Read one developer’s story about navigating the stormy waters of developing websites for colleges and universities for more than a decade.

The web was born in the world of higher education and research institutions. Starting first as a tool for sharing information among researchers and educators, it has expanded in the three decades to connect to practically every portion of our lives.

In this post, we break down how to set up and configure Autopilot. Dive in to learn more. 

This post was updated in January 2024.

Imagine you could build a site in hours instead of days. Now, imagine you could use Slack for that. WebMD Ignite, a division of WebMD and Internet Brands, has the future of SaaS healthcare at its fingertips. 

At Pantheon, we do our best to make building, launching and maintaining a Drupal or WordPress site as easy as possible. All sites on our platform get the same PHP and MySQL configurations tuned for their applications. Every site has Varnish sitting out front to provide speed and protection against surging traffic. Our Dev/Test/Live workflow helps ensure only quality code makes it to production. Multidev allows teams to work on new features in isolation. And database backups are very easy to move around between environments.

Website relaunch. Two of the most terrifying words in all of marketing.

I am extremely passionate about this topic. I’ve worked with thousands of website teams and personally suffered through hundreds of relaunches. They are time-consuming, budget-depleting, all-encompassing efforts that inflate expectations but often fall flat in terms of results. They can leave wreckage in their wake: burnt out teams, reduced credibility and sometimes even empty chairs around the table. I know there’s a better way—the agile way.

When working on Drupal 8 theming, it is very helpful to have Twig debug mode on. Debug mode will cause twig to emit a lot of interesting information about which template generated each part of the page. The instructions for enabling debug mode can be found within the comments of the default.services.yml file, among other sources. In short, all you need is the following in your services.yml file:
 
parameters:
  twig.config:

I’m happy to announce the release of a supported Command Line Interface (CLI) for the Pantheon platform. It’s free, open-source, built on Drush, and available on GitHub:

https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus

In a nutshell, Terminus allows you to do anything you can in the Pantheon dashboard from a terminal: