Phil Wolstenholme

Sep 16, 2022

Adding one centralised banner to a whole portfolio of websites via the power of ‘the edge’

If you work for a UK organisation or company in a web/digital role, you’ve probably spent at least some time in the last week adding a banner to one of your sites referencing the Queen’s death and your employer’s condolences. If you live elsewhere in the world then maybe you’ve…

Cdn

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Adding one centralised banner to a whole portfolio of websites via the power of ‘the edge’

Cdn

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Feb 8, 2021

My DrupalCon Europe 2020 session feedback

94% of attendees gave my session a 5 star (79%) or 4 star (15%) rating. Back in December I gave a talk on using Tailwind with Drupal, and why, for me, it makes sense in an agency environment where long-running projects are worked on by large(ish) teams. …

Drupal

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Drupal

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Apr 8, 2019

Avoiding missing image src values when using the Drupal Bamboo Twig module with Stage File Proxy

Bamboo Twig is a great Drupal module which gives you a lot of extra Twig functions to work with Drupal specific functionality in Twig without needing to write a lot of preprocess function code (in PHP). It allows you to do things like render views, blocks, regions, entities (with view…

Drupal

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Drupal

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Mar 14, 2019

Companies using utility-first CSS (for example, Tailwind) in production

This is a list I put together while doing research while we were considering a trial of utility-first CSS in the Drupal team at CTI Digital (and have since kept relatively up-to-date). I’ve posted the list here to make it easier to refer to in the future. …

CSS

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CSS

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Dec 21, 2018

Tips for using Kint in Drupal Twig development

I’d always known about Kint, but I’d never really used it until recently. The standard dump(thing_to_dump) command was good enough, but a conversation on the Drupal Twig Slack channel reminded me that Kint shows available methods on an object, and that was good enough to prompt me to switch. Kint…

Drupal

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Drupal

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Nov 19, 2018

Using join, include, and attributes in YAML (.yml) files with Data Transform Plugin for Pattern Lab

Aleksip’s Data Transform Plugin (DTP) is a tremendous tool for people using Pattern Lab and Drupal together. It allows you to emulate Drupal’s Attribute and Url objects, which is really useful when creating Twig templates that will be consumed by both Pattern Lab and Drupal. It also includes some useful…

Drupal

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Drupal

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Nov 19, 2018

Passing values from a Drupal Paragraphs item to a custom module’s form via Bamboo Twig

At work I’m one sprint into a new project where we have decided to use Pattern Lab and component-based design for the first time. It’s going really well, and I’m learning a lot. As a frontend developer it’s great to finally have control of the markup coming from Drupal, and…

Web Development

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Passing values from a Drupal Paragraphs item to a custom module’s form via Bamboo Twig

Web Development

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Aug 28, 2018

Wolstenhol.me as a Vue application

Some notes for the Manchester FRED show and tell session: https://wolstenhol.me is a Vue application, replacing a Drupal site that was a pain to keep updated. Free SSL and optimisations from Cloudflare, free hosting and deployments from Netlify, free private Git from Bitbucket, free image CDN and processing from Cloudinary. …

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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Jan 30, 2017

lasttramfrom.co.uk beta

Note: the beta.lasttramfrom.co.uk URL is no longer valid, just use https://lasttramfrom.com instead. I’ve just tentatively linked to beta.lasttramfrom.co.uk from a few places. It’s an updated version of my lasttramfrom website, but built as a progressive web application using Vue.js. As well as a new frontend, I’ve also rewritten the backend…

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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Jan 24, 2017

Enable Views contextual filter page <title> overriding in Drupal 8

Views in Drupal doesn’t seem to support a contextual filter value overriding the <title> of a view being displayed as a page. The heading on the page changes, but the title in the <head> of the document isn’t altered. Here’s one way how to have a custom module take the view title (with the contextual filter override correctly inserted) and apply it to the route (page) title: (Note that that is a very targeted hook_views_post_render function in a specific custom module and so it bails out early if the ID and display don’t match what we’re looking for. In a more general module you’d want to remove the early return call and instead wrap lines 13–15 in another if statement)

Drupal

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Drupal

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