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How to Setup Encrypt Module for Drupal 8

Getting started with encrypting data at rest within the Drupal 8 database. This post covers how to setup the Encrypt module. Read More

Drupal 8 Content Entity Bundles – Part 4: Practical Content Entity with Bundles

Part 4 in my series on Content Entities with Bundles, time to take these Entities to the next level! Read More

Drupal 8 Content Entity Bundles – Part 3: Simple Content Entity with Bundles

Part 3 in my series on Content Entities with Bundles, let's solve the problems of the previous much-too-simple example. Read More

Drupal 8 Content Entity Bundles – Part 2: Most Simple Entity with Bundles

Part 2 of my series on Content Entities with Bundles in Drupal 8. Read More

Drupal 8 Content Entity with Bundles – Part 1: Overview

Deep dive tutorial for how to create your own custom Entities with Bundles in Drupal 8. Read More

Drupal 8: How to add Comments to a Custom Entity Type

In Drupal 8 almost everything is configurable and customizable, but out of the box it may be unclear how to achieve some things. For example, adding comments to a custom entity type. Read More

Backdrop CMS

This weekend I had some extra time on my hands and decided to checkout Backdrop CMS. Then I wrote a long post about it... sort of Read More

WordPress Widget vs Drupal 8 Block

With the new Drupal 8 Blocks API, WordPress and Drupal are now more similar than not when it comes to Widgets vs Blocks. This post shows examples of each and highlights their similarities and differences. Read More

Guide to Drupal 8 Theme Development

Originally planned as an introduction to Drupal 8 theme development with Twig, this quickly became a very in-depth guide to many important aspects for building a complete theme. Read More

Custom Drupal 7 Rules Conditions and Actions

Some example Drupal Rules hooks providing conditions and actions. Read More

WordPress Rewrite API Examples

The WordPress Rewrite API can certainly be confusing. This post will look at how rewrites work in general, and provide multiple practical examples (and one very impractical example) of it in action. Read More

Sweet Widget Admin UI

In my continued attempt at making very simple plugins which greatly improve WordPress widgets, this plugin improves the widget editing experience by providing a larger widget editing area. Read More

Simple PHP Template Class

As a follow up to my earlier post, I wanted to show how to greatly improve the usefulness of the function by changing it to a class with distinct methods, and in the process reduce the previous approach's shortcomings. Read More

How to copy a live WordPress site to a local VVV machine

VVV is one of the best environments for WordPress development, but it only comes with a few sites by default. This post will guide you through creating a new local development site on VVV, and (optionally) importing a live site for local development. Read More

Sweet Widget Templates for WordPress

The way WordPress handles the HTML for widgets is clunky, inflexible, and basically wrong. This plugin solves the problem by providing true templates for widgets within your WordPress theme. Read More