Talking Drupal #512 - Member Platform
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about The Member Platform, Why it was created, and How you can get involved with guest JD Leonard. We’ll also cover Profile as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Introduction to Member Platform Member Platform: Origin and Vision Member Platform Features and MVP Post-MVP Vision and Challenges SaaS Solutions and Drupal Forge CRM Project and Member Platform Vision Evaluating CRM Options Integrating External CRMs with Drupal Targeting Different Market Segments Current Progress and Future Plans Community Involvement and Contributions Getting Involved with...
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Talking Drupal #511 - UI Suite 2.0
Talking Drupal
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TD Cafe #006 - Carlos Ospina & Ana Laura Coto
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Talking Drupal #510 - Drupal Hooks: Drop 'em like they're hot
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Drupal Hooks, why they got changed in core, and what to do now with guest Karoly Négyesi better known as Chx. We’ll also cover Media Folders as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Deep Dive into Drupal Hooks The Evolution of Drupal Hooks Challenges and Solutions in Hook Conversion Community Involvement and Contributions The Future of Drupal Hook System Introduction to Procedural Hooks Understanding Theme Hooks Complexities of Preprocess Hooks Converting Hooks to Object-Oriented Impact on Contributed Modules Challenges in Core Conversion Future...
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Talking Drupal #509 - A WordPresser @ DrupalCon
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about DrupalCon, Wordpress, and what a wordpress guy can learn at a Drupal Event with guest Chris Reynolds. We’ll also cover Shortcode as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics The Pros and Cons of Short Codes Chris Reynolds' Journey to DrupalCon Comparing DrupalCon and WordCamp Funding and Organization of WordPress Events The Collaborative Spirit of the Drupal Community Wishlist for WordPress Features Composer Support in WordPress and Drupal Backward Compatibility in WordPress Challenges with Composer in Drupal Config Management in WordPress vs. Drupal...
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Talking Drupal #508 - Drupal User Groups & Meetups
Talking Drupal
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Talking Drupal #507 - International Drupal Federation
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TD Cafe #004 - Ivan Stegic & Randy Oest
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Talking Drupal #506 - Automated Testing Kit
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Today we are talking about Automated Testing Kit demo Recipe, Why Automated Testing is important, and How this recipe helps with guest André Angelantoni. We’ll also cover Taxonomy Views Integrator as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is Automated Testing Kit Features and benefits of Automated Testing Kit Cypress vs Playwright Where should these run Automated Testing Kit recipe Demo configuration Installing and setting up the Kit Using this on an existing site Managing tests and repositories Building and using recipes Debugging and troubleshooting tests Roadmap ...
info_outlineToday we are talking about the Custom Field Module, what it does, and why you might want to use it with guest Andy Marquis. We’ll also cover Facet Bot Blocker as our module of the week.
For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/505
Topics
- Meet the Guest: Andy Marquee
- Module of the Week: Facet Bot Blocker
- Exploring the Custom Field Module
- Benefits and Use Cases of Custom Field Module
- Custom Field Module vs. Other Solutions
- Advanced Features and Integrations
- Reflecting on Past Projects and Key Value
- Use Cases and Flexibility of Custom Fields
- Advanced Features and Integrations
- Challenges and Limitations
- Future Roadmap and Improvements
Resources
Guests
Andy Marquis - drupal.org/project/custom_field apmsooner
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Norah Medlin - tekNorah
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you been looking for an inexpensive way to mitigate an upsurge of bot traffic on your Drupal site’s faceted search pages? There’s a module for that
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Mar 2025, so about two months ago, by John Brandenburg (bburg) of Forum One
- Versions available: 1.0.2 which support Drupal 10 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Number of open issues: 4 open issues, one of which is a bug, but it did have a fix merged 4 days ago
- Usage stats:
- 106 sites
- Module features and usage
- A number of sites are seeing a huge upswing in bot traffic, and quite often a big part of that bot traffic is on one or more pages with faceted search
- Crawlers try to request every permutation of every possible combination of facets. If your page has multiple facets, and in particular facets that accept multiple values, the number of permutations becomes huge
- Facet Bot Blocker works by allowing you to set a maximum number of facet requests to allow, what error to return, and a custom HTML message to return to blocked user agents
- If you have Memcache or Redis available, it’s recommended to use the appropriate module, and Facet Bot Blocker will automatically store its settings there for reduced database reads
- The project page is also clear that if you are able to use a true Web Application Firewall (like Cloudflare or Akamai), that would be a better strategy. But if you don’t have one available, Facet Bot Blocker can help to mitigate the surges in bot traffic that are causing problems for many Drupal sites, particularly those hosted on platforms that charge based on usage