How to uninstall a module in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell 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 replaced with newer or different functionality as your needs change. Eventually you may need to clean house and remove some of the modules. Follow the instructions below to delete a Read More >
How to set the maximum comments per page in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When working with your pages within your content types, you may want to control the number of comments allowed on your page. This setting allows you to set the number of comments that will appear on the page before shifting the remainder to other pages. For example, if you set the limit to 20 comments Read More >
How to change the Offline Message in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle When you set your Joomla 3.0 site to be in offline mode, the following message by default is shown to users: This site is down for maintenance. Please check back again soon. In this Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we’ll show you how to change this offline message. To change your Joomla 3.0 maintenance mode message: Log Read More >
How to put Joomla 3.1 in Offline Mode Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle If you’re making significant changes to your Joomla 3.0 website, you may want to put your website in offline mode. This will allow you to make and test changes to your website, while at the same time preventing the rest of the world from viewing those changes. In this Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we’ll show you Read More >
How to change your Site Name in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Your Site Name in Joomla 3.0 is used in several different places. For example, if you look at your HTML source code, you’ll see your site name listed in the title tag (if you have this setting enabled). If your template is designed to do so, you may also see your site name listed somewhere Read More >
How to set the rights meta tag in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Within Joomla 3.0 you have the option to set a rights meta tag. This setting within Joomla is referred to as Content Rights, and can be found in the Metadata Settings. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use the Content Rights setting in Joomla 3.0. To use a rights meta tag in Joomla Read More >
How to disable caching in Drupal 7 Views module Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When working with your site, it is generally a good idea to keep caching enabled for performance. This speeds up the site by keeping recent data in memory and displaying that same data for a specific time period. On your site, however, there may be a need for the visitor to see the data on Read More >
How to link to a view within a menu in Drupal 7 Views module Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell 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 have their own default settings. Some are attached to specific menus, others are not attached to a menu at all. If you want to change or add any view to Read More >
Hiding your Joomla version in the meta tags in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle In Joomla 3.0, you have the option to show / hide your Joomla version number. If you choose to show it, it will show as a meta generator tag, as in: <meta name=”generator” content=”Joomla! – Open Source Content Management – Version 3.0.0_Alpha1″ /> To toggle the showing of your version number in Joomla 3.0: Log Read More >
How to show the Author meta tag in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle The Author meta tag allows you to add a meta tag to your Joomla 3.0 pages that specifies who wrote the article. By default, the option is enabled, and adds code similar to the below to your pages: <meta name=”author” content=”Super User” /> To toggle the Show Author Meta Tag setting Log into your Joomla Read More >
Setting Index and Follow settings in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle The next Joomla 3.0 Metadata setting we will look at is the Robots setting. This setting will allow you to set the meta robots tag, which controls how search engines will crawl and index each of your pages. Example meta robots tag: <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, follow” /> To change your Robots settings in Joomla 3.0 Read More >
How to cancel a user account in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell 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 point. Drupal 7 makes it very easy to delete a user account. When you do so, Drupal gives you options on what to do with their contributions to your site. Read More >
How to block a user account in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell There may come a time when you need to block an account from having access to your site. In an ideal world, we would neer have to discipline site members, but it does happen. Also, you may want to disable accounts for anyone on vacation to further secure the account and site. Whatever your reason, Read More >
Changing the title for a view in the Drupal 7 Views Module Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell 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 individual display you have created. The settings can also be defined and changed either globally, as in for all displays for that view, or for just that particular display. This Read More >
How to add a text file for visitor download in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell There will be times when you want to offer your visitors a file for download. After adding the file field to your chosen content type, you may wonder how to place the file for upload onto your content page. This is done via the content editor within the Drupal 7 dashboard. You can follow along Read More >
How to add a download field in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell 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 to add the file for download is not standard for either the Article or Basic Pages content type. This article will walk you thorugh adding that field option to your Read More >
Enabling a view in Drupal 7 Views Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell Once you have the Views module installed and enabled, you may want to enable one of the stock modules, such as the Glossary or Archive views. All views are easily enabled for your site within the Drupal 7 Views module. Just follow the steps below to understand how to enable a view in Drupal 7. Read More >
Creating a block display for a View in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell 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 lists the articles much like a blog index does. Views also allows you to take the list you created and save it in a Block format, so it can be Read More >
Creating your first View in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell This article will guide you in creating a very basic view in Drupal 7. Views can be used to create very complex lists, but as we are just learning, we will be walking through the basic steps. This is designed to give you some familiarity to the Views module and make it a bit less Read More >
How to remove the label from an image field in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When you add an image field to a content type, that field will display a label by default. For instance, if you named the field ‘image’ then just above the picture you upload will be the word ‘IMAGE’. This may not be something you want to display on your pages. Drupal does have a way Read More >
