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The DrupalCon Chicago 2026 Driesnote kicked off with a keynote that was equal parts celebration and wake-up call. With 1,310 attendees in the room and Drupal turning 25, Dries Buytaert delivered one of his most candid Driesnotes yet. He acknowledged a tough market, AI disruption hitting all sides of the Drupal ecosystem at once, and then laid out a concrete plan for what comes next.

This wasn’t the typical “look what we shipped” keynote. Dries shared personal stories, showed real working demos, and ended with a direct challenge to every person in the room. I want to walk you through the 10 things that stuck with me the most.

What is Drupal used for beyond standard websites? It is an enterprise content management framework designed for complex, authenticated, content-heavy platforms — the kind where thousands of users log in daily, access role-specific content, and navigate structured information across multiple languages. Government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and international organizations choose Drupal precisely because its architecture solves problems that simpler CMSs cannot handle. If you are evaluating CMSs, our breakdown of 13 reasons why Drupal is the best CMS for developers and IT teams provides a complementary technical perspective.

Integrating AI with Drupal content creation works well for text fields, but taxonomy mapping remains a significant challenge. AI extracts concepts using natural language, while Drupal taxonomies require exact predefined terms and the two rarely match. This article explores why common approaches like string matching and keyword mapping fail, and presents context injection as a production-proven solution that leverages AI’s semantic understanding to select correct taxonomy terms directly from the prompt.

Switching from WordPress to Drupal raises many concerns. Will the migration be too complicated? Will I find equivalents for the tools I use every day? In this article, I compare five of the most important WordPress tools with their Drupal counterparts: Custom Post Types, ACF, WP Query, WP Forms, and Page Builders like Elementor. For each one, I show what working in Drupal looks like with real examples and a live demo in Drupal CMS. After reading this post, you’ll see that Drupal isn’t hard at all, and concepts familiar from WordPress translate to Drupal almost one-to-one. Feel free to read the article or watch the episode from the Nowoczesny Drupal series.

Handling multiple domains within a single CMS is a challenge many organizations face. Choosing the right architecture at the start of a project can save significant time and money. Drupal offers three proven approaches: multisite, Domain Access, and headless CMS. In this article, I'll compare their strengths and weaknesses, show real-world implementation examples, and help you decide which approach works best for different business scenarios. I invite you to read the post or watch an episode from the series Nowoczesny Drupal.

AI Automators transforms complex AI workflows from code to configuration. This case study reveals how BetterRegulation built production-grade AI workflows processing 200+ documents monthly with 95%+ accuracy – using multi-step chains, background queues, and admin-managed prompts. No custom integration code required.

Information gathering, content writing, proofreading, SEO optimization, tag preparation – all these tasks consume a significant portion of the editorial team’s time. What if you could reduce this research time by up to 90% through automated content creation? In this article, I present a practical Drupal setup that uses AI-powered modules to generate editorial content with minimal manual input. This includes automatic information retrieval based on the title, tag generation, content creation, and detailed data fetching – all directly in your CMS, without switching between different tools. Read on or watch the episode from the Nowoczesny Drupal series.

AI document processing is transforming content management in Drupal. Through integration with AI Automators, Unstructured.io, and GPT models, editorial teams can automate tedious tasks like metadata extraction, taxonomy matching, and summary generation. This case study reveals how BetterRegulation implemented AI document processing in their Drupal 11 platform, achieving 95%+ accuracy and 50% editorial time savings.

Which hosting to select for Drupal? This is one of the most frequently asked questions among people starting their work with this CMS. In this article, I'll explain what to pay attention to when choosing Drupal hosting and provide a brief overview of available options – based on 15 years of experience implementing Drupal for clients from Poland and abroad. I invite you to read the post or watch the [ from the Nowoczesny Drupal series.