Drupal

Taxonomy Suggestions

Drupalace — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:24:47 -0700

Taxonomy suggestions

You can create whatever Terms you can think of a use for, grouped into whatever Vocabularies you like. There are infinite possibilities – which always makes it hard to get started.

General strategy

It's difficult to immediately envision all the ways to set up your taxonomy, and all the possibilities for using it. Here's a general suggestion for starting out:

How to export and import Book nodes?

Drupalace — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:38:32 -0700

I wanted to move a Book from one site to another. I see a couple of modules that look up to the task – Book Import and Export DocBook – but they're for 4.x only. For 5.x, I see Export DXML. Yet the scant description online (http://drupal.org/project/export_dxml) says that Book Import (the 4.x module) is used to then import the exported content. Hmm.

Testing Hidden Node Title

Drupalace — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:59:54 -0700

This is a page I'm creating to test the technique for hiding a node title, given at How to hide a node title?

This page's title is "Testing Hidden Node Title", but you should see it without any title appearing in the usual place.

Menus, Links, and Paths: Navigating the Site

Drupalace — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:09:39 -0700

This is important stuff. One of the keys to grasping Drupal is to understand that creating content is just a small part of the picture. Creating a node is simple enough; telling users how to get to any node, via links in menus or elsewhere, is the start of building a site.

Creating a page from a List of Nodes

Drupalace — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:00:01 -0700

You'll often want to make a page not from a single node, but from a list of several nodes. I haven't yet come across a technical Drupal word for such a page, so I'll call it a 'node-list page'.

Creating a page from a Single Node

Drupalace — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:42:51 -0700

There's not much to cover here. As already discussed, when you create a node, Drupal automatically gives it a path (like node/53), or you can give it a path yourself (like product_catalog).

To create a page from that node, then, you don't really need to do anything special. Just go to the node's path (presumably via a menu item you've created for the purpose), and Drupal will whip up a page centered around that node, surrounded by the blocks, graphical elements, footer, and other accountrements you've set up for the site.

That's it!

Placing Content on Pages

Drupalace — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:32:17 -0700

First, a note:

Following common writing practice, I'm capitalizing words in the titles of EDAM pages. This perhaps isn't a good decision, though, as elsewhere in the text I try to make some clear distinctions between certain capitalized and uncapitalized words.

In this EDAM entry, the title "Placing Content on Pages" refers to placing content on any web page (uncapitalized, generic meaning, not the special node type Drupal calls Page).

End tangent.

Testing the Blogging Clients #2: Review of MarsEdit on Drupal

Drupalace — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

I have an old, short post about testing blogging client MarsEdit with Drupal. A blogging client is a stand-alone application that posts to your blog or other website; the advantage is that you write and edit in a familiar word processor-like application, without having to log in to your site, navigate to content creation, and work with your site's text editing features.

Dumb mistake #27747: Wrong module version

Drupalace — Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Captcha's been treatin' me bad. Or so I thought. Looks like I was the one doing' Captcha wrong.

This site has lately been slammed by comment spam. That's okay, the Akismet module and service are flagging it as spam and keeping it off the site, but the "comment posted" moderator email notices are flowing in like an army ant column. (Hmm, I set Akismet to disable notices to the moderator, but they keep coming. Will have to solve that later.)

Putting Seth Godin to work

Drupalace — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

See, here's the funny part. After I went and wrote that big post on how much I love the What Would Seth Godin Do module, it stopped working for me. Only on Drupalace.com, not other sites on which I implemented it.