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Enable Caching Caching allows the server to store copies of webpages on the server. This allows the pages to load faster and reduce the overall Read More >

Drupal allows you to further customize your website by setting up search engine optimized URLs called aliases. In this tutorial, we’ll explain further what URL Read More >

Though you can use the Fantastico tool to install Drupal, sometimes Fantastico may not have the most up to date version. If you wish to Read More >

A cron job is script on the server that is set to run at specific intervals. When you install Drupal 7, it configures its own Read More >

Drupal 7 is a highly customizable content management system that has literally hundreds of free themes to change the look and feel of your installation. Read More >

Welcome to part two of the menu creation tutorial series. At this point, we have already created a new menu in Drupal 7 and are Read More >

When creating content in Drupal 7, whether it is an Article, a Basic Page, or other type of content, you have the ability to set Read More >

In addition to changing to a new theme completely with preset color combinations, you may want to experiment with different color sets to change the Read More >

Instead of disabling the favicon on your Drupal 7 theme, you may choose to switch out the stock favicon with your own custom favicon. This Read More >

Instead of disabling the logo on your Drupal 7 theme, you may choose to switch out the stock logo with your own custom company logo. Read More >

You may want to hide the site name that appears on your themes. This can be done via a global setting or by individual theme Read More >

You may want to hide the site slogan that appears on your themes. This can be done via a global setting or by individual themes Read More >

Drupal themes allow the option for user images (also known as avatars) to display next to their names in posts and comments. You may want Read More >

Drupal 7 gives the ability for users to have a picture displayed next to their names in posts and comments. These can be stock or Read More >

If you allow users to comment while they are not logged in, they will have a ‘not verified‘ tag next to their name in the Read More >

You may want to hide the favicon, also called the shortcut icon that appears on your themes. This can be done via a global setting Read More >

You may want to hide the main menu that appears on the different pages of your themes. This can be done via a global setting Read More >

You may want to hide the secondary menu that appears on the site pages of your themes. This can be done by either using the Read More >

The Site Name in Drupal 7 is the main title that your visitors see on your page as well as well as the the title Read More >

Now that we know the idea behind blocks in Drupal 7, we can create a new block. In the following tutorial we’ll show you how Read More >

The front page of your Drupal site is often used to display content previews for your other pages. You may have seen this on the Read More >

Within the core Drupal 7, only Articles have the ability to add images to the content by default. This can be enabled for Basic Pages Read More >

In your Drupal 7 dashboard, there are many settings that you can customize when working with images, such as setting maximum or minimum image sizes. Read More >

One of the many options you will be able to set when working with images in Drupal 7 is the title field. The title field, Read More >

When working with images, Drupal 7 stores those that are uploaded in a specific folder. This folder varies with different content types. With the Article Read More >

When you have specific content types such as Articles, Basic Pages, Blog Entries, etc. you may want to give some uniformity to specific types. Maybe Read More >

When working with content types in Drupal 7 and you decide to add an image, a preview of that image will show in the editor Read More >

In our last article, we created a very simple view as a page. This page appears as on the main menu of the site and Read More >

When working with your content pages, there may come a time when you want to allow your visitors to download a text file. The ability Read More >

Once you have your view created, you can see there are several settings to help you customize and define it. The settings show for each Read More >

As your site grows and expands, members will come and members will go. There will be a need to cancel a user’s account at some Read More >

When adding custom views to your site, there is a checkbox that enables you to add the view as a menu item. The default views Read More >

Drupal modules are a very useful part of your site. You may activate and utilize many different ones as your site matures. Some will be Read More >

When working with comments, there are several settings you can use to customize the look and feel for your site. One of these is the Read More >

Fantastico, a feature in cPanel that helps you easily install programs to your account, is no longer available. As of September 17th, 2012, Fantastico has Read More >

When customizing your site to best represent you or your company, you will want to change some areas from the default displays. One of these Read More >

There are several ways for creating content for your site in Drupal 7. The most common method is to create a post, page, or article. Read More >

In the previous tutorial, we showed you how to block an IP in your Drupal 7. There may be times you need to remove the Read More >

