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DrupalCon News & Updates: Drupal Powering Digital Ecosystems: Showcase your case study at the DrupalCon Europe 2026 Success Stories and Innovation track
As we look ahead to DrupalCon Europe 2026 in Rotterdam this October, we invite organizations, agencies, and digital leaders to submit their stories to the Success Stories & Innovation track.
This track showcases how Drupal is used today to power far more than websites. Across industries, Drupal enables organizations to build digital platforms, integrate complex systems, automate workflows, and create scalable ecosystems that support real business needs. From AI-driven personalization to DevOps automation and composable architectures, we want to highlight real-world projects that demonstrate how Drupal drives innovation.
In today’s fast-moving digital landscape, organizations must continuously evolve to stay competitive. Digital transformation is no longer just about launching a new website — it’s about building connected systems, automating processes, and delivering consistent experiences across multiple channels. Drupal plays a key role in this transformation as a flexible, secure, and extensible open-source platform that adapts to complex enterprise environments.
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Why Drupal?
Drupal is not just a content management system. It is a...
https://events.drupal.org/rott
Jacob Rockowitz: Drupal (AI) Playground: Crawling with Recipes
Incorporating AI into my development workflowI've just begun exploring how to incorporate AI into my development workflow to tackle ongoing challenges for my client. Drupal's AI initiative is progressing rapidly with continuous updates and improvements. At DrupalCon Chicago, there will be numerous discussions about the future of AI in Drupal.At the same time, through various channels like the Talking Drupal podcast and Planet Drupal feeds, we are hearing about people achieving significant success with AI-driven development using coding agents such as Claude Code. There is understandable hesitation within the Drupal community about adopting AI. Additionally, there is a lot of buzz and hype around AI replacing traditional software development.Personally, I cut through the hype to find the clear truths about AI. I am specifically listening to what senior engineers like Steve Yegge, Kent Beck, and Martin Fowler say about the future of AI, software, and software development. I recently found "The Pragmatic Engineer" podcast, which, for me, is the best place to get genuine, honest, and tangible insights into the future of AI-driven development.Adapting and adopting AI-driven developmentMy personal conclusion is that, for better or worse, AI-driven development is something individuals, teams, companies, and communities need to adapt to and adopt. For me, the starting point is setting...
https://www.jrockowitz.com/blo
Undpaul.de: Drupal AI 1.3.0: Why This Update Matters for Editorial Teams, IT, and Compliance
The update brings new features, but above all greater maturity to the practical use of AI in Drupal. It strengthens governance, editorial workflows, and production operations.
https://www.undpaul.de/en/blog
The Drop Times: What Accessibility Audits Reveal About Drupal Websites
Accessibility has long been part of Drupal’s core philosophy, yet accessibility audits continue to uncover recurring issues across many Drupal websites. Findings from the DrupalFit Challenge Vienna Edition show that even professionally built Drupal projects can struggle with problems such as insufficient colour contrast, missing alternative text, and improper heading structure. As regulatory requirements expand and digital services become more essential, accessibility reviews are becoming increasingly important for Drupal teams working across government, education, healthcare, and enterprise platforms. The audit results offer practical insight into where development teams can strengthen accessibility practices across Drupal projects.
https://www.thedroptimes.com/6
Capellic: Developer Roundtable AI Edition
The developers at Capellic share how they're integrating AI tools like Junie and Rovo Dev into their daily Drupal work — not to replace expertise, but to eliminate repetitive tasks, reduce friction, and free up time for more creative and complex problem-solving.
https://capellic.com/node/266
Tag1 Insights: It's 106 Miles to DrupalCon and We Got a Full Tank of Gas: Tag1 Is Headed to Chicago
DrupalCon is coming back to Chicago, March 23 to 26, and Tag1 will be there as a Champion Plus sponsor with sessions, coffee, and a lot to talk about.
This year's conference coincides with Drupal's 25th anniversary, which feels like the right moment to take stock of where we've been and where the platform is headed. We've been building and contributing to Drupal since its earliest days, and the work the community is doing right now, particularly around AI integration, Workspaces, and modern developer tooling, is some of the most exciting we've seen.
