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    <title>Savas Labs</title>
    <description>We craft elegant Drupal web systems that propel organizations.
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        <title>How to transition your website from HTTP to HTTPS</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/https2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image endorsing move to HTTPS from HTTP&quot; &gt;
            
            How to move from serving your site over HTTP to HTTPS. Spoiler alert: there are some easy ways to do this with various Drupal hosting options. A quick read for guidance.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2018/08/01/how-to-move-to-https.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2018/08/01/how-to-move-to-https.html</link>
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        <title>Why your website needs HTTPS</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/https.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image endorsing move to HTTPS from HTTP&quot; &gt;
            
            There are many considerations for site owners on when to make the move to HTTPS. Google has just stepped up the pressure. Secure communication is especially important for Drupal site owners and the time to make the move to HTTPS is now.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2018/06/26/why-you-need-https.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2018/06/26/why-you-need-https.html</link>
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        <title>Updating Drupal 8 core via Composer</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/composer-drupal-8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Composer and Drupal 8 working together&quot; &gt;
            
            Updating Drupal 8 core with Composer has proven to be a problematic process
for many developers and has caused some to abandon the platform entirely,
opting to stick with Drupal 7. Having updating our own Drupal 8 sites many
times now, we've compiled some notes on how to use Composer to update core
and what to do when issues arise.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2018/03/25/updating-drupal-8-via-composer.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2018/03/25/updating-drupal-8-via-composer.html</link>
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        <title>The cost of investing in Drupal 7 - why it's time for Drupal 8</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/drupal-8-outweighs-7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Drupal 8 outweighing Drupal 7 on a scale&quot; &gt;
            
            In the second of a two-part series, we investigate Drupal 8's present value and help highlight sometimes hidden costs of developing on an older platform.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2017/11/08/cost-of-drupal-7.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2017/11/08/cost-of-drupal-7.html</link>
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        <title>Drupal 8 turns 2. Are you taking advantage of it yet?</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/drupal-7-outweighs-8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Drupal 7 outweighs Drupal 8 in 2016&quot; &gt;
            
            Drupal 8 has been around for almost two years. In the first of a two-part series, we take a look at how successful Drupal 8 has been. In the second, we'll investigate its future value and the cost of developing on older platforms.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2017/10/27/drupal-8-turns-2.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2017/10/27/drupal-8-turns-2.html</link>
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        <title>Five Drupal 8 Tips to Empower Content Authors</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/content-authoring-d8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Five Drupal 8 Tips to Empower Content Authors&quot; &gt;
            
            Creating and publishing quality content within time constraints is a common challenge for many content authors. As web engineers, we are focused on helping our clients overcome this challenge by delivering systems that are intuitive, stable, and a pleasure to operate.

Customizing the user experience for content authors is a critical component that site architects must implement in order to establish and maintain client satisfaction. Drupal 8 makes it easier for digital agencies to empower content creators and editors with the right tools to get the job done efficiently.

Here are five tips in Drupal 8 that make the content authoring experience more enjoyable and productive.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2017/03/06/five-drupal-8-tips-to-empower-content-authors.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2017/03/06/five-drupal-8-tips-to-empower-content-authors.html</link>
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        <title>Docker and the Drupal Pattern Lab Starter Theme</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/docker-drupal-pattern-lab.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Docker Drupal 8 Pattern Lab logos on a circuited background&quot; &gt;
            
            How to build a Docker Pattern Lab image for local Drupal development with the Pattern Lab Starter theme and/or with other common front-end applications such as npm, Gulp, and Bower.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2017/02/20/drupal-docker-pattern-lab.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2017/02/20/drupal-docker-pattern-lab.html</link>
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        <category>docker</category>
        
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        <title>Dramatically Improve MySQL Import Performance with Docker</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/sea-ocean-boats-port.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Docker, ships, the sea&quot; &gt;
            
            A tutorial to show how you can use data volume restore for MySQL on Drupal Docker stacks to dramatically improve import performance with notes on how to integrate this with your development and continuous integration workflow.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2017/02/15/docker-mysql-performance.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2017/02/15/docker-mysql-performance.html</link>
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        <category>continuous-integration</category>
        
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        <title>Using MailChimp API v3.0 to subscribe users to email lists in Drupal custom modules</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/mailchimp_3_drupal_composer_3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sheet music&quot; &gt;
            
