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For more than 10 years I’ve been using a dedicated image field in Drupal content types as a featured image. Back when I originally built the site architecture, this approach made perfect sense. The…
I have been using Drupal's Social Share counter module for some time already. It worked great until recently it stopped and all posts were showing 0 shares. After a quick research on the modules…
A couple of years ago I launched the Piece of Life project in the frames of this blog. The idea was simple - instead of building a separate website for our photo stories, incorporate it…
There are several options how to enable custom fonts for Drupal 8 website, in this article I will stick with one of the easiest - using a custom module - @font-your-face As usual, for…
In this article you will learn how I managed to increase load times for a Drupal powered site (the one you are currently reading) by more than 76%. Now the following tip will apply…
It seems just yesterday I wrapped a simple Drupal tutorial on how to enable pretty URL's for Drupal 7 site. Turns out already three years have passed. Time flies, newer versions of Drupal emerges,…
Made a simple Drupal patch for Location module to display latest administrative divisions of Latvia. Default one is still showing outdated data using old "Rayon" as administrative divisions of Latvia. Will try to submit this…
In yesterday's article How to hide Drupal comment Subject line and help text I talked about a simple and neat module Simplify, with help of whom I was able to get rid of confusing Subject…
There are several ways of hiding Input format options for Drupal comments, the simplest (but the wrongest) way is by just hiding area with CSS (display:none), second - you can use the hook_form_alter function to make changes…
Time after time I have received negative comments on my blog, where users were complaining about disabled copy functionality from my blog - For a very long time I had disabled to copy any text…
Recently I made a switch from http to https. I was pretty pleased with results, and started to wait for possible SEO boost from Google. As time passed, instead of boost some traffic drop started…
In today's Drupal development series I will show how easy you can setup a true CDN for your Drupal site using third party CDN provider - KeyCDN. Get a free $10 bonus by signing up for KeyCDN…
There was a time when I was really eager to develop native Drupal app, back then I decided to stick with Drupalgap. Now, more than a year has already passed since, and I haven't achieved…
In this article you will learn how to make blocks on your Drupal site to float using a simple, and yet powerful module - Floating block. Here are some other cool tutorials you might…
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…
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup a CKEditor for your Drupal website + how to enable a few very neat modules - like IMCE for Image upload, Spell checker and Word…
Some time ago I noticed some website has copied my content including all texts and photos. I immediately contacted the website owner with a request to take down this copy/pasted content. This simple approach worked…
In this article, I'll show how I built a travel map using Drupal and a few extra modules. For a starter, you can see a live preview by visiting my Travel Map. In this…
Drupal is a popular content management system that allows users to create complex websites with a wide range of features and functions. One of the most useful features of Drupal is its ability to…
It has been a while since I decided to build my first Android app powered by Drupal. Actually, I haven't built any other kind of app yet. But I have investigated a few options…
