Drupal

<p>In <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-4-creating-v… 4</a> of this Drupal tutorial series we created a view with block - Features tours. Now is the right time, to do something with this block. And we gonna put this block on our <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-5-custom-fro… access blocks section in your Drupal site, head to structure/block:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.…

<p>By default Drupal comes with frontpage set to display latest 10 nodes from your site:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/frontpagedrupal.png&quot; alt="" width="632" height="573"></p><p>Which might be ok, if you are runing some blog, but if you are looking the ways how to change default frontpage, you must take a look under system/site-information. In the section default front page it's…

<p>Let's move on with our tourism companies website tutorial.</p><p>In part 1 we created a custom content type - Tours, now it's time to make a few views which will contain data from node related to content type - tours.</p><p>Before creating views - we must download a few modules, to get them work:</p><ul><li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/views">Download Views</a></li><li><a href="https://…

Recently I started a tutorial series - How to build a Drupal site from scratch. In part 1 I'm talking about planing a site. In this tutorial I'm giving a real example for building a tourism companies web site for real customer. In part we learned that it's a wise to create a content type, which best describe products/services we gonna add (in our example tours). So I have added few tours to our site: As you can see from picture above, I'm using default Drupal bartik theme. Now is the right…

Recently I started a new topic series - documentaries, where I publish documentaries I have watched and recommend to watch others. I write a brief description of what each documentary is, and then I embed a YouTube link to show a video on my blog.  How To Embed YouTube video in Drupal 8 (CKEDITOR) But lately I started to think of creating my own Screen-casts, and the idea of embedding a video on content didn't satisfy me anymore. What I wanted - to populate a video in the field, so later…

Building a website, whether it's using Drupal or not, requires careful planning and consideration. It's important to determine what the purpose of the website is, who the target audience is, and what value it will bring to your business. For instance, if the website is for a tourism company that offers fishing, hunting, and skiing tours, the first step would be to gather high-quality photos that showcase the destinations and activities offered. This could involve hiring a professional…

Upgrading a website can be a daunting task, especially if you're not familiar with the process. But upgrading your Drupal site is necessary for security, bug fixes, and new features. In this article, I'll be discussing the process of upgrading a Drupal 7.10 site to the newest version of Drupal, a minor upgrade. Before you start, it's important to understand the difference between a major and a minor upgrade. A major upgrade, such as upgrading from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, involves significant…

If you want to add the Facebook like button to your Drupal 7 site, the process is relatively straightforward. To get started, you will need to download the Facebook Like Button module from the modules section of your Drupal site. Once you have downloaded the module, extract it to the sites/modules folder. Next, you will need to enable the Facebook Like Button module from the Modules page. Once you have enabled the module, go to the admin/config/fblikebutton page to configure the module. You…

Update: This article covers details on how to enable and configure the Pathauto module for the Drupal 7 site. For Drupal 8, please see: How To Setup Pretty URLs For Drupal 8 Setting up Drupal-friendly URLs is one of the most essential tasks for Drupal users, as these URLs play a critical role in both human readability and search engine optimization (SEO). In the latest versions of Drupal, some of the friendly URL features are enabled by default, but there may still be instances where you need…

In this Drupal Development tutorial, I will walk you through the process of creating an "Upcoming Posts" page in Drupal using the Views module. Future posts are an essential aspect of maintaining a well-organized blog, and this tutorial aims to provide an easy solution for filtering future posts in the Drupal admin panel. By default, Drupal does not come equipped with the "Upcoming Posts" feature, making it challenging to filter future posts in the content admin panel. However, with the help…