            A tutorial that shows you how to use Composer and ThinkShout's new PHP library for MailChimp API v3.0 to easily subscribe users to mailing lists in Drupal custom modules without using the MailChimp contributed module. This is a follow-up to a previous post that used the old API, and also includes some new Drupal 8 specifics.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2016/11/15/composer-mailchimp-subscriptions-v3-api.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2016/11/15/composer-mailchimp-subscriptions-v3-api.html</link>
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        <category>drupal</category>
        
        <category>drupal-planet</category>
        
        <category>composer</category>
        
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        <title>Supercharged SEO with Drupal 8</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/supercharged-seo-with-drupal-8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Supercharged SEO with Drupal 8&quot; &gt;
            
            SEO trends 2017 and an in depth look at Drupal 8's new features that make Drupal the best option for your long-term marketing campaign.
                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2016/09/23/supercharged-seo-with-drupal-8.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/p&gt;
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2016/09/23/supercharged-seo-with-drupal-8.html</link>
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        <category>drupal8</category>
        
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        <title>Using XHProf to profile your Drupal module</title>
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            Second part in a series of how to use XHProf effectively within a VM for a Drupal website.
                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2016/06/16/using-xhprof.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2016/06/16/using-xhprof.html</link>
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        <title>Installing XHProf to profile your Drupal module</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/xhprof-callgraph.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;an XHProf callgraph&quot; &gt;
            
            First part in a series of how to use XHProf effectively within a VM for a Drupal website.
                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2016/05/26/installing-xhprof.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2016/05/26/installing-xhprof.html</link>
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        <title>Drupal 6 retires today, now what? Part 4: Upgrade to D7 or D8?</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/retirement.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;a retirement sign at the beach&quot; &gt;
            
            Part 4 of a series investigating what options you have with your Drupal 6 site as EOL has now come. We discuss whether Drupal 7 or Drupal 8 make sense for your site.
                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2016/02/24/drupal-6-part-4.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2016/02/24/drupal-6-part-4.html</link>
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        <title>It actually is 2016, your site is running on Drupal 6, now what? Part 3: the options</title>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/options.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;a highway-looking sign with arrows pointing to many possibilities&quot; &gt;
            
            Part 3 of a series investigating what options you have with your Drupal 6 site as EOL approaches. We discuss what your options really are given the many difficult decisions you are likely faced given your organization's budget, level of risk and tolerance for it, and other business priorities.
                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2016/01/25/drupal-6-part-3.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2016/01/25/drupal-6-part-3.html</link>
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        <title>How to subscribe users to MailChimp lists in a Drupal custom module</title>
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            A demonstration on how to use Composer Manager and the MailChimp PHP library to simply and easily subscribe users to mailing lists without using the MailChimp contributed module.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2016/01/22/composer-mailchimp-subscriptions.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2016/01/22/composer-mailchimp-subscriptions.html</link>
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        <category>drupal-planet</category>
        
        <category>composer</category>
        
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        <title>It's nearly 2016, your site is running on Drupal 6, now what? Part 2: the risks.</title>
        <description>
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              &lt;img src=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/assets/img/blog/crossed-out-angel.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Crossed out angel&quot; &gt;
            
            Part 2 of a series investigating what to do with your Drupal 6 site as
EOL approaches. This post takes a deep dive into the risks specifically.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2015/12/10/drupal-6-part-2.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2015/12/10/drupal-6-part-2.html</link>
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        <title>It's nearly 2016, your site is running on Drupal 6, now what? Part 1: The overview</title>
        <description>
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                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2015/11/24/drupal-6-upgrade.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2015/11/24/drupal-6-upgrade.html</link>
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        <title>Drupalized Web Mapping @ NACIS 2015</title>
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                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2015/11/05/drupal-web-mapping.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2015/11/05/drupal-web-mapping.html</link>
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        <title>Sassy Drupal theming: a lighter version of SMACSS</title>
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            It takes some forethought, but a well-organized theme means code that is modular and easy to maintain or pass off to another developer. SMACSS principles are becoming more and more widespread and can be applied to a Drupal theme. At Savas Labs we've picked out what we love from SMACSS and simplified the rest, creating a stylesheet organization method that works for us. In this post (part 2 of my three-part series on Drupal theming with Sass) I'll go through our version of SMACSS and link to real examples.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2015/08/28/sassy-drupal-theming-part-2.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2015/08/28/sassy-drupal-theming-part-2.html</link>
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        <title>Sassy Drupal theming: Setting up Bourbon and Neat</title>
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            When Savas Labs built a custom Drupal 8 theme, we needed to include a grid framework and chose Bourbon's Neat for its ease of use, its light weight, and the library of useful Sass mixins provided by Bourbon. In this post I detail how to set all of this up and use Compass to compile SCSS.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2015/08/21/sassy-drupal-theming-part-1.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2015/08/21/sassy-drupal-theming-part-1.html</link>
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        <title>When Drupal database sanitization isn't enough</title>
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            One of the most embarrassing and potentially costly things we can do as developers is to send emails out to real people unintentionally from a development environment. It happens, and often times we aren't even aware of it until the damage is done and a background process sends out, say, 11,000 automated emails to existing customers (actually happened to a former employer recently). In the Drupal world, there are [myriad ways](https://github.com/chrisarusso/Tilthy-Rich-Compost-Website/commit/64a558e2) to [attempt to address](https://github.com/chrisarusso/Tilthy-Rich-Compost-Website/blob/master/scripts/sanitize.php) this problem.

