Panels module

The Week in Drupal: October 26, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:03:14 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 26, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 19 - 26, 2012.

Drupal News

Dries Buytaert: Draft for Drupal Community Working Group charter

Registration is open for DrupalCamp Ohio 2012

Great Posts and Tutorials

Explaining the Drupal < 7.16 Installer vulnerability

So You Want to Build a Drupal Product…

Profile Builder: The Features module of Distribution development

An Introduction to the Imagefield Crop Module

Drupal not saving admin pages with large number of input fields

Testing Drupal distributions using Behat, Mink, Drupal Extension, and Travis CI

Rules won’t work properly when run during cron, if you use node access restrictions

Simple contact form per content item with Entityform

Remote entities in Drupal 7

Building Drupal Style Tiles using Foundation and SCSS

Interesting New Modules

ACL File Access - Adds the access control per user over individual file.

Commerce Coupon by Terms - Allows coupons to apply to products tagged with specific taxonomy terms.

apachesolr_csv - Takes the search results from an ApacheSolr search and uses them to generate a CSV file

Site issue tracker - Aimed at making development of a site simpler by listing page-specific issues of a webpage on the page (above the content)

Nodewords Twitter - Support module for nodewords that allows creation of meta tags used by Twitter as detailed here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards

Bootstrap optimizer - Speeds up Drupal bootstrap process. See the module page forma description of how.

Entity Translation Tabs - Gives site editors an edit tab for each language that your site supports.

Message-subscribe - Provide a subscription system built on Flag 2.x and Message-notify 2.x.

RGraph Thermometer - Fundraiser thermometer.

Panels, Why so slow? - Shows you how many milliseconds each pane takes to render.

User Search to People Administration - Moves user search into the user admin area.

APC Flush - An APC opcode cache flush automator for high performance Drupal-setups.

Wayne EakerOctober 26, 2012

The Week in Drupal: October 19, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:08:10 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 19, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 12 - 19, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.16 released

SA-CORE-2012-003 - Drupal core - Arbitrary PHP code execution and Information disclosure

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Unify anonymous and authenticated users by separating accounts from users

Drupal core announcements: WYSIWYG in core and consequent filter system changes

Great Posts and Tutorials

Module Monday: Views Data Export

Angie Byron on Drupal core and Spark (Podcast)

Creating Specialized Layouts with Panelizer

Field API - Creating your own field formatters

How to Pass Multiple Values through an Exposed Filter in Drupal Views

What was that query?

Fast, Parallel MySQL Backups and Imports with Mydumper

Interesting New Modules

Standard Search Result Display - Overrides the core styles and templates for search so they closely match the UI of Google, Bing and Yahoo.

CkEditor Plugin: Google Doc embedded iframe

User Pic Kit - Allow users to choose a picture from multiple providers. Includes integration with Gravatar, Robohash, and Drupal core picture uploads.

Geckoboard Push - For developers who want to show custom statistics on a Geckoboard dashboard using the Geckoboard Push API.

Wayne EakerOctober 19, 2012

Drupal Drupal 7 Drupal 8 Drupal Community FieldAPI MySQL Panels module Search Security Theming Views module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: June 29, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:22:41 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 29, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 22 - 29, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal core announcements: Drupal 7 core release postponed; help still needed resolving release blockers

Transitions at the Drupal Association

Dries Buytaert: Drupal governance sprint

Dries Buytaert: Spark update: responsive layouts in Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Base Theme Review

Drupal cron failing? Not sure why? here’s a handy drush command.

Module Monday: Custom Permissions

Scaling GRAMMY.com at the High Performance Drupal Meetup

Automatically increment Features version numbers using Drush

Bob Christenson and Making a living in Drupal - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Inheriting your Drupal profile from an existing distribution

E-Learning Institute at PSU: ELMS Beta released and beyond!

Interesting New Modules

Image Annotator - Allows you to annotate images. See this screenshot for what that means.

Panels edition - This module helps manage different “editions” of the front page of your website.

Flag Lists Popup - Provides a popup menu for Flag Lists module.

AJAXBlock - Provides a set of options for turning any normal blocks into AJAX blocks, which do not need a complete page reload when the content changes. Currently works with Webform.

Google Cloud Messaging - Implementation of Google Cloud Messaging for use with Drupal and Rules module.

