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22
Dec

Drupal: Publish comments in bulk with Views Bulk Operations (VBO)

Because of SPAMS, you may prefer to read the comment posts first before they are published. 

By default, drupal VBO does not have a function to bulk publish comments. It means you have to publish one by one after you click "edit". It is a real pain if you have many comments to publish. (see picture below). 

 

8
Nov

Things to consider when you choose a web hosting company

Recently, I help a charity to find a web hosting company for the new website I designed for them. 

Because it's a charity, I try to look for the cheapest possible hosting package. At the end, my intention for saving some money for them becomes a nightmare,but I learned a lot and decide to write something here. 

If your website runs on drupal, it demands a reasonable hardware resource and technology. Here are several things you must check with your webhosting providers before you commit

 

30
Aug

How to build a simple Drupal photo gallery

Modules Required

(1) Lightbox2
http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2

(2) Views
http://drupal.org/project/views

(3) CCK
http://drupal.org/project/cck

(4) Imagecache
http://drupal.org/project/imagecache

 

Steps

1. Enable all three modules above

2. Create a New content type -> Gallery

3. Create a new field in gallery using the CCK

15
Jun

Not popular, but very useful modules for drupal admin / webmaster

Here are some very useful modules which I found they are very useful. It helps me a lot to organise the admin / user pages in drupal

 

  1. Vertical tabs (http://drupal.org/project/vertical_tabs)

    This module provides the following features:

Autotagging - Drupal

Tagging becomes popular these days because it helps user / search engine to understand / search the content they are looking for. We all use tagging everyday. Think about how you use google, you put in a few keywords and the search engine comes up a list of reference contents. You bascially use the tag (keyword) to find the reference content.

If the author of the content uses some tags which are the same as the those keyword you put on google, search engine will give you a higher position.

In drupal, so far I learn 2 ways to do this tagging things

29
Apr

Joomla Vs Drupal - my post on ukbusinessforum

 

I used both Joomla and drupal...and actually, I found drupal easier to learn and use than joomla because I love to change the things..

 

with joomla, I found modules are ready to use without much need to change the theme & layout. Good for you if you are not a demanding people, but if u want to change theme / code, u will feel the headaches.

 

2
Jan

Comment Notification in drupal using RULES modules

How to get a notification whenever you receive a comment from your drupal web ?

This is how I do it with RULES module . I think trigger module would also do the trick, but I found RULES module has many more options & work better with token (as I had bad experience with Trigger module for not being able to make a proper tokenized email).

8
Dec

Fix the "Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted" in drupal

Today, I tried to install the openpublish, but I got this problem "Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted". After a bit of googling and research, this is the solution that works!!!

Change the memory value in public_html/php.ini. Then go to Control
Panel, PHP Config, and choose "PHP5 (Single php.ini)." This will cause
all subdirectories to use the php.ini in your public_html directory.

http://www.bluehostforum.com/showthread.php?t=14500

8
Dec

How to speed up your drupal site in 2mins

Recently, I found my web loading slowly. Everytime, I visit here, I see on the bottom left corner there are lots of files loading up and thus, it takes at least 2 seconds till I see something.

After doing a bit of "googling", I found one of the reason is because each module has their own CSS files. In a normal drupal site, you could have at least 6+ CSS need to be loaded.

15
Nov

How to give a different publishing options to different users in Drupal

This week, I have been making a news website for the Somalian's community. The client wants different users to have different publishing abilities.

Eg.
1) Trusted member can publish news without approval
2) Normal member can publish news / post, but it has to be approved by admin before it could be shown on the web.

The challenge for that is drupal only allows one default option in the "publish" box for all users.

Here is how I solve the problem:

1) Untick Publishing box in the "Publishing box". It means by default, all post are set to "unpublished" after it's submitted.

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