Drupal

This document is a work in progress…. One thing that we want to fix is ‘time to first load’. As you probably know, people are recommending to put as little in the way of initial loading as possible, and zero external requests. This means no blocking JS in head, and as little CSS as possible, […]

Delete users who have no role assigned, created no content and who have not logged in in a few years: DELETE u.* FROM users u LEFT JOIN users_roles r on u.uid = r.uid LEFT JOIN node n ON u.uid = n.uid WHERE r.rid IS NULL AND n.nid IS NULL AND u.login < 1400000000 AND u.uid > […]

A drush command to export a text file with all 404s on your site and how often they occur: drush sql-query “SELECT count(*) as num_rows, message from watchdog WHERE type = ‘page not found’ group by message order by num_rows desc;” –result-file=404s.txt

Steps to reproduce: 1. Add argument Global:Null (it might work with other arguments as well, but this seemed the least intrusive) 2. Go to ‘Specify validation criteria’ select ‘php code’ and add this: $view->set_items_per_page($argument); return true; You don’t need to change anything else in the argument – however in the ‘More’ section it might be […]

Over the past few versions of Drupal, there have been quite a few attempts to create a good way of creating page summaries/teasers/excerpts/extracts that you can use on the front page to encourage people to read the article. The version that comes out of the box with Drupal 7 works quite nicely if no text […]

(This post will be updated as we get a clearer idea of what is going on and how all the pieces fit together) We have made quite a few sites in Drupal 7, the largest being http://www.srichinmoycentre.org. Drupal has evolved into a really powerful framework that can enable you to bring together all kinds of […]