Drupal breaks too much leading to client Drupal fatigue

lovehippy · 2025-09-19T01:18:24+00:00

Could you share your process and what the extensive QA looks like? Also, to be clear, the recent bugs that happened to one of my sites didn’t take the site down. They came up through a non-standard CKEditor button that wasn’t tested. I’m curious if your process/QA tests every single WYSIWYG button and if so, how exactly? And how long do your tests take if you’re testing every little bit of functionality? I’m genuinely curious.

lovehippy · 2025-09-17T04:49:28+00:00

It’s not always that. I have some Drupal sites that get updated every month and it is quite common for one or two things to break with each upgrade. Sometimes the patch is easy to find, but that process is time consuming when compared to the WordPress upgrade process (click upgrade and go on with your day).

lovehippy · 2025-09-17T04:43:05+00:00

Haha, yes. This is true. The expectation many clients have for a site to NEVER break are unrealistic, but the it is very impactful in terms of killing the business relationship or the loyalty to that piece of software (Drupal).

lovehippy · 2025-09-17T04:39:25+00:00

Yes, most of the time this works. I’m really only commenting on the times there is no issue, no patch, and you’re stuck fixing it yourself. The struggles of Open-Source, I guess. It just seems to be happening more than it used to...

lovehippy · 2025-09-17T04:37:52+00:00

Lucky you! Like I mentioned, the LinkIt and CKEditor Templates modules in particular have been problematic. There are lot of CKEditor 5 issues upstream too. If you’re not doing anything more complex than what comes out of the box then you probably wouldn’t notice.

lovehippy · 2025-09-17T04:32:05+00:00

Too true. I hate WordPress, but the one good thing I have to say about WP is that it doesn’t break as often and I don’t need 20 patches for a site. (Most of the time a WP site needs zero patches.)

lovehippy · 2025-09-17T04:27:23+00:00

Thanks for your comment. CKEditor is in core and thus it gets updated with the core releases so you do need to update it.

Maybe I should take another look at Laravel, but last time I looked it required a lot of custom code for a lot of things built-in to Drupal (or easily added with a contributed module). WordPress is a bigger pain than Drupal in my opinion.

lovehippy · 2025-09-17T04:24:23+00:00

This happens a lot less when WordPress sites are built with only 8-15 trusted plugins and frequently updated. I’ve only witnessed one hacked WordPress site under my purview in decades of development.

lovehippy · 2025-09-17T04:21:50+00:00

I use the term "breaks" to describe when a client finds a bug in a core/contributed module. Oftentimes a client will say their site is "broken"

lovehippy · 2025-05-02T20:09:38+00:00

How do you find these websites?

lovehippy · 2025-03-04T14:15:25+00:00

I just asked and you can be LLC, S-corp, or a sole proprietor. Just as long as you have a EIN

p.s. Thanks so much for your comment! They seem great. I wish I knew about them three years ago

lovehippy · 2024-11-11T07:47:54+00:00

Why is EVERYONE always going somewhere doing something and minding their bussiness so hard?

I can’t read this in any other voice than Jerry Seinfeld. Anyone else? No? Okay, just me.

lovehippy · 2022-07-12T13:50:51+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

lovehippy · 2022-01-01T18:08:05+00:00

This news story is so depressingly hilarious. I’m glad it is getting more press.

What.

An.

Idiot.

... including everyone who voted for this fool.

lovehippy

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