Drupal, Content Management At Its Finest!
Glenn Burks.com is built upon the content management system Drupal. While it may not be for everyone due to it’s complexity, it really is not all that complex.
It has the scalability for a single user to the largest organizations you can imagine. Whitehouse.gov uses Drupal today along with many other organizations.
As I discover more I write about it here...
Latest Mollom Update 6x-1-11
Ok so you know how when you get in a rush, and you install a Drupal Module update assuming everything will be ok.
If we only lived in a perfect world right.
The other day I updated the latest Drupal 6.x Mollom module release 1.11 on three different sites.
It was running late so I really didn't check my work and ensure that everything was as it should be...
With most module updates if something is not working it's not that serious and neither was this update, unless...
...You love getting comment spam. Read more
Drupal Backup and Migrate 2.2 Module Issue?
Over the past two days I spent quite a few hours trying to figure out why the update for Backup and Migrate 2.2 would not save to the scheduled folder.
Since I had two sites and it was only occurring on one of them I knew it was not the module itself but more likely a permissions issue. This is where I spent most of my time, verifying the various folders permissions, ownership etc...
The Drupal module Backup and Migrate places an htaccess file in each of the folders, manual and scheduled, with:
order deny,allow
deny from all Read more
Drupal 6.x Nodewords update 1.7 A Disaster
Wow talk about a night mare, the newly releashed up date for the drupal 6 nodewords 1.7 update is creating havoc with many individuals.
And, yes I was one of them. At first I thought I was screwed because I did not do a backup immediately prior to updating the module.
As I set down to go through each page and post it suddenly dawned on me, dummy you've got the module Backup and Migrate installed.
Now it was just a matter of uploading nodewords 1.5 and then restoring the latest backup. Talk about dodging a bullet! Read more
LiteJazz Plus RootCandy Theme For Drupal 6
When it comes to choosing a theme for Drupal what is it that you look for in a theme?
Over the past three weeks I wanted to give one of my sites a new look. I looked at all the Drupal themes for version 6, there are quite a few that I found intriguing.
I had used a previous theme that had been converted from the wordpress theme Revolution Music by RoopleTheme. Since I had one of the developer packages for the Revolution theme I put the theme into use. Read more
Using Drupal 6 Views To Create Offset Recent Posts.
This past weekend I was searching for a way to take the recent posts block and have it display offset posts and limit it to 5 posts.
I found information on creating it by using php code inserted into a block, I was looking for something simpler.
The solution was to start leaning more about the Drupal Views module. So when in doubt it always pays to read the manual. In the Views tutorial there is a section titled "Create a block of author's recent blog posts." Read more
