Talking Drupal

Today we are talking about Drupalcon Rotterdam, Canvas and evaluating modules. We'll also cover Revision Graph as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/573 Topics DrupalCon Rotterdam recap AI summits and training FrankenPHP app servers Driesnote highlights Advocacy and WordPress Rosetta Sprint and MCP Canvas multilingual and headless 3Frameworks And Voiceover Canvas And SDCs Headless And Signage Drupal 12 Beta Testing Rector And Deprecations PHP 8.5 Requirements Rethinking Module Evaluation AI And Commit Scale Module Discoverability 0Distributions Versus Recipes Resources Wordpal Core metrics Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Tim Sharp - tea-sharp MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to see a node's revision history drawn like a Git graph, with each translation as its own branch? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: Revision Graph Brief history How old: created in Sep 2019 by Shibin Das (D34dMan) of Factorial Versions available: 4.0.0, which works with Drupal 11 and 12, and 3.1.1 for Drupal 10 and 11 Maintainership Actively maintained, 4.0.0 landed in mid-August after two alphas the same week Security coverage Test coverage Documentation: a solid README plus in-depth technical and revision-model docs in the repo Number of open issues: zero open issues Usage stats: 242 sites Module features and usage With the module installed, every node gets a Revision Graph tab, right next to the core Revisions tab One row per revision, one lane per language, so you can see when a translation branched off and how it's evolved since Each dot tells you two things: a solid ring means that revision was live at some point, a dashed ring means it's a draft that never was, and a filled center means it's what that language is serving right now It works with Content Moderation if you have it, showing your workflow states as text badges with whatever names your site uses, and adapts cleanly when you don't Reverts, and edits made from the published version while a draft is pending, show up as forks instead of a straight line Under the hood: Drupal doesn't actually store which revision a new one was derived from, so the module adds a small base field that records it at presave Older revisions don't get backfilled, on purpose, since reconstructing that would mean guessing. Those edges are inferred, and the graph draws inferred edges differently from recorded ones, so it never implies more precision than it has So on an existing site, make sure you run drush updb after enabling it Ships a distinct color for all 95 language codes Drupal knows, so it looks good out of the box, but you can override a lane's color or the fallback palette in config The graph loads in pages as you scroll, so long histories render quickly, and it's keyboard navigable, ARIA-labelled, and works in forced-colors mode Great for editorial teams on multilingual sites, and handy for compliance or auditing when you need to answer "what was live, and when?" Caveats: it's nodes only, and for obvious reasons a user will need the "view all revisions" permission to see the graph  

Today we are talking about PHP, Open Source, and Sustainability with guest Elizabeth Barron. We'll also cover AI Image Classification as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/572 Topics What is the PHP Foundation Language Health Challenges Paid Core Developers Release Infrastructure Foundation Role and Perception Docs and Onboarding Elizabeth Open Source Journey Future of PHP Ecosystem Listener Elephant Question Ecosystem Security Hub Advisory Board Limits Modernizing Mailing Lists Foundation Awareness Push PHP Ambassadors Strategy State of PHP Survey Five Year Vision Community Hour Podcast php.net Design Refresh Resources The PHP Foundation Derek Rethans xdebug Infrastructure https://github.com/derickr Drupal advocacy Link to community hour podcast Php 8.5 Contribute to php article Guests Elizabeth Barron - thephp.foundation elizabethbarron Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Tim Sharp - tea-sharp MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted the images in your Drupal media library to be automatically given alt text, a rich description, and a set of tags, using AI? There's a recipe for that. Module name/project name: AI Image Classification Brief history How old: created in Sep 2025 by Artem Dmitriiev (a.dmitriiev) of 1xINTERNET Versions available: 1.1.1, which requires Drupal 11.2 or newer Maintainership Actively maintained, latest release and commit just two weeks ago Security coverage Number of open issues: 9 open issues, 4 of which are bugs Usage stats: No usage data reported Module features and usage This recipe applies core's image media type recipe, then adds a description field and a tags field to image media, with tags in a new "Image Classification" vocabulary Editors get a "Generate Alt Text" button right on the image field, using the Field Widget Actions module, with a prompt written like an accessibility expert: under 100 characters, no "image of", flag logos and graphics On save, a vision model writes a description of up to eight sentences: colours, photo versus illustration, people, mood, and key objects, using the media name for context Tagging is chained off that description rather than the image itself, picking or creating up to five short, general terms, and reusing similar existing tags where it can It also adds bulk actions to the media admin view, so you can run description and tagging across an existing library, not just new uploads Description and tag filters are added to the media library, including the widget, so editors can search for "sunny summer day" right in the image picker The stated bigger goal is making images discoverable by RAG and other AI search, so good descriptions become a foundation for future AI features. In fact, this recipe is a dependency for the Canvas AI Image Search recipe, which is still a work in progress Under the hood, images get scaled to 400px wide and converted to PNG before they're sent to the model, which keeps things faster and cheaper One caveat: your site needs an AI provider with a default "chat with image vision" model, and the recipe checks for that when it's applied Also worth a look: the description prompt asks the model to describe people's age, gender, and ethnicity, and even name them if it can, so you may want to review that prompt for your privacy policies, and adjust accordingly Like any recipe, it provides a robust starting point for some compelling features, and every prompt and setting can be tweaked after you apply it Lastly, I wanted to mention that in today's Driesnote in here in Rotterdam, Dries demoed being able to use MCP to search images on his own site. A recipe like this could help you make sure the images in your media library have sufficient metadata to make that work reliably

