The Display suite is a powerful module which allows you to customise the node view page without writing any code. You can apply custom layouts as well as custom fields without a module. Configuration of this module is fully exportable with features.
In this post I'll show you how to get started and how to create a layout. In part 2 (coming soon), I'll show you how to create custom view modes and how to expose blocks as fields. Also don't forget to check out the Take Full Control of Your Site Layout with Display Suite for Drupal 7 video from DrupalCon London.
The Field Slideshow makes it easy to create a slideshow from just an image field.
With Fields in core for Drupal 7 we also got a more powerful display formatters for fields.
Fields now ship with their own formatter settings forms and make it really easy to change the display of a field, and Field Slideshow really make use of this.
For more details check out the Field Slideshow project page.
Using the GeoIP module with Context GeoIP module, it makes it really easy to create a context which has a specific condition to only display a block if your IP location is from a particular country.
Furthermore GeoIP has a powerful API to pull out location information.
In this article I’ll show you how to setup GeoIP and Context GeoIP module.
The Search API is a Drupal 7 search framework module. It allows you to create custom search pages on any URL and integrates with a few search backends.
In this article I’ll show you how to setup Search API with Apache Solr on a mac (10.6).
The backup and migrate module is an awesome module that you can use to create a MySQL dump file. You can use it to schedule database backups to the server filesystem, remote FTP server or even an amazon s3 bucket.
In this post I'll demonstrate how to setup a scheduled backup to a remote FTP server.
When I upgraded zugec.com to Drupal 7 I had to find another syntax highlighter because the previous one that I used in Drupal 6 was GeSHi but this module hadn't been upgraded to Drupal 7 at the time. I searched around and found Syntax Highlighter module which uses the SyntaxHighlighter library.
In this post I'll demonstrate how to setup and use SyntaxHighlighter in a Drupal 7 site.
When you get an editor asking how they can manage content on a Drupal site, sometimes you just can't send them to admin/content/node page to manage the site. Maybe you only want certain editors to manage only certain content types. With the Views 2 module it's easy to create custom administration pages.
When I say administration pages all that's really required is a table based views page with exposed filters.
On some Drupal sites having the taxonomy links point to the "taxonomy/term/tid" can really break the design of a site. Sometimes you want to redirect the user to a custom views page instead of the standard taxonomy page.
Using the Taxonomy Redirect module it's relatively easy to change the taxonomy URL.
If you are looking for a way to hide specific content types from the core Drupal search result then checkout the Search config module. It's a good idea to use this module if you are using the Content profile module so you can hide the profile node from appearing in your search result.
It does offer other functionality, but I'll just show you how to hide a content type from the search result.
