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Drupal 8 comes with a brand new plugin system. This article provides a high-level overview of both the annotation and hook discovery mechanisms by examining a real world implementation in the form of core's Field API Widgets.

Media module comes with the media widget, by default this includes an 'Edit Media' button that allows the user to edit other fields on the file from the node edit form. This post covers removing the edit button from the media widget.

Taking data from Drupal to Solr is common-place these days with the well-established Apache Solr and Search API Solr modules. But what happens when you need to take data the other way. This article explores migrating legacy data from a Solr Index to Drupal nodes.

One of our clients is in the process of standardizing on Drupal for their various web-presences and micro-sites. This is inline with the ‘One Drupal to rule them all’ phenomenon Dries has written and presented on. In this case the client’s web presence is a mixture of php, Zend applications, Wordpress and various other non-PHP platforms.

Direct from DrupalDownunder 2012, PreviousNext developer Lee Rowlands explains how to roll your own fields, widgets and formatters (and why you'd want to).