Today we are talking about GovHub, Drupal in Government, and Why Governments Love Drupal with guest Jasmyne Epps. We'll also cover Convivial Gov Site Template as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/571 Topics GovHub Origins and Goals Feature Requests and Governance Why Government Chooses Drupal Team Structure and Release Cadence Accessibility and Compliance Strategy Hosting Model and Multisite Structured Content and Microcontent Syndication and Emergency Alerts Orchard Design System Explained Training and Onboarding Editors Gov Talks Conference Logo Specs and Releases Ticket Prioritization PRICE QA Workflow with Tugboat Handling Traffic Spikes Drupal 11 Performance Talk Drupal 11 Upgrade Gotchas Getting Users Excited Translation Strategy Limits Why Government Loves Drupal Resources GovHub The Bug Stops Here — The State of Georgia Shifts Left (GovCon 2025 presentation with Jasmyne Epps and James Sansbury) Accelerating an ambitious migration and development project (GovHub + Tugboat migration story) Logo page Public facing knowledge base Orchard design system (P)Rice (P)olitics - (R)each - (I)mpact - (C)onfidence - (E)ffort Luma Guests Jasmyne Epps - jasmyneepps.com jasmyneepps Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Amber Matz - tugboatqa.com [amber himes matz](https://www.drupal.org/u/amber himes matz) MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to stand up a polished, accessible government website in Drupal (with components, content types, SEO, and cookie consent all wired up) without writing any code? There's a site template for that. Module name/project name: Convivial Gov Brief history Created in March 2026 by Morpht, the shop behind the Convivial family — with Ivan Zugec leading the maintainer team. Versions available: 1.3.3, which works with Drupal 11 Maintainership Actively maintained: release just last week, on September 16th Security coverage Test coverage: functional tests for install and validation, plus a kernel requirements test. Documentation there's a full handbook over at docs.morpht.com, and a live demo at gov.convivial.io Open issues: none? Site template features and usage Like the Haven site template we talked about a couple of weeks ago, Convivial Gov gives you a curated stack plus demo content, and in this case hands you a robust, ready-to-customize government site. Because it's built on Drupal CMS, you get all the latest Drupal tooling: Canvas for visual page building, Single Directory Components, and Recipes. The front end is Morpht's Morphos theme, built on Tailwind and DaisyUI, so you get dark mode, multiple colour palettes, and a big library of editor-friendly components out of the box. It's worth mentioning that using the Morphos theme on a production site requires a paid license The provided components are sorted into six buckets: container, content, child, element, background, and behavior. They include fun ones like scroll reveal and a colour palette switching behavior The content model is broad. You get seven content types: Page, Section, Article, Publication, Resource, Topic, and Audience. And, they come with a stack of teaser and card view modes to display them. The whole point is no-code: a site builder can compose sophisticated pages in Canvas without ever touching a template. One thing to watch: the default timezone is Australia/Sydney out of the box It's also worth comparing Convivial Gov to another site template called Local. Both dropped in March 2026, both are Canvas-based Drupal CMS site templates for the public sector, and both lean on ECA for automation — so there's real common ground. The difference is scope and mechanism. Local, from Annertech, is narrowly purpose-built for local councils and community-service directories: it ships a specific service information architecture — Service and Service Landing content types — with ECA wired so section pages stay in sync when service pages get published or updated, taking its cues from the gov.uk design system. Convivial Gov goes the other way — it's design-system-led and general-purpose, a broad component library and content model meant for any government, agency, or marketing site rather than one particular workflow.

