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Dec 02 2011
Dec 02
For a lot of my recent projects I have used the Omega theme as the base theme, I love the whole responsive design support and grid system. But when you create a Panels page and choose a layout you don’t get the same grid support as you do with Omega. Panels outputs its own grid … Continue reading "Custom grid panels layout with Omega theme"
Sep 22 2011
Sep 22
Update: I have written an updated version of this series over athttp://webwash.net. The updated version covers Display Suite 7.x-2.x. Configuring Layouts with Display Suite in Drupal 7 Handling View Modes and Regions with Display Suite in Drupal 7 This post is part of a Display suite series, Display suite part 1: Layouts and Styles andDisplay … Continue reading "Display suite part 2: View modes and fields"
Sep 11 2011
Sep 11
Update: I have written an updated version of this series over athttp://webwash.net. The updated version covers Display Suite 7.x-2.x. Configuring Layouts with Display Suite in Drupal 7 Handling View Modes and Regions with Display Suite in Drupal 7 The Display suite is a powerful module which allows you to customise the node view page without … Continue reading "Display suite part 1: Layouts and Styles"
Jul 01 2011
Jul 01
The Field Slideshow makes it easy to create a slideshow from just an image field. With Fields in core for Drupal 7 we also got a more powerful display formatters for fields. Fields now ship with their own formatter settings forms and make it really easy to change the display of a field, and Field … Continue reading "Create a slideshow using the Field Slideshow module"
May 25 2011
May 25
Using the GeoIP module with Context GeoIP module, it makes it really easy to create a context which has a specific condition to only display a block if your IP location is from a particular country. Furthermore GeoIP has a powerful API to pull out location information. In this article I’ll show you how to … Continue reading "How to use GeoIP & Context GeoIP module"
Apr 29 2011
Apr 29
Update: This tutorial is out-of-date. Please go to Search API’s getting started page for up-to-date documentation. The Search API is a Drupal 7 search framework module. It allows you to create custom search pages on any URL and integrates with a few search backends. In this article I’ll show you how to setup Search API … Continue reading "How to setup Search API with Apache Solr"
Mar 30 2011
Mar 30
The backup and migrate module is an awesome module that you can use to create a MySQL dump file. You can use it to schedule database backups to the server filesystem, remote FTP server or even an amazon s3 bucket. In this post I’ll demonstrate how to setup a scheduled backup to a remote FTP … Continue reading "Backup to a remote FTP using the Backup and Migrate module"
Mar 21 2011
Mar 21
When I upgraded zugec.com to Drupal 7 I had to find another syntax highlighter because the previous one that I used in Drupal 6 was GeSHi but this module hadn’t been upgraded to Drupal 7 at the time. I searched around and found Syntax Highlighter module which uses the SyntaxHighlighter library. In this post I’ll … Continue reading "How to use the Syntax Highlighter module in Drupal 7"
Aug 18 2010
Aug 18
When you get an editor asking how they can manage content on a Drupal site, sometimes you just can’t send them to admin/content/node page to manage the site. Maybe you only want certain editors to manage only certain content types. With the Views 2 module it’s easy to create custom administration pages. When I say … Continue reading "Create administration pages with Views 2"
Jul 10 2010
Jul 10
On some Drupal sites having the taxonomy links point to the “taxonomy/term/tid” can really break the design of a site. Sometimes you want to redirect the user to a custom views page instead of the standard taxonomy page. Using the Taxonomy Redirect module it’s relatively easy to change the taxonomy URL. To install Taxonomy Redirect … Continue reading "Redirect taxonomy term links to a views page"

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