Drupal CMS News Digest
developments tricks, articles and reviews from Drupal specialists
Drupal blog: AI in Drupal CMS 2.0: Practical tools you can use from day one
Drupal CMS 2.0 marks an important step forward in how AI is integrated into Drupal. This release does not treat AI as a bolt-on. AI is central to the tool. It focuses on practical capabilities that help marketers and site builders work faster, stay consistent, and reduce repetitive effort.
If you are evaluating Drupal CMS 2.0, here is an overview of the AI features that ship with this release and how they are intended to be used.
Built-in AI providers, ready out of the box
Drupal CMS 2.0 includes built-in support for AI providers without requiring complex setup just to get started. Out of the box, the CMS supports the amazee.ai Private AI Provider, OpenAI and Anthropic as AI providers through a curated recipe. amazee provides you with free tokens without having to sign up for an account. You’ll need your own account set up to use OpenAI and Anthropic.
This means you can explore AI functionality immediately, without first hunting through the project browser or wiring everything together yourself. For teams that want to experiment, evaluate, or prototype, this significantly lowers the barrier to entry.
A smarter admin chatbot for site building
One of the most visible AI features in Drupal CMS 2.0 is the admin chatbot, now styled to align with the broader Canvas AI experience.
This chatbot is designed to assist with common site-building tasks, including:
Creating content types...
https://www.drupal.org/blog/ai
Tag1 Insights: Contributing to Drupal's Future At Drupal Pivot
Last week I flew to Belgium for the Drupal Pivot, an unconference for agency leaders. Over sixty of us gathered in Ghent for two days of raw conversation about where Drupal needs to go. No polished presentations or vendor pitches. Just business owners trying to figure out what happens next.
The event operated on Chatham House Rules, which means I can share what I learned but not attribute specific ideas to specific people. What follows is my synthesis of themes that emerged, filtered through my own perspective. Other attendees will have their own takeaways.
Attendees of the first Drupal Pivot event in Ghent, BE. Photo Credit: Joris Vercammen (flickr)
The Business Model Problem
The most intense discussions centered on how AI is challenging traditional agency economics. Some clients are expecting lower prices because "AI makes everything cheaper," even when actual costs tell a different story. Developers using AI should be able to build complex Drupal sites dramatically faster, but advanced models burn through expensive tokens quickly, and quality still requires senior-level review. The math doesn't simplify the way some assume it will.
Nobody has solved this yet. The most honest framing I heard was: treat clients as partners in figuring it out, because we're all learning what AI actually costs in practice. Various experiments are underway with value-based pricing...
https://www.tag1.com/blog/cont
UI Suite Initiative website: UI Suite Monthly #33 - Ushering in the Era of AI-Powered Design Systems
Overall SummaryOur February 2026 UI Suite monthly meeting marked a pivotal moment in Drupal's evolution as a design system CMS. We gathered to celebrate significant milestones across our entire module ecosystem. We released Display Builder beta 1, celebrated UI Patterns 2.0's first birthday, witnessed explosive growth in UI Icons adoption (2.5x increase in terms of installations!), and unveiled our most ambitious initiative yet: integrating AI agents into our design system workflow. This meeting wasn't just about progress reports—it was about reimagining how we build, maintain, and evolve design systems in the age of artificial intelligence.
https://uisuite.net/ui-suite-m
drunomics: Drupal4Gov EU 2026: How Drupal Powers European Institutions and National Governments
Drupal4Gov EU 2026: How Drupal Powers European Institutions and National Governments
wolfgang.ziegler
Thu, 5 Feb 2026 - 16:37
https://drunomics.com/en/blog/
The Drop Times: Drupal service container deep dive (Part 3): service collectors
In the third part of his deep dive, Luca Lusso explores how Drupal developers can use service collectors and AutowireIterator to group, inject, and optimize services efficiently. This guide continues the practical exploration of Drupal's powerful service container
https://www.thedroptimes.com/6
Droptica: AI Automators in Drupal. How to Orchestrate Multi-Step AI Workflows?
AI Automators transforms complex AI workflows from code to configuration. This case study reveals how BetterRegulation built production-grade AI workflows processing 200+ documents monthly with 95%+ accuracy – using multi-step chains, background queues, and admin-managed prompts. No custom integration code required.
https://www.droptica.com/blog/
Drupalize.Me: Using Composer Path Repositories to Handle Module Dependencies During Development
Using Composer Path Repositories to Handle Module Dependencies During Development Sometimes working on a Drupal contributed module requires making changes to the module’s composer.json so that you can update a dependency. This blog post looks at how to accomplish that in a local development environment. joe
Thu, 02/05/2026 - 00:09
https://drupalize.me/blog/usin
Tag1 Insights: Using AI to Move a 10-Year-Old Drupal Core Issue Forward
Take Away At Tag1, we believe in proving AI within our own work before recommending it to clients. This post is part of our AI Applied content series, where team members share real stories of how they're using Artificial Intelligence and the insights and lessons they learn along the way. Here, Charles Tanton (Software Engineer) explores how AI supported his improvements to the Optional Field Widget Ordering issue in Drupal core by accelerating progress on a long-stalled 10-year old problem.
Project Summary
This project focused on using AI to help resolve a long-standing Drupal core issue: Allow multiple field widgets to not use tabledrag (#2264739). The goal was simple but impactful: make it possible to disable drag-and-drop ordering for specific multi-value field widgets, instead of forcing all of them to be orderable. For years, the only practical option was a brittle patch that touched many core files and often broke on core updates, creating recurring maintenance work that nobody enjoyed. By pushing this core fix forward with AI as a coding partner, the aim is to remove that maintenance burden for good and give site builders more control over the form UX.
