Paraphrasing Panels, Panelizer and Panopoly
I gave this session at CapitalCampDC, to shed some light on to these aspects of Drupal. Panels, Panelizer and Panopoly can seem a bit overwhelming but this session will go over the best features of...
View ArticleGeneric files Vs. Rendered files in Drupal
After you've been working with Drupal profiles for a while, the line between what functionality is a part of core Drupal and what comes from contributed modules tends to blur, but it is important to...
View ArticleProxying Cookies with Drupal
It's the minor things that get you into trouble sometimes. For instance, when I used drupal_http_request to do some proxying of content I ran into a little quirk of Drupal. If you get cookie headers...
View ArticleAdding a Relationship to Your View? Your Results Might be Different than you...
The Node Access system in Drupal provides a powerful way to provide granular access to individual nodes, but it can occasionally cause unexpected problems.Consider a case I ran into the other day: I...
View ArticleHow to Create Front-end Edit Forms Using Gravity Forms
You may already know about Gravity Forms – the popular WordPress plugin for creating front-end input forms (typical use cases include contact forms, surveys, etc.). But what you may not know is that...
View ArticleManually Migrating Comments from Drupal to Disqus
Even if you've never heard of Disqus before, you've almost certainly seen it. With slick social integration, support for a variety of platforms (including WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, and Drupal) and a...
View ArticleIntroducing the Pane Module
There are a couple of scenarios we see on pretty much any Drupal-powered website we work on. The first and foremost among those is often that our client wants to, you know, actually be able to easily...
View Article5 Lessons Learned for Content Migration
This past fall I undertook my first content migration effort. This was to migrate an existing site from Expression Engine to Drupal 7. I immediately began looking at the Migrate module to learn it's...
View ArticleA Closer Look at Entity Forms
Almost every project we work on requires a method for capturing user information. In most cases we have a Contact form and in more general purposes the client requires additional forms for various...
View ArticleConditional Fields and Display Suite
As part of our normal Drupal process we use both Display Suite (DS) and Conditional Fields frequently. While building out a site I ran into a very strange issue, when I was trying to output a field...
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