Today we are talking about Laravel, Marketing, and The PHP Foundation with guest Matt Stauffer. We'll also cover Formdazzle as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/570 Topics What Is Laravel Writing Laravel Books AI and Technical Writing Laravel Versus CMS Drupal as Framework Integrating Laravel and CMS Laravel and Symfony Marketing Modern PHP Laravel Community Marketing Jigsaw and Onramp Drupal Marketing Lessons Onboarding Focus in Laravel Laravel BDFL Changes Onboarding And Docs Drupal Framework Perception What PHP Foundation Does Marketing PHP Vs Laravel AI Answers And Positioning Cross Ecosystem Collaboration Resources Jigsaw Onramp Native php Alpine Tailwind Vue Laravel herd php.new Blog post on how to contribute to php Laracon talk Kent C. Dodds The Last Software Engineer (how in the AI era, we need to all become Product Engineers) Guests Matt Stauffer - mattstauffer.com Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Amber Matz - tugboatqa.com [amber himes matz](https://www.drupal.org/u/amber himes matz) MOTW Correspondent Bernardo Martinez - bernardm28 Brief description: This week's module is Formdazzle, a developer tool that makes theming Drupal forms easier. Drupal's Form API is a powerful abstraction, but when you want to target one specific field, label, button, or form wrapper, the default Twig template suggestions can be limited. The module works by taking information Drupal already knows about the form, like the form ID, element type, and element name, and using that to generate more targeted Twig template suggestions. For example, in a Drupal View with exposed filters, you may want to style the Reset button differently from the Submit button. By default, Drupal renders both buttons through the same input–submit.html.twig template, which makes it difficult to customize them independently. This module lets you assign different templates to individual form buttons—such as Submit, Reset, or Filter—based on their action, type, and other properties. This module has no configuration. Just enable the module and it starts working and look at the twig debug comments including extra template suggestions. Module name/project name: formdazzle Brief history How old: created in 13 September 2019 by johnalbin Versions available: ^10.1 ^11 ^12 Maintainership Actively maintained Last release was 1 September 2026, currently the module has two maintainers Stephen Mustgrave and John Albin. The module includes both test and security coverage. Usage stats: 3,956 according to drupal.org Module features and usage There's no configuration. Just enable the module and it starts working, including with Views exposed forms and Webform. Formdazzle automatically adds more specific theme suggestions based on the form ID, element type, and element name.

On today's show we are talking about Site Templates, What they do, and How you can use them with guests Tim Lehnen & Adam Globus-Hoenich. We'll also cover Haven as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/569 Topics MOTW: Haven What Site Templates Are Canvas Components Included Promoting Templates Beyond Drupal Templates vs Distributions Who Benefits from Templates Template Types and Adoption Where to Find Templates Featured vs Installer List Free vs Paid Templates Recipes vs Templates Distributions and Themes Empowering Site Builders Exporting a Template Designing for Users Releases Without Upgrades Best Practices and AI How to Contribute Resources Webinar: Drupal Canvas and Agentic Content Management: What Enterprise Teams Need to Know Drupal Site Templates Tim's book - Fog & Fireflies Guests Tim Lehnen - @TimLehnen hestenet Adam Globus-Hoenich - @PhenaProxima phenaproxima Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Stephen Cross - SecondSginalMedia.com [stephencross]](https://www.drupal.org/u/stephencross) Amber Matz - tugboatqa.com [amber himes matz](https://www.drupal.org/u/amber himes matz) Module of the Week Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Haven - Site Template - Designed for non-profit sites, this template features a bright, warm design that can be adapted for many use cases. It comes pre-confifgured with blog, projects and people profiles, as well as newsletter signup, donation add-ons and more.