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Talking Drupal Newsletter 10/23/26

Talking Drupal

#575 - The Drupal Advocacy Program

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.

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

Module of the Week

by Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Better Social Sharing Buttons - Allows you to add social sharing buttons to your website.

This module generates a block, a node field, and a paragraph field so you can choose how and where you add social sharing buttons on your website.

Why yet another module for social sharing buttons? Because most or even all existing modules seem to make a lot of external calls, have tracker scripts, or even connect to ad servers. This is a clean solution without any of that bloatware.

Most social platforms have a sharing link you can use to share content. The buttons of this module directly open those links in a new tab without having to call any other api, service, website, or script. This provides for a very clean and fast bloatware free solution.

Upcoming Episodes

#576 - Inside & Outside Drupal AI with Scott Falconer. Recording October 27.

#577 - A Chat With Randal Schwartz. Recording November 3.

#578 - Talking with Nicky Pike. Recording November 10.

Submit your questions on the #TalkingDrupal channel on Drupal Slack.

Decimal Stars Field Formatter

New Module from Martin Anderson-Clutz

Decimal Stars displays any number field as a row of stars, with support for fractional values. A rating of 3.7 shows three full stars and a fourth star that is 70% filled.

Features

Decimal Stars provides a single field formatter, Decimal Star Rating (SVG & Microdata), for the core Number (decimal), Number (float), and Number (integer) field types. There is no new field type to add and no data to migrate. If your site already stores ratings in a number field, you can switch its display to stars in a few clicks.

  • Precise fractional ratings: stars are filled to the exact value stored, rather than being rounded to the nearest whole or half star.

  • Scales to your field: the number of stars comes from the field’s Maximum setting, so a 5-point, 10-point, or other scale works without extra configuration. Fields without a maximum use five stars.

  • Lightweight output: the stars are drawn with a CSS mask on a single element. There are no image files, icon fonts, or JavaScript, and the stars stay sharp at any size or screen resolution.

  • Structured data: each rating includes Schema.org Rating microdata (ratingValue, bestRating, and worstRating) that search engines can use for review rich results.

  • Accessible: a visible text label, such as “Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars”, accompanies the stars. The decorative stars themselves are hidden from screen readers.

  • Easy to theme: colors and sizes can be overridden in your theme’s CSS, and the markup is in a single Twig template you can override.

Typical use cases include editorial product or gear reviews, restaurant and venue reviews, aggregated scores imported from another system, and any content where an editor enters a rating such as 4.5 or 8.2 and wants it displayed visually.

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