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Drupal Ace: Now with Drupal 7!

Submitted by Drupalace

18 May 2013

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. – Walt Disney

It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants. — Author Unknown

Troubles. Adversity. These are the tests that wake us from complacency, allowing us to see the good around us. So it is, too, with the update from Drupal 6 to 7. Struggling through the update's attendant troubles, a Drupal user is rewarded in the end with a renewed appreciation of a true wonder of the Web:

WordPress.

But. While it's true that I've migrated a simple site or two to WordPress for learning purposes, it would hardly be kosher for a site called Drupal Ace to run on a platform sans pointy-headed mascot. So. After much delay and hesitant tests, I've finally moved this site to Drupal 7. And it works!...

...sort of. Here's a very shortened look at some roadblocks I hit, and some of the weirdness that remains in the D7 site: Read more about Drupal Ace: Now with Drupal 7!

Gathering up the questions: the Drupal Ace Question Bank

Submitted by Drupalace

3 Dec 2007

I've started gathering up my many Drupal questions, whether from this site, from the Drupal.org forums, or elsewhere, into a single list. I hope that this will be of use to Drupalites – especially the hapless one that needs help the most, me.

I'd like this to become true Q&A, though it's starting with lots of Q and little A. Many of my questions remained unanswered. If you can help out with those, the many blessings of the Drop-Headed One will be upon you. In any case, I have many, many questions still to input, so please check in often. Read more about Gathering up the questions: the Drupal Ace Question Bank

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Question: How to encourage readers to share content?

Submitted by Drupalace

14 Oct 2007

Here's a question I posted to the Drupal.org forums at http://drupal.org/node/183302 . I'd love to see an answer, so will ask it to Drupalace.com readers as well:

I am creating a new site whose topic will encourage readers to "share" specific pages' content with other people, by means such as:

* forwarding the page content to others
* pasting the page content into email (or into other sites' forums, comments, etc.)
* pasting the page URL into email (or into other sites' forums, comments, etc.) Read more about Question: How to encourage readers to share content?

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Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 7

Submitted by Drupalace

11 Sep 2007

Continued from the previous quintet of installments: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site.

http://www.squidoo.com/blogstarter

This time, a change of pace: I'll look back at all the past Checklist suggestions I undertook, implemented, or otherwise subjected myself to, and report on results.

Yes, results! That's what makes the world go round. Results put the spin in the globe, the worm in the tequila, the... uh... the drupe in Drupal... Read more about Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 7

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Online Finds: Custom search forms with Views and Fastsearch

Submitted by Drupalace

30 Aug 2007

How much does Merlin Mann of 43 Folders like Drupal's Views? Take a look for yourself:

http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/statuses/214899002

Aye yi yi, that's way too much!

But he's got reason for that love, as he notes when he links to a Lullabot tutorial on building a nifty custom search form sporting filters for taxonomy terms and content types. Read more about Online Finds: Custom search forms with Views and Fastsearch

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