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We recently spent some quality time with Claude Code to (finally!) update academy.drupaleasy.com, the training home for DrupalEasy's workshops and courses. We had several goals for the update, all of which we have achieved: A consistent, modern look Improved accessibility Verified class completion pages Office hours attendance statistics Prepare for the Drupal 11 upgrade If you've never taken a DrupalEasy course, then (sadly) there won't be too much for you to see. But, for our hundreds of alumni, this upgrade hopefully provides a big improvement and some fun aspects as well. New look We admit it, design isn't our thing

Over the past couple of years, we have seen fewer and fewer training options available for Drupal beginners. Since we have just contributed to this issue with the sunsetting of our Drupal Career Online (DCO) program , it seems like a good time to review possible reasons and what the current situation means for Drupal's future - spoiler alert: none of this is good news. If for no other reason than the sustainability of Drupal, alarm bells should be ringing in every corner of the Drupal community. In the past, we have often relied on our ability to execute technical

With more than 200 alumni spread across dozens of states and six countries, about 30 curriculum updates, 5 versions of Drupal taught over 2,000 hours of live(ly,) class sessions (by mostly Mike Anello aka @ultimike) over the past 15 years; DrupalEasy – with satisfaction, pride & great fulfillment – announces the conclusion of Drupal Career Online as a publicly offered career technical education program. We thank our students, our scholarship sponsors, and the many mentors and internship hosts who over the last decade and a half have put their trust in us to help bring new talent into the Drupal

For more years that I care to count, I've been holding weekly 2-hour, DrupalEasy Office Hours for members of the DrupalEasy Learning Community. Unstructured, DrupalEasy Office Hours are a unique opportunity for students and alumni to ask just about any Drupal-related question they have - regardless if it is something related to our curriculum, or a challenging task they are working on for a client. These weekly co-working sessions are a fun and interesting way for all of us to build knowledge and skills, and have become a foundation for our dynamic DrupalEasy Learning Community. Sometimes, topics we cover in

The second major version of the Markdown Easy Drupal contrib module was released on August 17, 2025 and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. The release has some new features, a simplified configuration, and a single minor bug fix. The original goal of the Markdown Easy module was to provide an easy-to-use, easy-to-maintain, and secure-by-default Markdown processor that is easily added to Drupal sites as a standard text filter. Version 1.0.0 of the module was released on September 2, 2023 and since then the module has had a single maintenance release and small, but loyal group of users

18 total hours, delivered 3 hours/day for 6 days across 2 weeks for $600 Introducing the newest course in DrupalEasy's Drupal training catalog: Professional Single Directory Components (PSDC.) Leveraging our experience in delivering world-class long-form training material, we're excited to present this latest meticulously developed and beta-tested curriculum on an existing, emerging topic that is changing how Drupal sites are themed. This was a fantastic class! Delivered in practical lessons, it upgraded my Drupal front-end capabilities. - Eric Michalsen Single directory components (SDC) are in the midst of modernizing how Drupal themes are built. PSDC teaches the fundamentals of building

In early April, 2025, I was a guest on the Talking Drupal podcast discussing Back-to-Basics, an idea I had to get more beginner-level presentations at Drupal events as a way to better support (and retain) our newer community members. As I am currently a bit overcommitted, this, regretfully, is not something that I have the bandwidth to lead. I do feel that the idea, and getting it up and running as soon as possible, is a good one that can contribute greatly as one solution to the declining pool of Drupal developers that will sustain us into the future. So

Organizations can now be rewarded with Drupal contribution credits (among other enticements) for hiring new, inexperienced (IXP) Drupal developers. After many months (years?) of planning, the Drupal IXP program is open and accepting applications for hiring organizations. From now forward, any participating organization that hires a new Drupal developer (with less than 3 months of paid experience) can earn 250 contribution credits upon successful program completion. I'm super proud to have been working with Carlos and Anilu ( A Drupal couple) and a number of other volunteers on this effort and am really happy to see it launched. Why? The

As part of weekly office hours for DrupalEasy students and alumni , I am often asked to suggest sessions at upcoming Drupal events that I think are worthwhile. During one our our most recent DrupalEasy Office Hours, I was again asked to run down the list of my picks from all the sessions at DrupalCon Atlanta 2025 , and afterward I thought that it might make a fun blog post. Of course, I can't in good conscience suggest that my picks are the best for anyone else to attend among the ginormous volume of sessions available. I can share only

With Drupal Starshot on the horizon, the possibilities of expanding the market share for Drupal through Drupal CMS and building further on the power of Drupal Core creates a new vision, new opportunities and hopefully a renewed path of growth for our beloved community. So, while we all look to fully understand the Starshot initiative and its implications for our businesses and the way we market Drupal, it seems like a good time to also reflect, and perhaps begin to really address, the dwindling Drupal talent pool as well as lack of available Drupal jobs. We need to take a

I was fortunate enough to attend two very different European Drupal events recently, and wanted to take a few minutes to share my experience as well as thank the organizers for their dedication to the Drupal community. The events couldn't have been more different - one being a first-time event in a town I've never heard of and the other celebrating their 20th anniversary in a city that can be considered the crossroads of the Netherlands. DrupalCamp Cemaes First off - it is pronounced KEM-ice (I didn't learn this until I actually arrived). Cemaes is a small village at the

a second official version of Drupal - Dries Buytaert, in his blog post announcing Drupal Starshot If you're a Drupal developer of any caliber and pay any attention to the goings-on in the Drupal community, then you no doubt have heard about Starshot, recently announced by Dries Buytaert at DrupalCon Portland 2024. In this post, I'll do my best to not repeat everything that was announced, but rather to summarize, ask a question or two and offer an opinion or two… The basics Starshot will be a new download available on drupal.org that includes contributed modules and configuration to provide

Image used with permission from Michael Richardson from Ironstar.io . I took a lot away from DrupalCon Portland 2024, and while one of my lasting memories from the main keynote (the Driesnote) will be the introduction of Starshot, something that has occupied a good amount of space in my brain is what happened just prior to Dries’ Starshot announcement. At the start of his presentation ( the 21:15 mark of this video,) Dries asks everyone with at least one year of Drupal experience to stand up. He then asked everyone with less than three years of experience with Drupal to

One of the signature events of every Drupalcon (IMHO) is contribution day, when community members from around the world gather to work together in the same physical space to advance various aspects of the project - from strategic and community initiatives to contributed modules and themes as well as non-code contributions like Promote Drupal and, of course, core contributions. As part of this, space is always set aside for new contributors, with community volunteers helping to organize, train, and mentor community members new to project contribution. This space strives to be a welcoming environment to those of all skills and

Markdown is a text processing library that takes readable text and converts it into HTML. Started over 20 years ago, it is now a widely-used library that makes it easy for people to write text documents that can be easily and predictably converted into HTML. Quick example - the Markdown syntax "this is **important**" converts to "this is important" after passing through a Markdown converter. There are many "flavors" of Markdown today - most include the basic syntax and many include their version of "extended Markdown". Examples include Github-flavored Markdown and CommonMark. Predictably, there have been Markdown-related Drupal contrib modules