Talking Drupal Newsletter 10/13/25

Episode #524

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Today we are talking about Single Directory Components, Leveling up your skills, and How DrupalEasy can help with our guest Mike Anello. We’ll also cover Markdown Easy as our module of the week.

Topics

• Discussion on Single Directory Components

• Drupal Easy’s Training Programs

• Light Bulb Moments in Learning

• Choosing Post CSS for Front-End Development

• Course Materials and Updates

• Course Structure and Student Engagement

• Introducing the Show and Tell Series

Resources

• DrupalEasy’s Professional Single Directory Components course

• Dries blogs about Markdown Easy:

  • https://dri.es/installing-and-cbonfiguring-markdown-easy-for-drupal

  • https://dri.es/switching-to-markdown-after-20-years-of-html

• DrupalEasy Show & Tell

  • https://www.drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2025/10/introducing-drupaleasy-show-tell-our-new-youtube-video-series

  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUf-wKGJjCXEXH03Mw44hJ84YG-ZwmVKp

• Drupal dojo

• Ignore missing

  • {% include ‘test:button’ ignore missing with {

Guests

• Mike Anello - drupaleasy.com ultimike

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
Stephen Cross - stephencross.com stephencross
Hayden Baillio - hgbaillio

Module of the Week

with Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Markdown Easy - The Markdown Easy module is a Drupal text filter to convert Markdown into HTML.

The primary use case for this module is to quickly and easily be able to configure and utilize a Markdown text filter. This module utilizes the league/commonmark Markdown parser library and allows for the bare minimum configuration in the Drupal admin interface.

It is required to utilize the “Limit allowed HTML tags and correct faulty HTML” text filters in conjunction with this module, see the Advanced configuration docs to remove this requirement.

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Upcoming Episodes

#526 TBD. Recording October 21.
#527 AI in Drupal with James Abrahams. Recording October 28.
#528 - Drupal Goes to the U.N. with Tiffany Farriss and Mike Gifford. Recording on November 4.
#529 - MCP, Automators, and Agents with Mike Gifford. Recording November 11.

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