Simple Views Field - Provides the ability to generate a views lists by choosing from a few simple choices.

Entityreference Bulk - This module offers an entityreference field widget that allows to create referenced entities while creating the referencing (“parent”) entity.

Feeds: Facebook events - Import event data via graph api from facebook.

Login Ticket - Allows for the generation of login-tickets. (a special link that logs in a user when he/she clicks on it) Each link can have 3 parameters: How long is the ticket valid? How often can this link be used? Where is the user redirected after the login?

Wayne EakerJune 29, 2012

Business Drupal Drush Features module Feeds module Flag module High Performance Imagecache module Imagefield module Panels module Responsive Design Security Theming Webform module

The Week in Drupal: April 27, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:57:28 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 27, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 20 - 27, 2012.

Drupal News

Google announces Summer of Code results for 2012 - Drupal gets 13 projects!!

DrupalCon Munich Accepting Session Submissions

Drupal core announcements: Future of javascript in Drupal 8

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Drupal 8 Configuration System Funding Proposal

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Drupal 8 Web Services Funding Proposal

Drupal Association News: Tell us what you think in the Membership Survey

Great Posts and Tutorials

Palantir: Scalable Navigation Patterns in Responsive Web Design

Module Development with NodeJS Integration

Easy Drupal CDN integration for fun and profit

An improved way to put content in panels - introducing the Node Pane module

LESS is More

Drupal will become more MongoDB friendly

An overview of changes in Display Suite 7.x-2.x

Case Study: Building an Auto Dealership Portal with Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

Content Menu - This looks like a pretty amazing replacement for Drupal's menu management UI. There's a blog post and screencast for it here.

Core Override - This module allows you to override individual functions in core modules without patching core.

Views argument cache - Allows you clear cached Views for specific arguments.

Class Style Filter - This module provides an input filter that allows WYSIWYG embedded images to be restyled using Drupal's Image Styles functionality.

Commerce Webform - Like UC Webform, but for Drupal Commerce

Node Access Config - Allows the cooperation between various node access modules when they are installed in parallel.

Views Raw SQL - Allows arbitrary SQL expressions to be added to Views, currently as fields and sorts.

Context Active Menu Tree - Context plugin to expose the active menu as a context condition.

Text Format Access - Provides an ability to configure global or per-role access to text formats of particular field.

Field Collection Chart - Adds new field formatter to "field_collection" fields that allows users to display their fields as Google charts.

Node access book - Gives content access permissions on a book child page if users have access to the root of the book.

Wayne EakerApril 27, 2012

Context module Display Suite Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Munich E-Commerce Imagecache module Menus Node.js Panels module Responsive Design Views module

The Week in Drupal: March 30, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:17:03 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 30, 2012

Being out in Denver last week, I didn't have time to post one of these, so here's a look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the past two weeks: March 16 - 30, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Denver Wrapup, Including Session Videos

Dries Buytaert: Streamlining Drupal core decision-making

Usability Report from the Drupal 7 UX Study at Google

Announcing DrupalCon 2013 in Portland!

The Google Summer of Code is Back for 2012!

DrupalCon Munich is around the corner: call for papers and registration open

Phase2 and Treehouse are Coming Together

Great Posts and Tutorials

Why Minify JavaScript?

How to Build a Lightbox Portfolio in Drupal 7

Extended path aliases (path to success!)

Render a block programmatically

Ubercart CRM for the iPad: My DrupalCon 2012 Twilio Developer Contest Entry

KatteKrab: The Drupal Association

Interesting New Modules

Views Field If-Else - This is a D7 views field, that compares rendered text in an if-statement, and renders a defined text for each clause.

Views Simple Pager - This module provides a simple, configurable Previous / Next pager and the elements can be reversed from "normal" display order (e.g. << Older ... Newer >> instead of << Newer .. Older >>).

Mailchecker - Implements mailcheck.js (https://github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck) with Drupals forms, primarily the register form.

Views Date - Allows you to do non-traditional date sorts, such as by hour of the day.

Entityreference Browser - A widget that allows you to easily find content from a entityrefrence field.

Introducting the Speedy Module

Pathologic Repair - Repair links that get broken in content from staging to production with this extension to the Pathologic module.

Panels Create node - Create nodes and add them as panes, all from within the Panels interface.

