Blog Posts - Drupal 10

Drupal 10 had a pretty good run.  In December 2022, the tenth version of Dries Buytaert’s brainchild marked another major milestone for Drupal. And it wasn’t just a shiny new number slapped onto the admin toolbar. Drupal 10 brought some major structural upgrades that laid much of the groundwork for how we build today.  But, as is tradition in web development, just when everything starts feeling comfortable, someone taps you on the shoulder and reminds you it’s time to upgrade aga

The improved blocks system in Drupal 10 provides a lot of flexibility to the site builder.  But, have you ever had the problem of blocks showing on undesired pages because of the limits to visibility patterns? The Problem Scenario Say you added a custom block that only shows for users, so you set a visibility path with a wildcard like so: “/user/*”. All works great, as it should, and life is great! Oh but no! Don’t celebrate too fast says your project manager. Here comes the problem.