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Drupal Tutorial: Form Overrides and Element-Specific Validations Image

Drupal Tutorial: Form Overrides and Element-Specific Validations

Chris | Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 24 comments

Last week, I was working on some Drupal form customizations and validations for a client’s site (launching soon) and thought I’d share how you can easily alter Drupal forms. That is, if you know how and where to tap in.

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19 Essential WordPress Plugins That Every Professional Website Should Use Image

19 Essential WordPress Plugins That Every Professional Website Should Use

Matt | Monday, March 30th, 2009 40 comments

Pretty bold title, huh? Well, I’ve been a fan of WordPress for years. I’m an avid supporter of the robust and highly intuitive blogging platform and have contributed to the WordPress community over the past few years by launching a professional WordPress themes website, creating a useful plugin (Twitter ReTweet) for Twitter/WordPress integration, and advocating the use of WordPress to clients and friends alike.

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Drupal Tutorial: Adding a ‘Related Posts By This Author’ Block With Views Image

Drupal Tutorial: Adding a ‘Related Posts By This Author’ Block With Views

Chris | Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 28 comments

In this post, I’m going to show you how you can easily leverage the power of Views 2 to create a simple block that displays “Related Posts by this Author” information. To break it down, here’s exactly what we need to do: when a user has navigated to a specific node, we want to use that node author’s user ID as a key to load other posts by that author.

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15 Common Drupal Problems That Make You Scream (Solutions Included) Image

15 Common Drupal Problems That Make You Scream (Solutions Included)

Chris | Saturday, February 21st, 2009 17 comments

Whether you are a Drupal newcomer or a seasoned Drupal ninja, you’re bound to run into one, some, or all of the issues outlined below. Some are obvious, some not so obvious, but I’ll show you how to troubleshoot them all regardless.

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11 Reasons Why a Web CMS Will Make Your Life Easier and Your Wallet Fatter Image

11 Reasons Why a Web CMS Will Make Your Life Easier and Your Wallet Fatter

Matt | Monday, August 4th, 2008 18 comments

Nearly every website owner or web developer has asked this question at one time or another: Why should I use a Web Content Management System (WCMS)? If you value your time, money, and sanity, then there are several reasons why using a Web CMS is superior to hand-coding a website.

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