[box type=”note”]Unless you are using MediaTemple, you should try the directions to install Drush using Pear on a shared host first, as that method is preferred.[/box] A while back I wrote a quick guide for getting Drush up and running on a shared Dreamhost account and it was great to see lots of folks taking advantage of the power of Drush on…
[box type=”note”]If you have issues with these directions, please read the alternate directions for installing on a shared host manually without using Pear. MediaTemple is one provider where you must use the alternate directions to get Drush working.[/box] One of the easiest and most convenient ways to get your hands on Drupal is on a shared hosting environment. It’s pretty much where everyone is going to start from…
Some of you may recall that a couple of years ago (wow, that long?) I wrote an article on this blog entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Repetitive Tasks in a CMS” describing some of the biggest causes of grief I had when using Drupal (and other online presence/communication creators). I felt it was time for another one of these posts in the same…
If you ever wanted to allow your site’s users to be able to generate bit.ly URLs cleanly from within Drupal? Well, now you can! The newly written bit.ly module provides OAuth access to allow visitors to sign into their bit.ly accounts, acquire their API keys, and create links in their names’ as well as retrieve statistical account data. More is to be…
Add another module has been recently updated with another new time-saving feature; you can now display “Add another” tabs on certain node types. I’m also taking the time to think of what else can be done to make the usual node creation workflow easier for end users. I’ll be looking for suggestions on how to improve the UI and workflow of node submissions and…
If you’ve been using Drupal for any amount of time you’ve probably ran into the problem of needing to go to the access page each time you enable a module to ensure the admin users have permission to make full use of it. This is a module that I was planning to write, but then I discovered JacobSingh had already made it; Admin Role is…
It’s something I’m asked every now and then. “If I’m just making a blog site, should I just use WordPress, or should I still use Drupal?” To be fair, it all comes down in the end to a matter of personal taste. But, there are still some factual points on either side of the Drupal Blog vs. WordPress Blog argument. Firstly, some…
It sounds kind of like Star Trek, but trust me, this is a lot more exciting! Drupal 7 will access databases using PDO (PHP Data Objects), which allows Drupal to support many different Database Servers in the future (and will bring us one step closer to Drupal running on a SQLite3 flat-file database, woohoo!). A few people covered the patch arriving in…