Drupal 7

SEO is the bread and butter of any website and Drupal is no exception. The rules of SEO are pretty much the same in a Drupal as on any other CMS or plain HTML website but there are some SEO mistakes that are unique to Drupal like the ones found in our list of the Top 6 SEO mistakes found in Drupal sites. Also checkout the Top 6 SEO modules for Drupal to achieve even better Search Engine rankings. If you would like to ensure that all SEO aspects are taken care of in your Drupal site do get in touch with us

When migrating from Drupal 5, the normal path would be to migrate everything (core/modules/themes) to the latest Drupal 5 versions, and then to the latest Drupal 6 versions, and then over to the Drupal 7 versions. How fortunate would have been the developers assigned the job if everything was as simple as that!

This is how you would normally render a view display passing filter inputs via code: $view = views_get_view('view-name'); $view->set_display('display-name'); $view->is_cacheable = FALSE; $filter_1 = $view->get_item('display-name', 'filter', 'filter_1_id'); $filter_2 = $view->get_item('display-name', 'filter', 'filter_2_id'); $filter_1['value'] = "value1"; $filter_2['value'] = "value2"; $view->set_item('display-name', 'filter', 'filter_1_id', $filter_1); $view->set_item('display-name', 'filter', 'filter_2_id', $filter_2); dpm($view->render());

How to test the site in maintenance mode in Drupal 6 and Drupal 7? During many instances there are occasions where you would like to take the Drupal site offline before your testers run through the various testing procedures.

Do you want to display a login form in a popup? Here is a simple way of displaying the login form in popup using Colorbox in Drupal 7. For this, we need Colorbox module for Drupal 7 installed. Now, follow these steps:

Frequently we come across Drupal sites (live or testing) where the user 1 passwords are not known to the owner of the site. You can retrieve the password by changing the email address of user 1 to your email address and then use the forgot password option to reset your password. But if you don't want to change the user 1 email address but instead just want to change the password of user 1 there is an easier alternative via the database.

Are you looking to create a block of nodes related to one of the taxonomy terms in your current node? Just take an easy way to get this done on your Drupal site. For Drupal 7, follow these steps:

There are many ways to setup a slideshow on your Drupal site. Here is a HOWTO to help you add a slideshow to your Drupal 7 website using the Views Slideshow module and some cool jquery plugins, and how to customize the controls, pager and effect type. For installing and setting up views slide show, follow these steps.

By default Drupal 7 has two types of views - The Full node view and the Teaser view. This has been the case for all previous versions of Drupal. However if your requirements are different, then you might have to create a custom view that is tailored to meet your specific needs. Check out how to create a simple custom “View mode” for nodes in Drupal 7.