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Review of the Teleport Module
12th July 2010
As a heavily-reliant Quicksilver user on my MacBook Pro, I was glad when I found the Teleport module for Drupal (due to Elliott Rothman's tweet). When you press a configurable hot-key, a jQuery dialog box appears where you can search for nodes by title or path, or directly enter the path …
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Add a Taxonomy Term to Multiple Nodes Using SQL
7th July 2010
Update: This can also be done using the Views Bulk Operations module. In preparation for my Blog posts being added to Drupal Planet, I needed to create a new Taxonomy term (or, in this case, tag) called 'Drupal Planet', and assign it to new content to imported into their aggregator. After …
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Create Virtual Hosts on Mac OS X Using VirtualHostX
2nd July 2010
This isn't a Drupal related topic per se, but it is a walk-through of one of the applications that I use whilst doing Drupal development work. I assume, like most Mac OS X users, I use MAMP to run Apache, MySQL and PHP locally whilst developing. I also use virtual …
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Change the Content Type of Multiple Nodes Using SQL
1st July 2010
In this post, I will be changing values within my Drupal 6 site's database to quickly change the content type of multiple nodes. I will be using a test development site with the core Blog module installed, and converting Blog posts to a custom content type called 'News article'. Before changing …
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Create a Flickr Photo Gallery Using Feeds, CCK and Views
28th June 2010
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a photo gallery which uses photos imported from Flickr. The modules that I'll use to create the Gallery are: CCK Feeds Feeds Image Grabber FileField ImageAPI ImageCache ImageField Views The first thing that I did was to create a content type to store my imported images. I named it 'Photo', removed …
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10 Useful Drupal 6 Modules
25th June 2010
Aside from the obvious candidates such as Views, CCK etc, here are a list of 10 contributed modules that I currently use on each Drupal project. So, in no particular order: Admin: The admin module provides UI improvements to the standard Drupal admin interface. I've just upgraded to the new 6.x-2.0-beta4 version, …
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Create a Block of Social Media Icons using CCK, Views and Nodequeue
23rd June 2010
I recently decided that I wanted to have a block displayed in a sidebar on my site containing icons and links to my social media profiles - Twitter, Facebook etc. I tried the Follow module, but it lacked the option to add extra networks such my Drupal.org account, and my …
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Improve JPG Quality in Imagecache and ImageAPI
2nd June 2010
Whilst uploading images for my Projects and Testimonials sections, I noticed that the Imagecache-scaled images weren't as high a quality the originals on my Mac. I did some searching online and found out that, by default, Drupal resamples uploaded jpgs to 75% of their original quality. To increase the quality of …
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Quickly Import Multiples Images Using the Imagefield_Import Module
29th May 2010
Thanks to Bob at Mustardseed Media for tweeting about this module. It's undoubtedly saved me hours of work today alone! I've recently started a personal project converting a website to Drupal. It's currently a static HTML/CSS site which also uses the Coppermine Photo Gallery. As part of building the new website, …
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Create a Slideshow of Multiple Images Using Fancy Slide
25th May 2010
Whilst updating my About page, I thought about creating a slideshow of several images instead of just the one static image. When I looking on Drupal.org, the only slideshow modules were to create slideshows of images that were attached to different nodes - not multiple images attached to one node. …
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