Talking Drupal #479 - Drupal CMS Media Management

Today we are talking about Drupal CMS Media Management, How media
management has evolved, and Why managing our media is so
important with our guest Tony Barker. We’ll also cover URL Embed
as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/479
Topics

What do we mean by media management in Drupal CMS

How is it different from media in Drupal today

Why is media management important

How are you applying these changes to Drupal

What phase are you in

Will this be ready for Drupal CMS release in January

What types of advanced media will supported

Do you see it growing to replace some DAMs

Are there future goals

How did you get involved

How can people get involved

Resources

Track 15 Proposal for Media Management

Issue to publish research on other CMS and the questionnaire
results

Vision for media management
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal_cms/issues/3488393

Contributed module file upload field for media
https://www.drupal.org/project/media_widget and these related
modules

https://www.drupal.org/project/media_link

https://www.drupal.org/project/media_remote_embed



Slack: #starshot-media-management and #starshot

Drupal Core strategy for 2025-2028

Guests

Tony Barker - annertech.com tonypaulbarker
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Suzanne Dergacheva - evolvingweb.com pixelite
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted a simple way to insert oEmbed
content on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

URL Embed



Brief history

How old: created in Sep 2014 by the venerable Dave Reid,
though recent releases are by Mark Fullmer of the University
of Texas at Austin

Versions available: 2.0.0-alpha3 and 3.0.0-beta1, the
latter of which works with Drupal 10.1 or 11. That said, it
does declare a dependency on the Embed project, which
unfortunately doesn’t yet have a Drupal 11-ready release



Maintainership

Actively maintained

Security coverage technically, but needs a stable release

Test coverage

Documentation guide

Number of open issues: 63 open issues, 4 of which are
bugs against the current branch



Usage stats:

7,088 sites



Module features and usage

A content creator using this module only needs to provide
a URL to the content they want to embed, as the name suggests

The module provides both a CKEditor plugin and a
formatter for link fields. Note that you will also need to
enable a provided filter plugin for any text formats where
you want users to use the CKEditor button

Probably the critical distinction between how this module
works and other elements of the media system is that this
bypasses the media library, and as such is better suited to
“one off” uses of remote content like videos, social media
posts, and more

It’s also worth mentioning that the module provides a
hook to modify the parameters that will be passed to the
oEmbed host, for example to set the number of posts to return
from Twitter

I could definitely see this as a valuable addition to the
Event Platform that we’ve talked about previously on the
podcast, but the lack of a Drupal 11-ready release for the
Embed module is an obvious concern. So, if any of our
listeners want to take that on, it would be a valuable
contribution to the community