DrupalCamp Scotland 2025 Recap: Automation, UX, and Real-World Drupal Use Cases

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Hashbang Code shared a detailed blog post recapping DrupalCamp Scotland 2025, which took place on November 7 at the University of Edinburgh, with around 60 attendees participating in a day of talks, collaboration, and community engagement.

The event opened with a session by Paul McCrodden and Laura Waldoch on consolidating over 500 diverse university sites into a unified Drupal 11 platform. The team from the University of Cambridge emphasised automation to streamline migrations, manage roles, and maintain consistency across sites. Other notable talks included Dan Champion’s look at LocalGov Drupal’s bin collection plugin and how it accommodates multiple API integrations, and a joint session from James South and Aaron McHale on simplifying the University of Edinburgh’s admissions site, which reduced pages by 57% and saw over 2.8 million visits since March.

Additional highlights included Joey Gartin’s discussion on object-oriented UX, Phil Norton’s live walkthrough of using Storybook with Single Directory Components in Drupal 11, and Gareth Alexander and Tony Barker’s presentation on contextual media challenges. The conference also featured sessions on developer education by Hilmar Kári Hallbjörnsson, client communication from Jochen Lillich, and a closing UX-oriented talk by Emma Horrell about Drupal CMS’s future. The day concluded with social time at The Pear Tree pub and appreciation for the organising team’s efforts.

Originally published by Hashbang Code. Read the full post here.

Reference: DrupalCamp Scotland 2025 by Philip Norton, #! code (Hash Bang Code) (23 November 2025)

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