Writing Custom Drupal Modules the Right Way
A complete, maintainable module pattern using routes, services, dependency injection, permissions, and forms.
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Creating a Custom Drupal Theme From Scratch
How this portfolio’s theme organizes libraries, Twig, responsive behavior, accessibility, and performance.
Debugging Drupal 500 Errors by Following the Render Pipeline
A systematic way to isolate routing, data, rendering, and theme failures when Drupal returns a generic error page.
How Drupal Finds Twig Templates
Theme registry, template suggestions, loader paths, and cache rebuilds explained through a practical template-not-found failure.
Debugging Drupal Without Losing Your Mind
A calm debugging workflow using logs, Xdebug, Kint, browser tools, and progressively narrower hypotheses.
Building a Custom Block Plugin
A complete Drupal block plugin using attributes, dependency injection, configuration, and cache metadata.
Creating a Configuration Form
A complete, schema-backed Drupal configuration form with validation and dependency injection.
Creating Custom REST Endpoints
Secure Drupal endpoints with explicit routes, authentication, serialization, validation, and cache policy.