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Drupal 7: Organizing with Field Group
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.
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Essential Drupal: Global Redirect Module
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 like they have been hard at work building it for Drupal 8.
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Drupal 7: Scheduling Posts with Scheduler
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 control over what and who can access it.
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Drupal 7: Offsite Backups with Backup and Migrate
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, and it is an essential tool for automatic backups of the database and files of the production server.
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Drupal 7: Simplify
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 configured for each node type, taxonomy, block, comment, or user.
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Drupal 7: Importing Tweets into Drupal using the Twitter Module
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 platform. Through their API, I can access all of my Tweets and Mentions for archiving and displaying on my own site.
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Drupal 7: Integrating Disqus Comments
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 who log in, Drupal core's commenting system is great and can be tweaked to fit pretty much every need.
If users don't need to have users log in, there are a few solutions for "outsourcing" your comment system
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Drupal 7: Hide Sticky and Promote
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" check box on the admin screen of a content type was what put it in the queue on the home page.
It turns out that most every home page our agency ever built in Drupal had more complex requirements than that sole checkbox allowed for.
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