Drupal

[Drupal] How to use Drupal Strongarm module?

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
Strongarm is a developer and site builder tool which provides an API and a limited UI. The strongarm module allows Drupal persistant variables to be exported and imported via Features modules. In Drupal database,the Variables table stores the configurations and settings a lot of the core modules and contributed modules.The strongarm module is used to store those datas into code.
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How to use LESS CSS preprocessor to style theme in Drupal Bootstrap

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
This article is for those who are new to Drupal Bootstrap and responsive design. Drupal Bootsrap is a responsive theme you can download it from Drupal.org. It is one of the best responsive theme and created using boostrap framework. Creating a sub theme of Bootstrap is explained in another article of mine. This article mainly concentrated about How to use LESS to style bootstrap theme Drupal.
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[Drupal] How to test Pathauto module functionality in a Drupal website

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
When you test a Drupal website , most of the time you come across the task "Implement Pathauto module" in you website. So before you start testing, you have to build an idea of what is Pathauto module and how you can test it. Pathauto, as its name suggests automatically generates user friendly URLs. Pathauto depends on the core module path, which is used to rename URLs. So please go through the explanation below to understand it more precisely.
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[Drupal] How to customize and display feeds of your site using a FeedBurner?

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
While working on a Drupal site I came across this issue that if my site is having many feeds and what happens if many users try to access this, which can possibly make our site slow. One of the possible solution is that we could create another domain for our feeds so that users can access the feeds from that domain. Also you can refer the article How to create a custom feed on Drupal 7 site using views to know how to create feeds using views
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[Drupal] How to avoid profile validation on user delete?

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
One of our clients had a problem that when they try to delete users who have signed up via mobile app they get an error saying they must enter a street address for the user before the account can be deleted. This was because users who sign up via the mobile app were not asked for their street address, but on the Drupal site the street address is a required field when a user signs up.
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[Drupal] What is the need of drush in Drupal

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
Imagine if your Drupal site has more than 30-50 modules and you wanted to update them all or you want clear all Drupal cache. If you do it manually just by unzipping and run update.php or just click the clear cache it may takes more time. Hence if you can do this all process in one single command it will be easier for a developer. Here we can use drush commands to do all work with a single command and in few seconds.
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