Sitebuilding

Since its launch in January 2025, Drupal CMS has been revolutionizing the way we build and manage websites through its innovative AI Agents built on a freeing abstraction layer allowing you to control your data and providers. Come and explore how AI is reshaping the Drupal ecosystem, making complex functionalities accessible to users of all technical levels, and setting new standards for intelligent, user-friendly site building.

The Protected Content module started in 2019. After 6 years of development (and as far as I know more than 500 thousands of encrypted contents), many things have evolved. In this conversation I would like to demonstrate the latest functionalities, and focus mainly on the stuff that was not yet available during Ghent (2022).

Tailwind CSS and Alpine Js are very useful when it comes to Single Directory Components in Drupal. With the use of Storybook module in Drupal, frontend guys can start development and testing of Design much earlier in isolation than when the Drupal structure is ready. My company is also involved in heavy development of a contributed theme named Tailpine which makes it easier to work with these technologies.

Drupal has many tools for rich content editing, starting from default CKEditor, which can be extended with plugins, the entire Paragraphs ecosystem, Layout Builder, and its extensions.

Decoupled Drupal has moved beyond experimentation, it’s delivering real-world performance, scalability, and flexibility beyond traditional architectures. This session dives into the latest decoupled projects shaping the future of Drupal:

Drupalistas know the issue: form and content aren’t always as clearly separated as they should be. Blocks, for example, are configuration, but their content isn’t, which makes rolling out new features tricky. Views headers and their translations are also configuration, meaning they can’t be easily edited by editors, leading to frustration. Slots solves these challenges, giving editors and marketers full control over their website content.

For every new project, there are certain tasks we have to complete over and over again. We install the same modules, because we are used to having them, we configure features in a consistent way, implementing best practices or the optimal approaches that we know work well. Until January 15, 2025, these repetitive tasks were delegated to distributions or profiles.

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Thanks to site building, Drupal was already a low-code platform before low-code was a thing. Modeling the business requirements by assembling sharable plugins in config entities, from the admin UI, is making Drupal the solution we have fallen in love with.

Organising events should be about the event itself, not struggling with the website. The Drupal Events Platform Module gives you a fully functional event management system, right out of the box, so you can focus on what matters more. Built to be useful as-is while offering room to grow and customise, this module handles scheduling, registrations, and more with Drupal’s flexibility at its core. You can use it with vanilla Drupal 10 or 11, Drupal CMS or your own build.