Talking Drupal #479 - Drupal CMS Media Management

Dec 9, 2024

Joining the conversation is Tony Barker, a UK-based front-end specialist at Annertech, who leads the media management track for Drupal CMS. He discusses the evolution of media management and its significance in modern web development. Listeners will learn about overcoming challenges with integrating Digital Asset Management systems, enhancing user experiences, and simplifying media uploads. Tony also shares insights on future enhancements and the importance of community engagement to optimize media assets within the Drupal ecosystem.

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INSIGHT

Broader Media Definition

Drupal CMS media management aims to encompass a broader definition of media.
This includes embeds, iframes, maps, and locally hosted media, considering their diverse properties.

ADVICE

Media Management for Marketers

Prioritize media management for content marketers using Drupal CMS.
Focus on performance scores and ease of use to improve SEO and user experience.

INSIGHT

Media Module Sweet Spot

Drupal's media module effectively handles mid-sized sites with moderate media reuse.
It struggles with smaller sites with minimal media and larger sites requiring extensive asset management.

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Today we are talking about Drupal CMS Media Management, How media management has evolved, and Why managing our media is so important with our guest Tony Barker. We’ll also cover URL Embed as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/479

Topics

What do we mean by media management in Drupal CMS
How is it different from media in Drupal today
Why is media management important
How are you applying these changes to Drupal
What phase are you in
Will this be ready for Drupal CMS release in January
What types of advanced media will supported
Do you see it growing to replace some DAMs
Are there future goals
How did you get involved
How can people get involved

Resources

Track 15 Proposal for Media Management
Issue to publish research on other CMS and the questionnaire results
Vision for media management https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal_cms/issues/3488393
Contributed module file upload field for media https://www.drupal.org/project/media_widget and these related modules
- https://www.drupal.org/project/media_link
- https://www.drupal.org/project/media_remote_embed
Slack: #starshot-media-management and #starshot
Drupal Core strategy for 2025-2028

Guests

Tony Barker - annertech.com tonypaulbarker

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Suzanne Dergacheva - evolvingweb.com pixelite

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted a simple way to insert oEmbed content on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
Module name/project name:
- URL Embed
Brief history
- How old: created in Sep 2014 by the venerable Dave Reid, though recent releases are by Mark Fullmer of the University of Texas at Austin
- Versions available: 2.0.0-alpha3 and 3.0.0-beta1, the latter of which works with Drupal 10.1 or 11. That said, it does declare a dependency on the Embed project, which unfortunately doesn’t yet have a Drupal 11-ready release
Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage technically, but needs a stable release
- Test coverage
- Documentation guide
- Number of open issues: 63 open issues, 4 of which are bugs against the current branch
Usage stats:
- 7,088 sites
Module features and usage
- A content creator using this module only needs to provide a URL to the content they want to embed, as the name suggests
- The module provides both a CKEditor plugin and a formatter for link fields. Note that you will also need to enable a provided filter plugin for any text formats where you want users to use the CKEditor button
- Probably the critical distinction between how this module works and other elements of the media system is that this bypasses the media library, and as such is better suited to “one off” uses of remote content like videos, social media posts, and more
- It’s also worth mentioning that the module provides a hook to modify the parameters that will be passed to the oEmbed host, for example to set the number of posts to return from Twitter
- I could definitely see this as a valuable addition to the Event Platform that we’ve talked about previously on the podcast, but the lack of a Drupal 11-ready release for the Embed module is an obvious concern. So, if any of our listeners want to take that on, it would be a valuable contribution to the community