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Meta tags are used for page description, ever wondered on how to add meta tags for the custom pages in Drupal 7. Using hook_html_head_alter() or using hook_preprocess_html() we could add Meta tags and title.

It is very simply to exclude single nodes using views. But In this section we are going to exclude multiple nodes using Views. Only thing you need to have is contributed module "Views".

One of our Drupal client had a requirement of responsive carousel. It should have swipe functionality in mobile, So I figured out a nice jquery plugin to solve all these requirements "Timelinejs"

Mr.Thomas P. Thomas, CEO, Zyxware Technologies, is a man of strategy and vision, as is evident from his love for the game of cricket. Those who have been in meetings with him would have heard him talk very passionately about cricket. After Lakshya 2015, each team had meetings with him to further clarify on the presentations that had taken place. Our team had one too. After the meeting, we came up on the following conclusions:

If you want to display some custom text related to an entity (which are not part of the entities fields. Eg. Calculated sum based on some values of the fields) in your apache solr search result, you can do it in two simple steps.

Facebook OAuth module helps to extract data from user's Facebook account details and map that user's Drupal account during registration. The user details will be extracted directly from the Facebook account details and user can define the custom field types to be extracted with validations. Validations means the mandatory field info's that should be present in the Facebook account details before extract using the FBoauth API.

In one of the Drupal sites were working on, the members of the site frequently found that the nodes they had created were crashing. They would enter content into the node fields and try to save the node. The node would appear to save with apparently no error message. They found that it was not accessible at all afterwards. This wasn't occurring for everyone. We checked the dblog and we saw that the users were getting the error PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect string value:. Read on to know how we solved this issue.

A number of Drupal users using the Drupal Organic Gropus module reported that they could not see groups that they belong to and also the groups the administrator belonged to. If you are facing the same issue with Drupal Organic Groups in your Drupal site then read on to find out the fix.

Views Bulk Operation module is helpful in the cases where we need to perform a particular operation for more than one row in a view. Some of the operations includes deleting multiple contents, publishing/un-publishing contents, change the author of the content, send email etc. In one of our Drupal project I need to perform a action to add a single field for all rows. Drupal provides a hook to declare the required operations and handle extra changes to the bulk operations settings.

This article is on how to add images to Amazon S3 in a drupal site(D7) via code. For this, download drupal module Amazon S3 (https://www.drupal.org/project/amazon_s3). The purpose of this module is to get the s3.inc file (the file which define all s3 functions defined in Amazon)