Talking Drupal

www.talkingdrupal.com/146

In episode #146 we talk with Kevin Thull about Drupal Camps and Video recording sessions.

• What is Kevin providing
• Why is Kevin doing this
• What does it cost
• Requirements for the camp
• Value of having video at Drupal Camp
• What tools and software being used?

Midcamp 2017

Florida Drupal Camp 2017

Food Truck 50

Free Linking

This project implements a filter framework for easier creation of HTML links to other pages on the site or to external sites.

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Kevin Thull www.bluedropshop.com @kevinjthull

http://www.talkingdrupal.com/145

In episode #145 we talk about log files. Exciting? No. But you should be getting comfortable with them. Logs are your friend.

• Why log files are important
• When to review logs
• Types of log files
• Watchdog
• Dev vs Production
• Modules and tools to help

DrupalCon Videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeDXSh4nHjRbDdwHEBRHItfnjrJ8kEDK

D8 Logger - https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core!lib!Drupal.php/function/Drupal%3A%3Alogger/8.2.x

Watchdog - https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21bootstrap.inc/function/watchdog/7.x

Splunk - https://www.splunk.com/

Solar Winds - http://www.solarwinds.com/

Typogrify module - Typogrify.module brings the typographic refinements of Typogrify to Drupal.

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

www.talkingdrupal.com/144

In episode #144 we talk about redirects, what are they, why are they important and how to implement them.

• What is a redirect
• Most common needs for a redirect
• Redirects and SEO
• Why are redirects important
• Redirect Strategies
• Modules and tools

Redirect Module

Global Redirect

Stephen's iTerm2 configuration

Menu Link Attributes

This module allows you to add attributes to your menu links.

D7 Version - Menu Attributes

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

www.talkingdrupal.com/143

In episode #143 we talking about ordering content in Drupal, primarily using contributed modules.

• Creating a custom order for a view and why
• Module to look at
• Other options

Draggable Views

Weight

Node Order

Node Queue

Redirect Module

Manage redirects for pages, manually and automatically.

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

www.TalkingDrupal.com/142

In episode #142 we talk with J. Hogue about his upcoming presentation at Drupal Con Baltimore. We discuss the use of Atomic Design and Paragraphs to build the new Blue Cross Blue Shield website (www.bcbs.com)

• Overview of the BCBS project
• Role of Paragraphs
• Atomic Design
• Paragraphs and Atomic Design
• Drupal Con

Paragraphs

Honey Pot

Honeypot uses both the honeypot and timestamp methods of deterring spam bots from completing forms on your Drupal site (read more here). These methods are effective against many spam bots, and are not as intrusive as CAPTCHAs or other methods which punish the user.T he module currently supports enabling for all forms on the site, or particular forms like user registration or password reset forms, webforms, contact forms, node forms, and comment forms.

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

J. Hogue - www.oomphinc.com - @artinruins

www.talkingdrupal.com/141

In episode #141, we talk about getting comfortable with MySQL.

In episode #141, we talk about getting comfortable with MySQL.

• Get familiar with the Drupal database
• Why a SQL view is helpful
• The command line
• Modules that will help
• Tools
• Drush import/export

drush sql-dump > \~/db.sql

drush sql-drop

drush sql-cli

Backup and Migrate

Mysql Workbench

Sequel Pro

phpmyadmin

Force Password Change

This module allows administrators to force users, by role, individual user, or newly created user, to change their password on their next page load or login, and/or expire their passwords after a period of time.

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

www.TalkingDrupal.com/140

In episode #140 We walk about using composer.

• What is composer
• When to use composer
• What about drush?
• Composer and hosting providers
• Getting started

Group Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/group

The Group module allows you to create arbitrary collections of your content and users on your site and grant access control permissions on those collections

Out of the box, Drupal only allows a person to view, create or edit the different content types you create. However, you might want to be able to let them view or edit all content types, but only in a specific section of the site.

Group also allows you to create communities. Users of the site can become members of a Group. You can then decide what membership of a Group entitles them to, such as access to content only available to members of that Group. There can also be different levels of membership to a Group so, for example, you can have administrative members who can create content and basic members who can only view content within the Group.

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

In episode #139 we discuss the benefits of using an IDE for development.

• Do you use an IDE?
• Why use an IDE?
• Features
• XDebug
• IDE Variations

Custom Search

This module alters the default search box in many ways. If you need to have options available like in advanced search, but directly in the search box, this module is for you.

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

In episode #138 we talking about Translation in Drupal

• Composer OR drush, not both for dependency management
• Drupal-Composer Drupal Project

• Translation - what's new in Drupal 8
• What you can do 'out of the box'
• Tips for planning translation
• Human vs Machine translation
• Translation with LingoTek

• Views Data Export
• This module is designed to provide a way to export large amounts of data from views. It provides a display plugin that can rendered progressively in a batch. Style plugins are included that support exporting in the following types:
  • CSV
  • Microsoft XLS (or really simple HTML understood by Excel)
  • Microsoft DOC
  • Basic TXT
  • XML

  In addition proper support for Excel / the XLSX format can be added through the module Views Data Export PHPExcel.

• Acquia/Lingtek Webinar Drupal 7 vs Drupal 8 A Contrast of Multilingual
• Translations.com
• Composer -
• Drupal Composer

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

In episode #137 we discuss the Meta Tag Module with Damien McKenna

• Guest: Damien McKenna - Damien McKenna - In the Drupal community since 2007, Community Lead at Mediacurrent.
• What are Meta Tags?
• Why are Meta Tags important
• What is the Metatag module?
• Challenges as the maintainer

• Module page - https://www.drupal.org/project/metatag
• Issue queue - https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/metatag
• Tags Supported - https://groups.drupal.org/node/229413
• Open Graph (Facebook) Test - https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing
• Twitter Card Test - https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Damien McKenna - http://drupal.org/u/damienmckenna@DamienMcKenna