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Theming the HTML select to look consistent across browsers is a task unto itself. Here's a CSS-only approach applied to an exposed filter on a view.
Read more about Styling Views exposed-filter selects in Drupal 8
One Paragraph bundle that renders a 2-, 3-, 4-, or 6-column layout, each column able to hold any of the bundles you define.
Read more about A multi-column content section with Drupal Paragraphs and Bootstrap
Holistic SEO is where content, marketing, technical best practices, performance, security, and user intent come together to make the ideal URL on a given topic.
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I read a lot about Drupal and the web, but I learn even more when I listen. A big list of Drupal podcasts to subscribe to for the commute or the treadmill.
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Teaching myself Drupal 8 theming from an empty folder on top of core's Stable theme, and getting the Bootstrap Navbar working far more simply than in Drupal 7.
Read more about A Bootstrap Navbar in Drupal 8 with four easy template changes
I am working on a site where the client requested that the Library tab be the first tab in the Media module's File browser pop up. While this is a seemingly simple request, it is one that I have ne...
Read more about Changing the Order of Drupal 7 Media Module File Browser Tabs
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