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Layout Builder allows quickly creating website layouts from pre-built components added to sections. By default, Drupal provides four types of sections: one, two, three, and four columns. These columns have a predefined behavior the editors have no control over. Drupal offers the ability to create our own types of sections, so we can tailor them to fit our project. This is the process we'll show you in our article.

Layout Builder is a complex functionality that, as soon as it’s installed, may not suit every website. However, it can be customized to work appropriately for almost any website. Such a procedure may seem complicated and costly. Fortunately, there are modules available to extend the standard functionality. In this text, we’ll look at one of them - the Bootstrap Layout Builder which aims to adapt the Layout Builder to the specifics of Bootstrap.

The website loading speed is a very important aspect in the user's perception of the portal. Then how can you speed up the loading of a website that has a lot of media or iframes? One of the best solutions is to take advantage of lazy loading. The easiest way to use this method in Drupal is to use the Lazy-load module.

The standard method of managing Drupal's display mode may be too limited in some cases. If you want to efficiently create differentiated views used when listing terms or content related to the terms, you can try Layout Builder. What if, for example, the graphical interface, complexity, or genericity disqualifies this tool among the considered solutions? The Taxonomy Views Integrator (TVI) module may help here.

When creating a website whose editors will be working on content with photos, a problem often arises: how to manage the images so that the editor doesn’t have to manually edit them when they want to publish the same content with a different look? In Drupal, we can hit this problem when creating new view modes for any entity with images. The purpose of view modes is to serve the same content in a different form than the default one. For text or date fields, we will use different formatters. And for images?

Modern websites require modern solutions for their editors. Nowadays, a plain WYSIWYG text editor is often not enough. To meet the expectations of the current market, many solutions that provide users with the possibility of advanced, visual content editing have been created. One of these is Gutenberg. In this article, we'll try to describe its main functions and advantages, as well as present other interesting solutions.

When using any kind of solution, we usually encounter the need to create generic support functions. A similar situation occurs when working with templates in Drupal 9. If you’ve ever created custom code to display a block, view, or entities in a Drupal 9 template, and are interested in ready-made and tested solution, this article is for you. We’ll show you the Twig Tweak module, which provides a number of support functions.

Anyone who had contact with managing a Drupal-based system has probably gone through one of two scenarios. They were confident in their movements and quickly got to where they needed to go, or annoyed they reached the simplest places after many redirects. If the second description fits your experience, you’re about to discover a way that prevents you from having to have all the paths in your head. Let me present the Admin Toolbar!

For laying out content on a website, Drupal standardly uses a single body field that takes advantage of the WYSIWYG capabilities and is available immediately after installation of the CKEditor. This solution is easy to use but not flexible enough to be suitable in every case. For more advanced layouts, we can use the functionality prepared by the community in the Paragraphs module.

When creating content for a website, it is sometimes necessary to plan its publication later down the line. However, taking care of it manually can be both time-consuming and inconvenient. This is when Scheduler comes in handy – a Drupal module that will help you automate this process. Using it will allow us, among other things, to schedule the publication of content for a specific date and time.