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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...
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MidCamp 2016, the Midwest Drupal Camp was a roaring success. We had 36 Sessions and 1 keynote were spread across the University of Illinois at Chicago's Student Center West. All of the sessions wer...
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Sorry, the user name 'Super Incredibly Good Looking Jim' is already taken... I don't need another username. I really don't need another username on a site that I am not going to have a public profi...
Read more about No more usernames! Setting up Drupal 7 for Email Login
Views has long been one of the magic pieces that makes Drupal my CMS of choice. Views allows us to easily create queries of content in the UI, giving great power to the site builder. When you first...
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I have been on a performance kick lately, trying to optimize the delivery of caching and delivery of pages to users from Drupal. It seems like the biggest piece of every site I work on are the imag...
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MidCamp is returning to Chicago, Illinois on March 17th through the 20th, 2016. We will be returning to the University of Illinois at Chicago, this time, on the west side of the campus. MidCamp is...
Read more about Submit your sessions for Midcamp 2016 - Midwest Drupal Camp in Chicago
As you may have noticed, /sites/default/files can quickly become a pretty busy place in your Drupal installation. When creating image or file fields, we can add folders in the Drupal UI to organize...
Read more about Using CKFinder to organize image uploads by Content type in Drupal 7