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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...
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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...
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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...
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Site builders and front end themers rejoice at the greatness of the Drupal Style Guide module. This module creates a page on your Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 site, displaying all the common html elements,...
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There was a time when search engine bots would come to your site, index the words on the page, and continue on. Those days are long past. Earlier this year, we witnessed Google's ability to determi...
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The super smart lead developer at Xeno Media first brought the Cloudflare service to my attention as it was integrated with one of the hosts we were using. We experimented with a site that was expe...
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Rare is the site where the user who logs in, and needs to end up on their User page. This is the default behavior of Drupal. It makes sense if you are making a community or social media type websit...
Read more about Login Destination: Sending us where we need to go!
Most of us have been using the Features module for configuration management in Drupal 7 for years now. This is not what the module was originally intended for, but it has allowed us to move variabl...
Read more about Manage Drupal 7 Configurations using Features built with Features Builder