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For a staging site, it's important to exclude crawlers. You wouldn't want your content to get indexed at the wrong URL! The conventional wisdom is to use HTTP Basic authentication. There are some disadvantages to this approach however, and I've found I prefer using a new HTTP header called X-Robots-Tag. Note that this assumes your only objective is to prevent indexing by benevolent crawlers. If you do need to keep secrets this method is obviously unsuitable. Read More…

Cap has made our deployments simple, fast, and reliable. However, it can only access services you yourself have access to. Establishing this access for the first time can be a bit of a trick. Read More…

I recently received an email regarding the launch of the Drupal Marketplace (thanks Megan!), where you get yourself listed if you're a Drupal service provider. Here's the email: Read More…

Update: Use this module Old Method: Views can be very handy, but the views interface can be a little tricky. A question that comes up when training clients is "Why can't I edit this content?" when they are looking at a view. If you use the node row style, Views will add them for you but not if you use the fields style. You can surely explain how views work (results may vary depending on the client), but an even easier method is to create edit links that link directly to your content and use a little CSS/jQuery to make sure it's shown when and where it's needed. Using this method creates a handy little gear button when you roll over the content, with a link that says "Edit Content" when you click on it. Read More…