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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...
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The Drupal Simplify Module is a big help removing cruft from the eyes of the administrator in the Drupal UI. Simplify allows you to hide certain fields from the user interface on a global basis, or...
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The first line of the description of the Drupal Theme Developer Module says that it is "Firebug for Drupal themeing". I couldn't agree more. This is the ultimate tool when you need to find out whic...
Read more about Dude, Where are my Templates? Using the Drupal 7 Theme Developer to find the way.
The Global Redirect module ensures that we will have the best possible technical output from Drupal for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It is available for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7, and it looks lik...
Read more about Essential Drupal: Global Redirect Module
We can easily checkout code from our git repositories for our local, development, and staging servers. We can get a database from the live site through Backup and Migrate, drush, or a number of oth...
Read more about Essential Drupal: Stage File Proxy