamline everybody's time. WordPress security notices come out... well, whenever whichever feed you subscribe to bothers to announce something.
Freelock Interviewed on Drupal and WordPress Expertise
In September, Freelock was recognized as a leading web development company in Seattle by Clutch.
How do you keep a high bar of quality on dozens of sites every day?
DevOps is the union of development, operations, and quality assurance -- but it's really the other way around.
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.
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!