We're bringing three sessions to DrupalCon Chicago this year, covering testing, enterprise content staging, and what happens when you point AI at a seriously complex migration.
Drupal Test Traits: Learn by Example
Moshe Weitzman | Tuesday, March 24 at 9:00 AM | Salon A-1
Moshe will kick off our session lineup with Drupal Test Traits (DTT), the open source testing framework he built that takes a fundamentally different approach to testing content-heavy Drupal sites. Rather than spinning up empty databases and populating them with mock data, DTT tests against your actual site content, so you're validating the things that actually matter to your editors and visitors. Expect practical examples drawn from Massachusetts' mass.gov testing suite.
Workspaces Is Revolutionizing Drupal Core
Fabian Franz & Peta Hoyes | Wednesday, March...
https://www.tag1.com/blog/drup
#! code: Drupal 11: Making Interactive Elements With HTMX
Drupal 11: Making Interactive Elements With HTMX HTMX is a JavaScript library that allows you to make ajax calls and create CSS transitions without writing any JavaScript code. It works by adding attributes to HTML elements, which it then uses to set up and perform ajax requests, swap elements, and a few other things.It was added to Drupal in version 11.3.0* and gives developers the ability to create interactive elements using render arrays and HTML attributes. The intent is to replace the entire ajax sub-system with one built around HTMX, and there is quite a lot of work ahead to accomplish this task.* Technically, HTMX has been in Drupal since 11.2.0, but only as an experimental library. Drupal 11.3.0 features the full HTMX library and a number of helper classes to make life easy.In this article we will look at how HTMX is integrated into Drupal, and what services exist to help you use it within the Drupal system. Since this article is quite long I have created a table of contents to assist in scrolling to the relevant sections. philipnorton42
Sun, 03/15/2026 - 19:01
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The Drop Times: Lovable AI and Drupal Canvas Workflow to Be Demonstrated at Drupal Camp Delhi
Drupal page development traditionally involves multiple hand-offs between designers, developers, and content teams, often extending implementation timelines. A session proposed for Drupal Camp Delhi 2026 by Naveen Prakash Duraisamy examines how AI-assisted design tools can shorten this process. The presentation focuses on combining Lovable AI with Drupal Canvas and Single Directory Components to transform natural language prompts into deployable Drupal components while maintaining governance and code ownership within Drupal projects.
https://www.thedroptimes.com/6
Pivale: Why Drupal Commerce
Drupal Commerce vs Shopify and WooCommerce: why Drupal’s flexibility, open source code and extensibility make it ideal for complex ecommerce.
https://www.pivale.co/resource
The Drop Times: Beyond the Commits: Join the Drupal Coffee Exchange at DrupalCon Chicago 2026
The Drupal Coffee Exchange will take place during DrupalCon Chicago 2026, continuing a community tradition that began at DrupalCon Seattle in 2019 and has since appeared at Drupal camps and conferences worldwide. The informal Birds of a Feather session invites attendees to bring a bag of whole-bean coffee from a local roaster and exchange it with someone from another region. Over time, the gathering has become known as a relaxed space where Drupal contributors share stories and build connections beyond code.
https://www.thedroptimes.com/6
Drupal AI Initiative: Announcing Drupal AI 1.3.0: Largest feature update ever!
Authors: Will Huggins, Jeremy Chinquist
Drupal AI 1.3.0 is now available, delivering the largest feature update since the module's initial release. This version focuses on three areas that organisations told us matter most:
Keeping AI safe and accountable
Making AI useful for content teams
Giving technical teams the visibility they need to operate AI in production with confidence
And because Drupal AI is open source, you stay in control of your models, your data, and your infrastructure.
AI Guardrails: stay in control of every AI interaction
Trust is the foundation of responsible AI adoption. Drupal AI 1.3.0 introduces AI Guardrails, configurable checks that run before or after any AI request.
Teams can define rules to control how AI interacts with their content and data. For example, they can block sensitive data from leaving their organisation, filter harmful responses, or enforce compliance policies. All of this can be configured without writing code.