Feeds Review - Provides an intermediary Feeds Processor class that allows you to store imported items in a queue for reviewing them before import.

Image lazy - Loads images that user scrolls to view only, skip loading bunch of images which user doesn't event skim.

impress - Adds Impress.js to your drupal site Use the content type slide to create a new slide Select your options. By default it will generate a new slide right to the previous. You can select under/left/above also. Use Node queue to sort your slides

Ubercart Stock Locations - Define one or more locations and to set the stock level for each product at each of the locations independently.

Flag Signup - Enables users to signup to content via the flag module.

Distributed Blocks - Simple client/server module to share rendered blocks across different Drupal sites. Must be enabled on both sides.

Mobile App Generator - Create a mobile app quickly from a menu of pages. I saw the DrupalCon session on this. Somewhat limited, but very easy to use.

Entity Collection (Super Node) - Node collection is a module that will allow you to add parent child relationships on different content types and will help you to create content rich small micro sites inside your Drupal 7 installation .

Entity Reference Connect - This module expands Entity Reference using Subform to allow the user to create a new entity to be referenced to without having to leave the current page.

Auto Product Display - provide user an option to automatically create product display on every new product creation.

Cookie Control - Cookie Control does just that, presenting users with clear information on whether cookies are present, linking to your privacy policy (where you should have specific information about what cookies are in use), and advising users on how to adjust browser settings and what cookies mean for them.

dRealty Sandbox - dRealty is a Real Estate Module to import Listings into drupal via the RETS protocol. It aims to become a full fledged IDX solution for Drupal.

Node Archive - This module replaces this default behaviour with an archiving system.

Flag Cool Note - provides the Drupal administrator to attach a webform to a flag so that when users flag or unflag any piece of content, they can add additional information using the webform.

Wayne EakerMarch 30, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community DrupalCon Denver DrupalCon Munich DrupalCon Portland Entity API Feeds module Flag module FormAPI Mobile Panels module Theming Ubercart UX Views module

The Week in Drupal: November 11, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:25:28 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 11, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of November 4 - 11, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal 8 - Core Initiatives Progress Update - 10/27/11 Edition

Drupalcon Voting is a waste of time & resources

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Simple guide to install Apache Solr 3.x for Drupal 7

Module Monday: Panelizer

Custom steps and forms in a D7 install profile

Auto-refreshing views for real-time information streams

Solr and OpenLayers in Drupal 7 (Podcast)

Adding color module support to your theme in Drupal 7

How to create Drupal exercise files that work every time

Quick and Dirty Coupon with Custom Line Item and Rules (Screencast)

Remember that the CAPTCHA module disables page caching

How Google and Bing crawlers were confused by quicktabs

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Alert - Allows you to call a drupal_set_message_for_user(), even if that's not the logged in user.

oData - Display data provided by any Open Data Web Services using Views module.

Tadaa! - Easily switch enabled modules and settings for development, staging and production modes.

Views Filters Populate - Use one exposed filter to search multiple Views fields. (such as First Name, Last Name)

Face.com API - Detect faces and automatically crop images with the Imagecache module.

Redirect after logout

Commerce Flat Rate

Profile2 Registration Path - Assign different registration URLs for different Profile 2 profile types.

Commerce Giftwrap

Wayne EakerNovember 11, 2011

CAPTCHA Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Imagecache module Install Profiles Maps Panels module Solr Theming Views module

The Week in Drupal: April 29, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:13:55 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 29, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of April 22 - 29, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal Gets 20 Projects in Google's Summer of Code

Contest for Worthy Non-Profit Organization: Custom Drupal 7 site worth > $54k

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Twenty APIs Every Drupal Developer Should Know

Importing Nodes with the Feeds Module

Building Custom Panel Panes (CTools Content Types) in Drupal 7

Improving Drupal Integration with Salesforce

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Semantic Fields - Drupal 7 successor to the Semantic CCK module.

Rules Webform Submitted - Allows you to trigger actions when a user has or has not submitted a Webform.

Context SSL - Redirect users to an SSL version of a page based on Context.

Product Revenue Field - Keep track of total revenue in Ubercart on a per-product basis.

Update Status Detailed Email - Augments the update status email alert to include information about which modules need updating.

Field Reference Count - Adds a "count" formatter to reference fields in Views.

