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Fixing CORS issues with decoupled drupal
A common issue is CORS errors when testing on a local environment on decoupled installations. This will guide you into fixing it.
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Getting an Angular PWA service worker installed on localhost
Service workers are meant to run on production builds over https. But we want to test on localhost.
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Troubleshooting tailwindss + postcss + angular
I stumbled upon some annoying errors setting up Tailwind and Angular. These snippets might fix things.
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Get site name programmatically in drupal 8 & 9
This configuration setting is easy to get with the following snippet.
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Render a button in drupal 8 & 9 with a render array
Render arrays are great for styling elements to keep consistency across future updates. Today: buttons.
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Check if a form is an entityForm
EntityForms are gaining importance in drupal 8 and 9. This is how to make sure you are in one.
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Change label and description of a revision log field in drupal 8 and 9
Revisions are a great thing for tracking changes between entities. This snippets allows you to name them different in your entity forms.
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Redirect anonymous users to login form in drupal 8 & 9
An often use case for dashboards or software behind a login is to redirect anonymous users to the login page. Like always, I do not want to use contributed modules for this.
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Overwrite input colors in Tailwind custom forms plugin
Tailwind custom forms is a great plugin to quickly theme your form elements. This snippet guides you through some set-up.
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Get image field with image style in preprocess_node()
This technique is used quite a lot to get an image styled url of an image in your twig file.
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How to use configuration as cacheable dependencies in drupal 8 & 9
Cacheable dependencies got introduced in drupal 8 and provides great power over your caching.
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Enable partial word search in database search API drupal 8 & 9
I did not expect the setting would be here, so I thought I'd share it.
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Count query results of entityQuery in drupal 8 or 9
A typical example of querying is getting the row count. This snippet shows you how.
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Add a html5 number field in a drupal 8 or 9 form
The form API in core is great, but without contributed modules it lacks a bit of sweetness for html 5.
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Add a html field to a form in drupal 8 & 9
The Form API changed a bit over the years. This is the way add a html field to a form in drupal 8 & 9.
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How to upgrade from Drupal 8 to 9 with composer [blog post + screen cast]
This blogposts gives you a summary on how to upgrade to drupal 9 and fix all composer issues.
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Get all vocabularies in drupal 8 & 9
This snippet works starting in drupal 8.8 and replaces older deprecated ones.
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List all campaign url's witch Mailchimp API in PHP
This snippet will help you to list all campaign urls with Mailchimp API
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Hide revision log field on a entity form
When using the node system we have a checkbox on the edit page to deactivate a log field. For custom entities we need to do it ourselves.
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List of AccessResult types in drupal 8 & 9
Drupal is using more and more AccessResult objects for access checking. Here is a list of all the access results available.
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Set moderation state programmatically in drupal 8
Moderation states help you give entities a state in workflows. Here is how to update your entity programmatically to a published workflow.
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Get the moderation state of entity or node programmatically in drupal 8
Worfklows are a powerful tool to add events and states to your entities.
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Add a menu item to the drupal toolbar
I like being consistent over every back-end I make. Custom forms with settings need to be available from the toolbar.
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Fix error: The config sync directory is not defined in $settings["config_sync_directory"]
This error occurs when installing a drupal 9 installation.
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How to make core version drupal 9 compatibe in module .info file
Make sure to edit the .info file to make your module compatible with drupal 8 & 9.
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Delete users that never logged in in drupal 8
An important clean-up task on bigger websites is to remove unused accounts. This snippet does the work.
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Amazon lightsail instance down every day [fixed]
I hosted a hobby site on an aws lightsail instance but it went down almost every day. It took me long to find the issue. Here's how I solved it.
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Get route of a views page with drupal console
I like drupal console a lot as a helper tool for development. In this snippet I wanted to get the route of a views page. The page is on /news-events.
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Give only custom block access but not block overview in drupal 8
Personally I do not like giving block access to website editors. In this one case, there was a need to edit custom blocks. I granted access to administer blocks, but I blocked access to the overview page with this EventSubscriber.
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Get current user role in drupal 8 or 9
Getting the current user role in code is quite easy, here's the snippet.
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Apply patch in composer without updating other modules
Patching workflow in drupal is something you need to learn a bit. I stumbled on a few cases where I would have to update one module only and want to prevent from updating the entire system. Here's the snippet
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Log messages in drupal 8 & 9
Loggin is very important. These snippets need to be used, be as precise as possible.
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Get paragraph type in preprocess_paragraph in drupal 8 & 9
Preprocessing on paragraphs is not used very often. But when needed, here is a snippet that gets you the correct type to add some preprocessing.
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Add body classes in drupal 8 & 9
There are two ways of adding body classes. The first is to add them in twig, the second is to provide additional classes in mytheme.theme.
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Add the year to your page.html.twig file
Snippet to dynamically add the year to your page.html.twig file.
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Get the current url path alias in drupal 8, 9 & 10
This snippet sums op the possibilities of getting the current url path alias.
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Disable css of a hubspot form
HubSpot is a marketing automation tool that offers forms to embed on your website. Here's how to disable the css that comes with it.
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Custom container width in Tailwind css
Snipet to make container larger or smaller on certain breakpoints
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Get is_front frontpage variable in node.html.twig twig file
This is quite an easy one. I want to know in my node.html.twig file if i'm on the homepage of the site. This snippet does the trick.
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Get logo path of custom theme in page.html.twig in drupal 8 or 9
The site logo moved to a block in drupal 8 but with this snippet you are still able to get the custom logo path, as defined in your settings file.
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Scrape first available text from your node and save them as meta description in drupal 8
Metatags can be hard when abandoning the body field in favor of paragraphs. This post gives you a generic solution for the problem.
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Set first paragraph text as description of metatag
Most websites abandon the body field in favor of paragraphs. One flaw this has, is that no longer a summary is provided for your (auto-generated) meta description. This snippet fixes this issue.
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Prevent drupal from sending e-mails [drupal 8 or 9]
There are use cases where you do not want drupal to send any mails at all. Here's a snippet that does the trick.
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Display a config value in your theme page.html.twig file in drupal 8 or 9
Often we create a custom settings form with stuff like social media url's or addresses. With this snippet you make the variables available in your page.twig.html file.