Today we are talking about Drupal Advocacy, Non-Code Contribution, and the future with guest Tiffany Farriss. We'll also cover Better Social Sharing Buttons as our module of the week.
For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/575
Topics
- Tiffany New DA Role
- Sustaining Drupal Next 25
- Time Box And Priorities
- Three Bucket Strategy
- Fixing DA Finances
- Transparency And Trust
- Trust Through Transparency
- What Advocacy Solves
- Why Reputation Lags
- From Scattered To Focused
- Beyond The Drupal Bubble
- Problem First Storytelling
- Proof Over Promotion
- Scaling Non Code Contributions
- Funding Drupal Sustainability
- Success Metrics
Resources
Guests
Tiffany Farriss - association.drupal.org farriss
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Tim Sharp - tea-sharp
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to let visitors share your content on social media, without loading any tracking scripts or third-party JavaScript? There's a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Aug 2018 by Joery Lemmens (flyke), though recent releases are by Shelane French (shelane)
- Versions available: 5.0.0, which works with Drupal 10.1, 11, and 12
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, latest release in July, adding Drupal 12 support
- Security coverage
- Number of open issues: 17, 5 of which are bugs against older branches
- Usage stats:
- Module features and usage
- Supports 16 services, including Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Reddit, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email, plus handy extras like print and copy link
- Each button is just a plain link to that service's share URL, opening in a new tab. No trackers, no external API calls, no ad servers
- That's a nice win for performance, and for privacy and GDPR, since nothing third-party loads until a visitor actually clicks
- You can place it as a block, as a pseudo field on nodes or paragraphs, or call it from Twig with Twig Tweak
- The global settings form lets you enable services and drag them into order, and each block instance can override that list, the icon set, and the sizing
- The module comes with two icon sets: colored squares, which become round if you set the radius to 100%, or flat icons you can color with a CSS fill. The colored set also exposes CSS custom properties, so you can re-brand it from your theme
- The icons are minified SVGs in a single sprite, so they load once no matter how many buttons are on the page
- There's also a per-node submodule: enable it per content type, and editors with the right permission get a checkbox to turn sharing on or off for individual nodes
- Under the hood it's nearly all Twig, one template partial per service, with just a little JavaScript for copy link, print, and Bluesky. Copy link even uses an aria-live region to announce the confirmation to screen readers
- The block uses the current page's URL and title, so it works on user and term pages too, while the field version shares the node's own URL and title
- Developers can tweak what gets shared with an alter hook on the block's items
- Caveats: Facebook Messenger needs a Facebook App ID, and Metatag is recommended so services get proper Open Graph previews, and if a service changes its share URL format, the module needs an update
- Back in episode #548 we covered Social Media Links, and the two look similar: both give you a block of social network icons, with a choice of icon sets. But they solve opposite problems. Social Media Links is "follow us": it links out to your own profiles, using URLs you configure in the block or a field. Better Social Sharing Buttons is "share this": it builds each link on the fly from the current page's title and URL. So plenty of sites could use both
