My LocalGov Drupal contributions for October 2025

Code Contributions

1. We've had a PR open for a few weeks trying to amend the default content listing view to show some new fields (easy) and an exposed filter for the person who last updated the content, rather than the original author (not so easy). We seem to have it working now.
2. We've another PR open for a while to get our templates to use our new grid layout. I got some more templates added to this now, so hopefully we're nearly ready to merge it.
3. While working on those new templates, I realised that the library for the "One Col Flexible" is not actually doing anything. It just targets a CSS class that doesn't exist in the template it is working on. So I created a PR to remove that library (and hopefully we can follow up by removing the template itself as well).
4. I (finally, I hope) have publications ready to work with microsites. Go me!
5. But of course, that's opened up the possibility for some improvements in other places where we are placing blocks in LocalGov Microsites, but trying to figure out exactly what we needed to do became a little bit too much for my brain this month.
6. In an effort to move from LocalGov Sa11y to LocalGov Editoria11y (or at least to allow LocalGov Sa11y to be uninstalled), I created a few PRs (1 and 2) to remove the dependency on LocalGov Sa11y.
7. An issue that has bugged me for a long time - when you install LGD and the Demo Content module the homepage redirects to /localgov-demo-site. The issue moved from microsites to localgov_core to localgov_demo content module. And now I have a PR - at last - to fix it. The only issue is the PR presumes that the demo content module is being installed on a fresh site with no other content ... so I'll have to think about making that a bit more scalable.
8. I'm not a fan of the Docs and GitHub links being placed in the main nav in the Demo Content module, so I created a PR to add "News" and "Events" instead, and then create a footer menu to add to the housekeeping region with links for Docs, GitHub, LinkedIn, and Bluesky.
9. The LocalGov Editoria11y module isn't quite there with a stable 1.0.0 release, so I spent some time working on that and think we are in a position to now release a 1.0.0 release (or at least are very close to it). All of the issues are now either closed, or have working MRs ready to be tested.
10. Lee has been doing great work on coding standards and automated tests. With Drupal moving towards strict types for PHP, he has been updating all our modules. This month, I decided to jump with with a help on the LocalGov Workflows module and LocalGov Services module.
11. And when I created the PRs for LocalGov Workflows, that showed up coding standards issues with our JS, so I fixed that too, and while I was at it I also rewrote the whole file to remove its dependency on jQuery and use modern JavaScript instead.
12. After nearly 5 years of working on LocalGov Base, I've only just now realised that our Site Slogan in our Branding block is not placed inside the same .branding container as the rest of the branding block, breaking out BEM naming pattern. I have a PR to fix that ready now.
13. When using a "Call Out Box" component, if you don't have a call to action in it, we are printing an empty link element, but even worse that element is styled so we are printing an empty box on the page. Thanks to Maria for posting the issue. I have a PR ready to fix it.
14. While doing some training recently with Blackburn with Darwen council, we were looking at the icon component and how to use custom icons in our themes. That showed me that the inline documentation we have (available variables, schema definition, etc) is a little bit lacking. I've created a PR to bring that up to our usual high standards.
15. I'm a sucker for linters and automating boring work like fixing coding standards. While training with Blackburn with Darwen recently we noticed Drupal core's linting system is using updated packages that we are no yet using. Fix is ready in this PR.
16. With the linters working again, I did a little tidy up on LocalGov Alert Banner and a little tidy up on LocalGov Directories and a little tidy up on LocalGov Step-by-Step.
17. And then for a bonus, I also fixed the CSS stylelint issues on LocalGov Step-by-Step.
18. I created an issue and a PR back in April this year to add a listing of where each paragraph is used on the website. That PR had some issues, which I have now fixed, but also added in some extra features (enable the view on existing sites, add secondary tabs so it's easy to find, etc).
19. GitPod is no more, so here's a PR to remove it from our setup.