We discuss how to use a drush hook on the `drush sqlsan` command to ensure proper sanitization while using the `user revision` module.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2015/08/04/user-revision-sanitize.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2015/08/04/user-revision-sanitize.html</link>
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        <title>Building a map in Drupal 8</title>
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            Adding a map to a Drupal 7 site is made easy by a variety of location storage and map rendering modules. However, at the time of this post most of these modules don't have an 8.x branch ready and therefore aren't usable in Drupal 8. Since Savas Labs has recently taken on a Drupal 8 mapping project, we decided to use the Leaflet library within a custom theme to render our map and the Views GeoJSON module to store our data.

In this post we'll add the Leaflet library to a custom theme using the new *.libaries.yml file, write a little Javascript to create our map, and pull in map points via a REST export view.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2015/07/06/map-in-drupal-8.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        </description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2015/07/06/map-in-drupal-8.html</link>
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        <category>drupal</category>
        
        <category>drupal8</category>
        
        <category>drupal-planet</category>
        
        <category>mapping</category>
        
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        <category>javascript</category>
        
        
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        <title>Implementing a CTools multi-step form in a block</title>
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            No one likes long forms. They're overwhelming to look at and it's easy to lose your place. Multi-step forms are a way to simplify data collection and make your users' lives easier.

Drupal's Form API combined with the CTools module provide a solid platform for building a multi-step form. There are [many wonderful guides](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ctools+multistep+form) on how to build a CTools multi-step form in Drupal. But as far as I can tell, all of the guides assume that the form will live on a page — which makes sense, as that's the most common use case.

On a recent project, though, a client asked us to create a multi-step form using only a block, so it could be placed on a page using Panels. It turns out this is pretty straightforward but as it's not well documented elsewhere, here's a quick guide to what you need to do. (Note: I created [an example module on GitHub](https://github.com/savaslabs/ctools_multistep_form_block), so please reference that as needed. This post is just covering the highlights.)

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2015/06/23/implementing-ctools-multi-step-form-block.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2015/06/23/implementing-ctools-multi-step-form-block.html</link>
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        <title>Drupal 8 Theming Basics</title>
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            Theming in Drupal 8 means a lot of changes for current Drupalers. These updates make Drupal more accessible to non-Drupalers and more modular, semantic, modern, and fun for everyone. Right now, documentation is scarce and often out-of-date, so I've collected all that I've learned while building my first Drupal 8 site.

Since most contributed base themes don't have an 8.x branch in a useable state at this point, Savas Labs created a custom theme based on Classy, Drupal's new base theme. I'll step through the process of creating a custom theme and walk through the basics of Twig and Twig debugging.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2015/06/10/d8-theming-basics.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2015/06/10/d8-theming-basics.html</link>
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        <category>theming</category>
        
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            In this post I explain how my team used Docker, Docker Compose, and Bowline to spin up consistent local dev environments on OS X as part of a Drupal 8 contrib module sprint.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2015/04/23/drupal-8-docker-bowline-setup.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/p&gt;
        </description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2015/04/23/drupal-8-docker-bowline-setup.html</link>
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        <category>osx</category>
        
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        <category>drupal8</category>
        
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        <title>Savas Labs supports the Drupal Association</title>
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            Drupal is a thriving FOSS project, and one of the main organizations moving it forward is the Drupal Association. Today, Savas Labs is proud to have become a supporting member of the Drupal Association.

                &lt;a href=&quot;https://savaslabs.com/2015/04/07/savas-supports-drupal-association.html&quot;&gt;Continue reading…&lt;/a&gt;
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        </description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://savaslabs.com/2015/04/07/savas-supports-drupal-association.html</link>
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