Blog
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Apr 11
Maintain a destination on Drupal user account menu
I came across a little problem this week when trying to create a nice user journey using the Drupal Subscriptions module. Basically I wanted to allow a user to subscribe to various taxonomy terms in one go rather than one at a time. This meant I need to take them to this element of user account page directly rather than using the term subscribe links that the module provides.
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Mar 22
Set the default language for CKEditor and spell check in Drupal
Sometimes things that should be soooo simple take the longest don't they - well this was one of them so I thought I'd share my knowledge in the hope it saves someone a bit of time again.
There are several ways to skin this proverbial cat (apologies to the cat lovers amoungst you). If you want set your editor language to something that has a unique prefix in the language string for example: 'de' then life is easy for you. All you need to do is set the editor language with:
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Jan 14
How to find bad a node that makes search indexing cause Drupal cron to fail
I recently hit a problem with cron failing to run on my site. After a good few hours trawling the web and finding that none of the normal advice seemed to help me. Eventually I came across the solution.
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Jan 7
How to order a Drupal view by node menu weight
Sometimes you want to repeat the items in your views list in your navigation and generally the way to do this is by putting each of the nodes in question in the menu, like this:
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Dec 24
Setting the FROM address in Drupal hosted on Bluehost
I wrote an article recently on some email issues I faced when hosting my Drupal site on Bluehost.....well guess what - I came up against some more fun. The problem that arose is that the Bluehost setup does not really allow you to set the FROM address of an email from Drupal.
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Dec 24
Send mail to your own domain on Bluehost
If you run a Drupal site and have ever looked at the recommend hosts (at the time writing this page seems to have been taken down) then you'll have come across Bluehost. Working on the assumption that the people who posted this information knew what they were talking about I went ahead and created an account.