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We are often tasked with entering content into the CMS' we build for our clients. Cleaning up the HTML of those documents is always a chore, no matter who puts them together. I figured out that I s...
Read more about Clean Up Google Docs' HTML Programmatically
If you're like me, your development and staging servers get larger and larger as time moves on. The end of the year break is the perfect time to get organized, archive projects that are no longer n...
Read more about Cleaning up your local Drupal installations for the New Year
Back in the olden times of the internet, we had really long static HTML pages. In order to make the page more organized, we would make a table of contents at the top, linked to the content below us...
Read more about Add an Anchor Menu/Table of Contents to Drupal 7
At first, I dismissed the need for yet another module. I have always added the Google Analytics code straight into a template file in various other CMS and static sites I have been involved in over...
Read more about Drupal 7: Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools Setup
Promoted to front page? Don't worry about that, we don't use it. That was the phrase I heard from a developer on the first site I was tasked to theme. I had asked what the "Promoted to front page"...
Read more about Drupal 7: Hide Sticky and Promote
Why would you want to import tweets into a Drupal site? For one, I want to own the content I create. Unlike other social media sites, Twitter allows great access to the content I create on their pl...
Read more about Drupal 7: Importing Tweets into Drupal using the Twitter Module
When choosing whether or not to have commenting on your site, one of the factors that I always discuss with clients is whether or not the site has a need for logged in users. If the site has users...
Read more about Drupal 7: Integrating Disqus Comments
At the time of this writing, just under 300,000 websites use the Drupal Backup and Migrate module. It is an great tool for moving databases from production back to staging and development servers,...
Read more about Drupal 7: Offsite Backups with Backup and Migrate
The Drupal Field Group module has been on my Essential Drupal list since I first learned about it, and with 200,000 installs, I am certainly not the only one. Field Group lets you add the common CC...
Read more about Drupal 7: Organizing with Field Group
I plan on doing a more in depth article on how I've been using Panels instead of templates or contexts for laying out this Drupal 7 site, but I feel like I still have more to learn. Until then, I w...
Read more about Drupal 7 Panels: Page Manager Existing Pages
By default, Page Manager has the User Profile Page (/user/user-id) and the User Edit Page (/user/user-id/edit), but there are a few user pages that are missing, most obvious will be the login page.
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The scheduling of posts was the first things I noticed that was missing from Drupal after moving over from Wordpress. Thanks to the Scheduler Module, we have that functionality back, with more cont...
Read more about Drupal 7: Scheduling Posts with Scheduler