It is common for a Drupal site to list multiple items. It could be several authors of a single article, the days a recreation center is open, or the flavors an ice cream parlor serves. Clean, structured data is a strong point of Drupal, but the display of that structured content is limited out of the box. That is why DevCollaborative partnered with the Agaric Tech Collective to complete a stable release of In Other Words, a Drupal module that gives site builders the power to configure precise and natural ways to display lists of items. , Punctuating Lists If an article has multiple authors ..read more

Always run the desired PHP version when your hosting solution has multiple versions available "Oh, you wanted *that* PHP?" , At Agaric, we perform a lot of Drupal upgrades. These very often involve transitioning away from older versions of PHP. Even when your hosting service provides multiple versions of PHP, you can still run into issues activating the appropriate one for each site: whether that's within the web server, at the command line, or via Drush (or other tools). In this blog post, we'll be providing remedies for all of these cases. Most content applies to any PHP application ..read more

How to filter a view by content that references the current node in modern Drupal References and contextual filters , It is often enough throughout the journey of building websites that you will desire to create very specific lists of content. In my current endeavor, I am working in Drupal 9 with 2 content types: Office location and Event . Each Event occurs at an Office location, which is indicated by an Office location entity reference field on the Event. Note that any info in this blog will also be relevant to Drupal 8, Drupal 10, and be ..read more

The development of Therapy Fidelity In support of evidence-based therapy , Therapy Fidelity is a mobile interface that displays 132 sequential steps of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to improve the fidelity of following the treatment protocol. The Challenge Leaders in the field of psychotherapy have been encouraging psychotherapists to adopt evidence-based treatments such as CBT for 20 years but it has been largely unsuccessful. Therapists have been unwilling and unable to rigorously follow CBT protocols with fidelity. Therapists cannot ..read more

Recommendations for social media as Twitter melts down Host your own community! , As Elon Musk destroys Twitter, a lot of clients have asked about alternative social media, especially 'Mastodon'— meaning the federated network that includes thousands of servers, running that software and many other FLOSS applications, all providing interconnecting hubs for distributed social media. Agaric has some experience in those parts, so we are sharing our thoughts on the opportunity in this crisis. In short: For not-for-profit organizations and news outlets especially, this is a chance to host your o ..read more

Getting an audio player to show on your content nodes only takes a few steps. However, like many things in Drupal, knowing what those few steps are can be a bit of a challenge. This short guide will provide a basic introduction for anyone looking to use this core functionality on their site. Step 1: Enable the Media module The media module is available in Drupal core, and just needs to be enabled. Step 2: Create a new Media type In the admin toolbar, navigate to Structure > Media types > Add media type You may or may not have specific needs that determine how you name your media type. I ..read more

Drupal 9 Component Plugin ContextException "not a valid context" after CTools, Symfony update , Upgrading to CTools 3.10.0 and/or various Symfony upgrades can break the simple task of adding content on your Drupal site. Drupal\Component\Plugin\Exception\ContextException: The context is not a valid context. in Drupal\Core\Executable\ExecutablePluginBase->getContextDefinition() (line 184 … Update:  Seems confirmed this is CTools, see critical bug issue. And this fixed it: git revert 0fbbbaf [main 7be1cd2] Revert fatal error standard code update "Update composer lock" 1 file chang ..read more

Here is how to deal with the surprising-to-impossible-seeming error "Unable to uninstall the MySQL module because: The module 'MySQL' is providing the database driver 'mysql'.." Like, why is it trying to uninstall anything when you are installing? Well, it is because you are installing with existing configuration— and your configuration is out-of-date. This same problem will happen on configuration import on a Drupal website, too. (See update below for those steps!) Really this error message is a strong reminder to always run database updates and then commit any resulting configuration change ..read more

Uniting Visions Kicking off Thursday 3pm ET planning & building sessions for democratic conversation scaling platform, Visions Unite , Hi friends and collaborators, join us today at 3pm ET (or any subsequent Thursday at 3) as we kick off a series of research, planning, discussion, and building sessions for Visions Unite. As our primary pro bono project, Agaric is working on Visions Unite, "where people seeking to make the world more whole can share ideas and information and gather the commitment and resources to build power to be the change we need", which a dozen projects have tried t ..read more

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