Submitted by ivan on Thu, 19/08/2010 - 09:06
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.
Submitted by ivan on Sat, 10/07/2010 - 15:42
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.
Submitted by ivan on Wed, 12/05/2010 - 08:09
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.
Submitted by ivan on Tue, 04/05/2010 - 20:07
Views slideshow module is a great module which allows you to create slideshows from a views results. It makes it very easy to create a block that rotates the latest blog posts for example.
Submitted by ivan on Wed, 31/03/2010 - 18:43
A project that I’m currently working on requires a classifieds system which is fairly straight forward to setup. I’m using the location module for users to specify a location of the classified. To make the search easy I created a simple views page with exposed filters, but I wanted to have a select field with only Australian states.
Out of the box the location module only gives you an exposed autocomplete field for the state/province.
Submitted by ivan on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 17:58
The Search Lucene API module is an alternative search module which can be used on your Drupal site. It's powered by a stripped down version of the Zend Lucene Search which is a PHP port of Apache Lucene. Because it's all PHP do don't have to worry about running the search on a separate server or setup other applications to run the search.
Submitted by ivan on Tue, 19/01/2010 - 18:12
The diff module let’s you view the difference between node revisions. It adds a tab on every node page where you can see a list of revisions which you can control via permissions.
Submitted by ivan on Wed, 13/01/2010 - 06:24
The demonstration site module is a great tool if you want to create a public Drupal demo site. You can set it up to import a fresh database each hour. Let me explain how I use it.
Submitted by ivan on Wed, 30/09/2009 - 20:31
Nice menus is a module which let's you have expandable drop-down menus. All you have to do is create your own menu structure. If you want to customise the look and feel you can override some CSS. Please note that in this tutorial I am using the 6.x-2.x-dev release because it's most up to date version.
Submitted by ivan on Tue, 29/09/2009 - 20:42
The paging module gives you the ability to separate the text within the node body field into pages using the <!--pagebreak--> tag within the text.