The Challenge
The core problem was that Drupal automatically renders multi-value fields in a table with tabledrag behavior, even when...
https://www.tag1.com/blog/movi
Très Bien Blog: The Algorithmic Bias Against Drupal Community Values
The Algorithmic Bias Against Drupal Community Values I don't usually fail at making my life easier, but hey, it's a whole new world lately. To try my hand at LLM during my trial of AI-assisted coding, I wanted to see if I could customize an LLM for a specific task: assigning user credit on Drupal Core issues. Depending on the complexity, activity, and number of contributors involved it can take me anywhere between 30 seconds and 30 minutes to assign credit when I commit an issue to Drupal Core. Maybe I could automate some of it? theodore
February 4, 2026
https://tresbien.tech/blog/alg
Centarro: Any Drupal Commerce Site Can Have a B2B Portal
Drupal Commerce lets you serve both retail customers and business buyers from a single installation. Same products. Shared checkout flow. Same user experience—just adapted to the relationship. Different users can see different prices, payment options, and catalogs.You don’t need a separate platform. You don’t need a different domain. You don’t need another way to manage content. Drupal Commerce already has the tools to support both B2C and B2B on the same website, using the same codebase, delivering a unified experience to all of your customers.Even better, you can build a B2B portal in Drupal without any code. The capabilities are already there in existing features and modules.On February 26th, I’ll show you how to do it. We’ll walk through building a B2B purchasing portal using Commerce Kickstart as a base. Sign up now.
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https://www.centarro.io/blog/a
Gbyte blog: Mail Composer: Sending multilingual HTML emails with Drupal
A new solution to Drupal's messy mailing approachDrupal core's mail module has been a mess for a long time and has seemingly not kept up with the modernization of the rest of the stack. Using the hook system to send emails feels archaic; therefore, a while ago, we started developing a module that:Allows for defining emails in code via a clean and powerful (chaining) object-oriented interfaceSupports sending HTML emails without any fussOptionally allows for defining (HTML) emails as Twig templatesAllows for translating said emails by simply adding more Twig templates in different languages (multilingual capabilities)Integrates with Drupal's default framework for email manipulation, which handles the transporting and formatting of outgoing emailsCan be used as the backend for bespoke UI-driven mailing solutionsWe have been using and improving Mail Composer and would love for that work to be reused and further built upon.Let's talk codeJust sending an inline email... is as simple as:/** @var \Drupal\mail_composer\Manager $manager */
$manager = \Drupal::service('mail_composer.manager');
$manager
->compose()
->setFrom('foobar@foo.bar')
->setTo('foo@bar.bar')
->setSubject('Test subject')
->setBody(['This is the body of the email.'])
->send();Neat, isn't it?
https://gbyte.dev/blog/mail-co
1xINTERNET blog: An international upbringing that quietly set the stage for the future
A close look at Charles Andrew Revkin: how an international upbringing quietly shaped a digital leader at UICC and his impact on global cancer initiatives.
https://www.1xinternet.com/en/
mark.ie: Drupal CSS is broken when Aggregation is turned on
Drupal CSS is broken when Aggregation is turned on Here's some tips for debugging broken CSS in Drupal. markconroy
4th Feb 2026
https://mark.ie/blog/drupal-cs
Dripyard Premium Drupal Themes: Meridian, the Latest Dripyard Theme
Meet Meridian, the newest Dripyard theme. We’re really excited about this release, as many hours went into Meridian along with updates to our other themes.FlexibilityMy favorite “feature” of Dripyard themes is flexibility. We market each theme toward a specific vertical, but in practice they are highly versatile. You can easily change the look and feel of an entire site by adjusting color schemes, border radiuses, and imagery.Pictures are worth a thousand words, so we built our site to showcase multiple demos.
https://dripyard.com/blog/meri
Drupal blog: Inside Drupal CMS 2.0: Q&A with Product Owner Pam Barone
Drupal CMS 2.0 launched January 28. We asked Pam Barone—CTO of Technocrat and Product Owner of Drupal CMS—to talk about what's new and what she's most excited for people to try.
What makes Drupal CMS 2.0 different from version 1.0?
Drupal CMS 1.0 was really a proof of concept, to show that we could create a version of Drupal that bundled all of the best practices that many sites were using, and that the community would come together to make it happen in a short amount of time. We did prove the concept, but the 1.0 release did not represent any major innovations, because we were mostly just packaging functionality and tools that we already had and were familiar with. That is not to downplay the accomplishment at all, because it was a huge leap forward for the project, and it provided the foundation for the next steps.
With 2.0, we are introducing two big new concepts: Drupal Canvas and site templates. These represent another huge leap for the project, each in different ways, as we continue with the strategy to empower marketers to create exceptional digital experiences without relying on developers.
What are you personally most excited about for people to try in 2.0?
Drupal Canvas! I am so excited about Canvas and can’t wait to get it into the hands of our end users. There were times during the development of 2.0 when I was working in the Canvas editor and I thought, ‘Wow, I’m...
https://www.drupal.org/blog/in
UI Suite Initiative website: Announcement - Publication of Display Builder beta 2 and a new video
New: Video Tutorial & OverviewA new video has been released as part of the Display Builder series: Display Builder: Installation and OverviewWhat it covers:
https://uisuite.net/announceme
