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Quick Tip: Clean Up Your Drupal Modules Folder

by , Developer & Client Experience Advocate

Let's say you inherit a Drupal site and the modules folder looks like this: And being an organized dev, you'd rather it look like this: So you create a 'contrib', 'custom' and maybe a 'features' folder for good measure and move everything around. Then your site blows up and starts giving you errors all over the place. What happened? You pulled a shell game on your site, moving modules around and not telling it where to look. Read More…

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Another reason why developing for Drupal is more welcoming than WordPress

by , Web Developer

I think we've all heard a few things about how Drupal and WordPress compare to each other. One thing I haven't heard much about is the "please contribute, here's how" factor to Drupal and its modules and the lack of it in the WordPress community. This can be seen in the site for Drupal modules and the site hosting WordPress modules. Read More…

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PNW Drupal Summit Session: Calendaring with Drupal

by , Developer & Client Experience Advocate

Things You Can ( or Can't ) Do With the Full Calendar Module This session led by Tim Plunkett covered the kinds of things you can do with his Full Calendar module. Thanks to those who pointed out this is it's own module not a plugin. The dependencies are Views and the Date module. I was a few minutes late to this session, and the basic demonstration on getting it up and running was already finished, which leads me to believe that setting it up is a pretty smooth and easy process. Here are a few take aways from the session: Read More…

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Ranking Drupal Modules on Drupal.org

by , Front-End Architect / Fun Master

One of the biggest dilemmas I faced as a new Drupal developer was figuring out which module was the best to use in any given situation. Only when I finally got around some other Drupal developers did I get a real sense of which were good and which weren’t as good. The best indicator on the drupal.org site before that for me was the number of sites using it. Being a bit of a rebel, this rubs me wrong. Just because a few thousand sites are using it, doesn’t mean that it’s good, right? And what if a newer, better-developed module gets released? It would not pass that test. Read More…

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