Guardrails work across all AI operations in Drupal. This gives security and compliance teams a single place to oversee how AI is used across the site.
In practice, this means AI governance becomes part of the platform itself, rather than something teams must manage separately.
One-click AI for editors, right where they work
AI should meet editors in their workflow, not force them into a separate tool.
Drupal AI 1.3.0...
https://www.drupal.org/about/s
UI Suite Initiative website: Video series - #02 Display Builder config profiles feature walkthrough
Display Builder for Drupal: shaping the editing experience with Config ProfilesPart 2 of the Display Builder Beta video series by UI SuiteIn the first episode of the Display Builder Beta video series, Pierre introduced us to the fundamentals of the module, by demonstrating how to create and work with page layouts. In this second instalment, he is diving into one of Display Builder's most powerful features: Config Profiles.What are Config Profiles?Last time, when we created a Page Layout with Display Builder, we were prompted to pick a profile. Out of the box, only the “Default” profile has been available.Config Profiles are configuration entities — meaning they are fully editable, exportable, and deployable like any other Drupal config.
https://uisuite.net/video-seri
The Drop Times: Lessons from Building Europe’s Largest Public Sector Drupal Platform at DrupalCon Chicago 2026
A decade after the European Commission began consolidating hundreds of its websites on Drupal, the conversation around open source adoption has shifted from technology choice to institutional practice. In a session titled “Using Drupal Doesn’t Make You Open Source,” architect consultant Adam Nagy will reflect on how one of the world’s largest Drupal platforms moved from using open source software to contributing back to it. Scheduled at DrupalCon Chicago 2026, the talk examines the governance structures, organisational culture, and shared tooling that enabled collaboration across public-sector teams and turned internal development into reusable community contributions.
https://www.thedroptimes.com/6
Tag1 Insights: Building the Governance Layer: Tag1 Joins the Drupal AI Initiative
Take Away
Tag1 has joined the Drupal AI Initiative as a Certified Gold Partner and Maker. We’re starting by extending Workspaces, Drupal's enterprise content governance layer, so that AI agents operate under the same staging, review, and rollback framework as human editors. It’s the necessary foundation for everything that comes next.
I'm proud to share that Tag1 has joined the
Drupal AI Initiative as a Certified Gold Partner and Maker, committing dedicated engineering time to help shape how AI works inside Drupal. We've been building Drupal since day one, and we're excited to be part of its most consequential evolution in years. We plan to contribute across multiple areas of the initiative, but we’re starting by bringing governance to AI-driven changes because that's the necessary foundation for all of it.
The Governance Gap
AI tools that generate content and alter site layout and configuration are getting more capable by the day. But capability without governance is a problem, especially for organizations with compliance requirements, editorial review processes, and production sites that can't afford surprises.
You wouldn't give a new team member free rein to change your website on their first day. It doesn't matter how talented they are. The same logic applies to AI agents: they need a sandbox to...
https://www.tag1.com/blog/tag1
The Drop Times: Editoria11y 3.x to Receive First Public Tour at DrupalCamp NJ 2026
A forthcoming session at DrupalCamp NJ 2026 will offer the first public look at the 3.x rewrite of the accessibility module Editoria11y. Accessibility developer John Jameson explains how the project has evolved through collaboration with the Sa11y project, merging test suites and introducing new backend and frontend capabilities. The session will examine the technical changes behind the rewrite, the development of community-supported add-ons, and the broader roadmap for expanding the accessibility toolkit into a more comprehensive open-source governance suite.
https://www.thedroptimes.com/6
The Drop Times: Peter Wolanin to Present Session on Drupal Plugin API at DrupalCamp NJ 2026
Senior application architect Peter Wolanin will present a session on Drupal’s plugin system at DrupalCamp NJ 2026, explaining how the plugin API enables reusable and extensible functionality in Drupal projects. The talk will introduce how plugins are structured across Drupal core and configuration, along with examples showing how developers can identify and create them in their own code. Wolanin also shared what attendees can expect from the session and why understanding the plugin system remains an important skill for Drupal developers.
https://www.thedroptimes.com/6
