Drupal

Around early September 2019, in my Google AdSense dashboard, I noticed a warning informing me to create a separate ads.txt file.  I followed the on-screen instruction and did what was asked. After two months (at the start of November) I noticed my earnings from Google AdSense have dipped more than half and the warning was still there.  Earnings at risk - You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue. Authorized Digital Sellers, or ads.txt is an IAB initiative that helps ensure that your digital ad inventory is only sold through sellers (such…

I spent a good amount of time, trying to learn how to implement a better user segmentation on OneSignal. The best I could get so far was the default OneSiganal's out of the box segmentation based on user country. As my blog covers many mutually unrelated topics, I was not utilizing the power of push notifications at 100%. In fact, after getting more than 26,000 subscribers (over a year) I felt afraid every-time I sent out a web push notification, as user targeting was very poor. At OneSignal official documentation, I learned about using Data Tags, especially SendTag and…

RSS is not dead, it's more than alive - nowadays it's used to sync content across services and devices. After finishing installing push notifications for my blog I decided to re-check my e-mail marketing strategy. Wow, it's hard to compare actually - I got about 200 push notifications subscribers in less than 3 days, while my attempts of collecting e-mails turned out to be more gloomy  - about 60 subscribers in 3 months (after which I stopped to collect e-mail addresses at all). Not to speak about crafting and editing each newsletter. I decided to make my e-mail marketing strategy…

That day finally have come and I've officially started a new project on my first Drupal 8 website. While my first attempts were about two years ago, but due to the lack of time and will to explore new things and configure new servers I proceeded just tonight (after a conversation with a long time customer we agreed to make a re-branded website and I was allowed to "experiment" with a Drupal 8 site) I took me some time to get it running as I wasn't prepared for the Drupal 8 requirements, and one of them, is to run on at least PHP 5.5. I have two linodes configured - one for…

OK, I just need to finish this article as it has been in drafts section since November 2013 (Have no clue why I haven't finished it for so long). It's a good idea to finish your drafts once in a while. I believe embedding a Facebook post is not the most desired feature (Twitter status might be), at least I haven't found many embedded Facebook posts around, but that doesn't mean, you cannot embed one. Bellow is an example for one of my Facebook posts embedded in Drupal using simplest way - iframe: Embedded Posts are a simple way to put public posts - by a Page or a person on Facebook - into…

In this tutorial you will learn how to setup a LEMP stack on Ubuntu 12.04 for serving a Drupal site (s). Update: I originally started this post to document my setup for actually configuring Nginx server on Ubuntu for Drupal site at the start of 2015. Many things have changed ,ever since, thus most of the written bellow will work. LEMP is a variation of the ubiquitous LAMP stack used for developing and deploying web applications. Traditionally, LAMP consists of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Due to its modular nature, the components can easily be swapped out. With LEMP, Apache is…

Yesterday (February 18) marked another important milestone for my blog - for the very first time my blog traffic crossed 10,000 page views in one day. Now, don't get me wrong - I would love to report 10,000 daily page views instead of 10,000 in one day, which happened thanks to the huge traffic spike made by a dozen of referring links.  By now my blog gets about 2,000 page views per day, which of course is already a very great result, but having that traffic bump made me smile this morning. OK, I was actually closely monitoring stats already since yesterday and hoped I will…

In this article you will learn how to split large .tsv (and not only) files so you can import them to MS Office, Open Office or whatever you need using a small and neat (paid) program called EmEditor. Here is the scenario - I have been booking.com affiliate partner for many years already, I remember few years ago I dreamt I wish I would programmatically access to all of their hotels (with metadata) , so I could import those data to some other web app and reuse data I want in manner I want to. Recently I noticed on my Booking Central there is a new option - Data download, and here it was - All…

I know for some experienced Drupal developers such question might sound bizarre, because  - hey..it's a piece of cake...  I have been subscribed to the LinkedIn Drupal group and exactly such question arise here: hey guys is there any way to display username in URL when user logged in like example www.example.com/username was asked by one of the group members I added my solution for this question on that post already and I decided to share it on my blog as well since other Drupal users might ask such question as well. Solution: How to display username in URL At…

Update: I have created a resources page, where you should check for further updates. This page will not be updated anymore. In this blogging advice series, I will cover topics on how to start a blog and make it successful. In this post I will cover things like: how to register a domain name, how to setup a hosting environment, how to choose CMS (Content Management System) and how to make your blog successful.​ This post will be updated at least monthly. How to register a domain name I will speak of my experience for buying a domain name, for buying a .com domain name I'm using…