Drupal 7 has many reporting features built into it. One of the first reports you may use is the status report. The status report will Read More >

Drupal 7 contains a report referred to as the access denied report. This report will show you any 403 errors that have occurred on your Read More >

After learning how to set the Image Style Preview in the last article, you may need or want a bit more customized image style. Perhaps Read More >

Many people want to leverage the power of social media to let people know about their site. Adding the code for the facebook like on Read More >

One of the greatest threats to any website is outdated software. You will want to stay up to date with your Drupal 7 site. Updates Read More >

Using different social media tools within your site can help improve the quality of the site and overall visitor experience. The YouTube module lets you Read More >

When administering a Drupal site, it’s a good idea to make a duplicate site for testing purposes. This allows the administrator to make large changes Read More >

The information in this article has been transcribed from a presentation of the Drupal Group (drupal.mn) at The Nerdery on April 12th, 2012. This was Read More >

The information in this article has been transcribed from the Streamline inline editing in Drupal 8 video uploaded by Dries Buytaert about the upcoming changes Read More >

This article will guide you on how to install Drupal 8 manually. There are several steps to installing Drupal 8: Create the database Upload the Read More >

While there are a few different content types in Drupal 8, there are only two that are available by default. These are the Article and Read More >

Out of the many different content types in Drupal 8, there are only two that are available by default, the Article and the Basic Page. Read More >

While there are may different content types available in Drupal 8, they may not fit your exact situation. In this article, we will cover how Read More >

When working with content types such as Articles and Basic Pages, etc you will have the ability to configure whether they show in the navigation Read More >

When working with your nodes (content unit such as Articele, page, etc), they are assigned a default node identifier. This identifier becomes part of the Read More >

As you create content nodes in Drupal 8 each node is saved and can be accessed individually. If you wish, you can have content display Read More >

As you customize the look of your site, you will pay special attention to the front page of your site. Once you promite node content Read More >

By default, the main page of Drupal 8 is set up to perform much like the front page of a blog. It displays excerpts of Read More >

Although there are several default menus in the Drupal core, you have the ability to create your own custom menu from within the admin interface. Read More >

Adding item links to your menus Links are the meat and potatos of a menu. When clicked, they will send the visitor to another node Read More >

After creating and adding links to your custom menu, you will want to place it somewhere on your site. This is done by assigning the Read More >

Once you have created your menu, it is quite possible that you will add additional item links later and at some point, need to rearrange Read More >

This quick tutorial will cover how to delete any of the custom menus you created in Drupal 8. Note that this is for deletion, in Read More >

When working with Drupal 8, there are some menu categories that cannot be deleted, such as the Main and Secondary menus. These can, however, be Read More >

When working with themes in Drupal 8, you will want to know how to switch between themes that have been enabled. To that end, you Read More >

After the initial installation of your Drupal site is complete, you will want to begin to make it your own. One of the first things Read More >

Themes are visually important to your site. They help by laying out the site in a specific way and even the coloring of the theme Read More >

While themes come with their own predefined color sets that you can choose from, you may want to select some custom colors for your site. Read More >

When customizing your theme, there may be individual changes that you want to make such as removal of the Drupal logo from your header. In Read More >

One of the things you may want to do after removing or disabling the stock Drupal logo from your theme is to replace it by Read More >

One of the minor customizations we get asked about is replacing the stock Drupal favicon with a custom one. The favicon is the small icon Read More >

Drupal modules help you extend the functionality of your site. While there are quite a few that come with the Drupal 8 core set, you Read More >

This article is part 2 of our two part article on manually installing Drupal 7. The first part took you through database and file setup. Read More >

In this tutorial: Creating a Revision Restoring a Revision When creating / editing pages in Drupal 8, you’ll see a feature labelled, Create new revision. Read More >

Now that you have installed and configured Drupal 7, most of your tasks will be done through the Drupal 7 dashboard. You will be able Read More >

Drupal 7 is extremely versatile and has many customization features. In addition to the themes your site visitors see, Drupal allows you to change the Read More >

Drupal 8 has a slightly different approach to Clean URLs than the previous versions. The old dirty URLs such as https://example.com/?q=home have been replaced with Read More >

