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11 articles·about 96 minutes

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Creating Immersive VR Video Experiences in Drupal CMS

Learn how to integrate immersive 360° VR video experiences into your Drupal CMS site using A-Frame.js. From field formatters to responsive design, discover the technical details of bringing virtual reality to your content.

6 min 6 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
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Complete Guide: Setting Up Drupal on DigitalOcean

Full guide to deploying Drupal on a Digital Ocean droplet with a managed MySQL database, including server setup, security, SSL, and domain configuration.

13 min 13 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
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5 Drupal Essential SEO Modules

5 essential Drupal SEO modules to help you align your content with Google.

8 min 8 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
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Mastering Claude Code for Drupal Development: 5 tips

Discover the top 5 tips for maximizing Claude Code's potential in Drupal development. From context awareness to early exits, learn how to leverage AI-powered coding effectively for your Drupal projects.

9 min 9 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
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Building Bulletproof Background Tasks with Queue Workers

From AI content generation to data processing, discover how to build robust background task systems in Drupal using queue workers and Ultimate Cron. Real code, real solutions, real results.

8 min 8 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
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Complete Guide: Figma MCP + Cursor + Drupal 11 UI Patterns Workflow

Transform Figma designs into fully functional Drupal 11 Single Directory Components using Model Context Protocol and Cursor IDE. Learn how to automate your design-to-code workflow and maintain design-code parity.

10 min 10 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
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Building with Drupal 11 Canvas: Creating a Custom Hero Component

Learn how to build production-ready components for Drupal 11 Canvas using Single Directory Components. Transform your site building workflow with visual editing and reusable components.

11 min 11 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
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Drupal Canvas: 5 Tips and Tricks

Canvas is evolving fast, but these five techniques - slots, WYSIWYG integration, patterns, code components, and global regions - separate production-ready implementations from experimental builds. Here's how to use them effectively.

14 min 14 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
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Deploying Drupal to Production in 15 Minutes with DevPanel

Drupal deployment has historically been painful and expensive. DevPanel changes that with free, open-source orchestration that plugs into your own infrastructure. Here's how to go from zero to production in minutes.

5 min 5 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
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Nine Years of .module Files, the end of an Era

OOP hooks landed in Drupal 11.1 and procedural hooks are on the way out. After nine years of writing .module files, here's what actually changes in practice — and the opinions I've formed from using them on real projects.

6 min 6 min read · George Bonnici-Carter
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Lessons from a Blank Canvas

After building with Drupal Canvas for a while, four lessons stand out - and they chain together. Get the order of your building blocks right, keep them simple, then combine them into patterns. Here's what working on a new(ish) tool taught me.

6 min 6 min read · George Bonnici-Carter

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Developer guides

Suggested reading order

Creating Immersive VR Video Experiences in Drupal CMS

Complete Guide: Setting Up Drupal on DigitalOcean

5 Drupal Essential SEO Modules

Mastering Claude Code for Drupal Development: 5 tips

Building Bulletproof Background Tasks with Queue Workers

Complete Guide: Figma MCP + Cursor + Drupal 11 UI Patterns Workflow

Building with Drupal 11 Canvas: Creating a Custom Hero Component

Drupal Canvas: 5 Tips and Tricks

Deploying Drupal to Production in 15 Minutes with DevPanel

Nine Years of .module Files, the end of an Era

Lessons from a Blank Canvas

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