Drupal guides

Failure-mode guides for Drupal sites, organized by topic.

Fatal errors, white screens, memory exhaustion, and the silent failures that leave your site broken without warning.

Missed schedules, dead hooks, queue workers that stop, and how to know cron is actually running.

Security

6 guides

Brute force, integrity changes, privilege escalation — attack patterns and audit signals.

Email Delivery

1 guide

wp_mail failures, SMTP problems, contact-form leads that never arrive.

Database

3 guides

Connection errors, slow queries, deadlocks — finding the cause from logs.

Performance

2 guides

TTFB, cache hit ratio, slow admin — performance problems that hide in plain sight.

Abuse & Scraping

4 guides

Bot traffic, scraping, enumeration — separating real users from resource-eaters.

Operations

9 guides

Plugin auto-updates, config drift, multisite isolation — operational signals you should be watching.

Drupal blocks rearranged unexpectedly — detecting bulk block placement changes
You open the homepage and the right sidebar is gone. The newsletter block has moved from sidebarfirst to footerfourth. Three CTA blocks that…
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Drupal config import (drush cim) failed — how to diagnose ConfigImportException
You ran drush cim -y on staging or production, expecting the usual quiet success, and the terminal threw it back at you.…
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Drupal content published without going through moderation — detecting workflow bypass
A node went live this morning that nobody on the editorial team approved. The byline is correct, the body looks fine, the /node/4821 URL res…
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Drupal deployment regression — correlating the deploy event with the five things that follow
The deploy went green. Five minutes later the site is broken. You're staring at the standard sequence: a CI pipeline that ended with drush d…
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Drupal log noise — filtering watchdog to find real problems
You went to /admin/reports/dblog to investigate a single 500 error a user reported, and the page gave you 47,000 entries from the last 24 ho…
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Drupal module installed without your knowledge — building an audit trail
You open /admin/modules and a row catches your eye. A module you do not recognize is enabled. Maybe a generic name like Admin Tools or Field…
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Drupal redirect loop after content edit — detecting accidental cycles before users hit the redirect chain
A content editor renamed a node URL twenty minutes ago. Now users hitting /services/onboarding see Chrome's ERRTOOMANYREDIRECTS and Firefox'…
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Drupal taxonomy term deletion silently 404'd half the site — detecting destructive vocabulary edits
A content editor opened /admin/structure/taxonomy/manage/tags/overview yesterday afternoon, decided the tags vocabulary was "messy," and del…
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Drupal views being modified — change-tracking your views
A content editor opens the homepage and the "Latest articles" block is empty. Or it shows the wrong content type. Or the pager is gone. Or r…
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