Now that you have enabled the forum module and created your first forums, you will want to begin to customize the forums section of your Read More >

After enabling the forum module, you will want to begin to create your new community by adding new forums to your website. By default, your Read More >

Drupal 7 comes with many modules pre-installed with the default installation, but not all of then are enabled out of the box. The contact form Read More >

You have learned how to create new forums for your Drupal 8 site, but you may end up needing to remove existing forums altogether from Read More >

One of the more common pages found on websites is the contact form page. This is normally a page with some type of a form Read More >

Once you have configured your contact form, you can now attach the contact form to your menu. This way the contact form can be found Read More >

Blogging is one of the more popular online activities and the main reason some people create a website. For Drupal 8, however, the Blog module Read More >

Now that you have installed the “contact” module in Drupal 7, it’s time to create and configure the contact form. Log into your Drupal Dashboard Read More >

Once your blog module has been installed and enabled, you will be ready to begin adding blog entries. Below is a quick guide on how Read More >

A Drupal 7 module is an extension for Drupal that either adds new functionality to your site or enhances current features. There are many modules Read More >

After creating a field type, such as a comment, for a particular content type you will notice that the field’s label will appear on the Read More >

After creating your comment field for your blog post content type it will appear in every blog post node that is created. However, you may Read More >

Part of the administrative duties of your website will be user control. Most users will simply create an account from your main page, however you Read More >

Before being able to add the contact form into your main menu, you should have already installed the contact module and configured the settings. Now, Read More >

Drupal 7 has the ability to gain extra functionality through the use of modules. Modules can provide many different additional features such as banners, forms, Read More >

When managing member within your Drupal site, you will have the capability to regulate who can sign up. Some sites will want to allow open Read More >

Within Drupal 8 there are a few different canned emails that can are used for different situations. Some are sent at the end of the Read More >

It is very exciting to watch your membership numbers for your site grow and you never want to see them leave. There will be times, Read More >

A forgotten password. This can send a second of terror through any site member as they try unsuccessfully to log in. This article will guide Read More >

Now that you know how to create basic pages in Drupal 7, you can set one or more of those pages to be on your Read More >

While comments are connected to the article content type by default in Drupal 8, there are others that do not. In these cases, such as Read More >

After creating your comment field for a specific content type, you will want to customize its settings so that it fits your ultimate design. This Read More >

Even though you have learned how to add a comment field to a content type, you are not obligated to keep the comment on each Read More >

Most content types in Drupal 8 do not have comments enabled by default, but the Article type does. You may disable comments on a node Read More >

In our last few articles, we introduced you to the idea of Search Engine Friendly URLs and walked you through the steps for enabling clean Read More >

One of the different settings you can adjust for your comments is the comment title, or the subject. By default, members are allowed to enter Read More >

Comments are great for allowing members to interact with one another, creating a community feel for your site. By default, Drupal allows the registered members Read More >

By default, once a comment is submitted in Drupal 8, it can only be edited by administrators. You may want to give your members the Read More >

Drupal 8, by default, does not allow non-registered users to leave comments. If you want to allow visitors to be able to leave comments on Read More >

By default, only the Article content type has the image field enabled. You may enable this for other content types if desired. Note that this Read More >

When you work with the image fields for the different content types in Drupal 8, you have the ability to determine what image types you Read More >

You may find it necessary to block a specific IP address from accessing your Drupal 7 website. Perhaps they are a spammer or have been Read More >

One of the many image settings you can use to tailor the look and feel of your site is that of size. You can set Read More >

When working with images, you may want to restrict them in ways that will help keep your site optimized. While you may limit them in Read More >

When you upload images for an image field in Drupal 8, they will be stored in one of two default folders, sites/default/files/field/image (for those with Read More >

During the initial installation of Drupal 7, you were never asked for a slogan; however you can easily add one. A slogan is a basic Read More >

When you are working with specific content types, particularly custom ones, you may want to ensure a level of uniformity even when some parts are Read More >

You can change the time zone for your Drupal 7 website at any time. You can even allow users of your website to set their Read More >