Category: Drupal
How to Purge Comment Spam from Drupal
I recently wrote about a spam comment problem I had that was so bad it effectively took down my website. Fortunately by rooting around in the database for my installation for a few minutes, I was able to remove all of the spam in bulk, rather than manually deleting the...
Image Module Breaking Drupal
Apparently the Image module I've got installed is breaking the current install of Drupal (at least with my server configuration). I don't have enough time to try and get everything working with that module again, so if any images are suddenly missing, that would be why.
Taxonomy Menu Generation
I like to tag the posts on this site with the categories that they fit in, to make the navigation of the site easier. Of course, for this to be worth the effort, a menu is called for, a menu that contains links to each of these categories so all...
Moving Drupal Between Two Servers
Although this guide is targeted towards being used with an Ubuntu server, it should be easy to adapt it to other distributions assuming the same basic components are in place (a server running Apache, Mysql and PHP), and if the reader understands any difference in file locations on their distribution...
Preparing Ubuntu Server for Drupal
In light of my recent experiences with moving Drupal onto a backup server, it seems like a good time to do a short write up of the things that are required to get Drupal up and running on Ubuntu Server - not the actually installation of Drupal on that server...
Path and Pathauto Modules in Drupal
Minutes before moving my thoughts blog to a new directory, I configured the pathauto module to automatically rename the path to each story to reflect its title rather than reading node/#. I had been meaning to do this for quite a while, and it turned out to be quite simple...
Images in Posts in Drupal Tutorial
This guide walks the reader through the steps of configuring a Drupal installation to allow Drupal users not only have images displayed within posts but also to configure the position and size of the images. First download all the required modules to your webserver, these modules are: * [Image](http://drupal.org/project/image) module...
Drupal Editor Android App
One of the nicest aspects of having a smart phone is the easy access to the Internet that it can provide for you almost anywhere you go. No more hoping that a coffee shop has WiFi or having to wait to look up the answer to that nagging question up...
Inline Images in Drupal
One of the rare struggles that i have had with Drupal so far is correctly positioning images within the body of a post. By default you can't do anything more than upload the image so that it can be downloaded by readers. The [Image](http://drupal.org/project/image) module allows you to attach an...