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Media management has been identified as a priority in the last DrupalCon (New Orleans 2016). If we could have on Drupal 7 some contributed modules offering an unparalleled user experience for media management, Drupal 8 was still orphan not long ago for an equivalent solution. With the stable release of the Media Entity module, Drupal 8 now has a robust and scalable solution to offer its users a customized media management. Let's explore how to set up a media management on Drupal 8 with the Media Entity collection.

How to insert a contact form inside a content Drupal 8? Or on a specific page in a specific location ? By default, contact forms created have a dedicated page. But if we want to use them elsewhere. After some research, I almost thought I should write a few lines of code to create a specific Plugin.

But contact forms, like almost everything now in Drupal 8, are entities. Finally, place a contact form, or any other form besides, is a simplicity that had eluded me until now.

On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, the Drupal Security Team published an highly critical security advisory (reference SA-CORE-2014-005 (CVE-2014-3704)) in regard of a vulnerability discovered in the database abstraction API that allows to automatically sanitize the parameters of an SQL query and, therefore,prevent SQL injection attacks. In short, this vulnerability allows an anonymous attacker to compromise any Drupal 7 site by a SQL injection attack. Let's go back on the chronology of the event and try to learn some lesson from the discovery and the management of this security breach.

We continue to explore the possibilities offered by the Console module and will discover how to build a Drupal 8 block in a very little time, and then customize it to our needs.