Wayne EakerApril 29, 2011

Context module Drupal Panels module Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: February 25, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:16:48 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 25, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from February 18 - 25, 2011.

Drupal News

One Week to DrupalCon Chicago!

SBA.gov Using Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Lullabot Podcast: Building GRAMMY.com - Varnish, APC, Memcache, etc.

Unveiling the Drupal Commerce Beta

How the Drupal.org Home Page Map Works

Interesting New Modules

Panelizer - Attach Panels to nodes on an individual basis.

Context Rules - Integrate the Context module with Rules.

Advanced Gallery - Yet another image gallery system for Drupal. I like the idea behind this one, though. Nodereferences to nodes with Imagefield CCK fields.

Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation - Adds several features beyond the default aggregation options.

Multiple Exposed Filter - Add new filters to a view dynamically.

Node Theme Switcher - Use a CCK field to switch your theme per node.

Atrium Glossary - Add a glossary to Open Atrium.

Wayne EakerFebruary 25, 2011

Context module Drupal Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Chicago High Performance Image Galleries Open Atrium Panels module Rules module Theming

The Week in Drupal: December 10, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:28:12 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 10, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Drupal News

Drupal 7 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is Out!

DrupalCon Chicago Session Voting is Now Open

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Improve Javascript Loading with Head JS - Includes code for Drupal 6 and 7. (D6 code in comments)

7 Ways to Scale the Learning Brick Wall of Drupal - A good list of resources. We also do Drupal Training in Michigan, in addition to the trainers listed.

Interesting New Modules

Media: Facebook - Embed Facebook images into content.

Botcha Spam Prevention - Adds extra hidden fields to forms that trick spam bots into to filling them out, at which point they are blocked.

SlideDeck for Views - SlideDeck is a slick accordion-style slideshow jQuery plugin. This module integrates it with Views.

Feeds: Youtube - Import Youtube videos to your site with the Feeds module.

Production Check and Production Monitor - Like a pre-launch checklist. Checks SEO, error logging and other important settings to make sure they are ready to go live.

Field Injector - Display CCK fields inside other fields, like putting an Imagefield image after the first paragraph. (Drupal 7 only)

Ubercart Option Categories - Group your Ubercart dropdown attributes into categories.

Comment Registration - Register new users inline with adding their first comment.

Panels Regions - Remove certain regions in specific Panels variants.

Wayne EakerDecember 10, 2010

CCK module Comment module Drupal Drupal 7 DrupalCon Chicago Facebook Feeds module jQuery Panels module Spam Ubercart Views module

The Week in Drupal: November 12, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:10:33 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 12, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Drupal News

DrupalCon is Coming to London in August 2011

Something is Broken on Examiner.com - Writers in Uproar - Examiner.com decided to upgrade their site last week to Drupal 7. Now it's broken all over the place and writers are angry. (They get paid per impression.) I can't imagine why a large site like that would upgrade before Drupal 7 has even one stable release.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Panels: I got it all wrong - Describes the differences between Panels and Page Manager. After reading this, I can see I misunderstood them, as well.

Uncaptchalous Drupal Module Demo - Get rid of the CAPTCHAs on your site and still stay spam free.

203 people tell "What I wish I knew when I started Drupal" - Results from an Acquia survey about roles in the Drupal community taken this summer.

Interesting New Modules

Smart Flush - Automatically rebuild your page cache after flushing it. Handy for high-volume sites.

Array Tokens - Exposes all the values of a multi-valued CCK field or Taxonomy selection with the Token module.

System Features - Exposes system elements to the Features module. Set module enabled/disabled status and enable themes.

Ubercart Early Bird Discount - Apply date-based discounts to products with Ubercart.

Shared Blocks - Syndicate blocks across multiple sites. This looks pretty cool.

Node Private File - Provides a checkbox on CCK FileFields that forces downloads through the node access system.

Facebook Authentication - Lightweight authentication for Facebook. Works when you want to use Facebook information, but don't want to create Drupal users. If you need more fully-featured Facebook integration, check out the Drupal for Facebook module.

Apache Solr Search By Type - The name says it all.

Wayne EakerNovember 11, 2010

Caching CAPTCHA Drupal DrupalCon London E-Commerce Facebook Panels module Solr Token module Ubercart