Site Building

When we start working on a new Drupal site, we just want to get right into creating our own cool feature ideas. The Standard installation profile is very handy for that, but is it the right choice in the long run? Read on to find out what Thomas discovered when he tried something else.

Drupal Core will automatically delete files when it thinks they are no longer used. This can cause all sort of problems for sites and users, as well as be hard to tack down unless you know about it. The File Lock module is currently the best solution for preventing this and give your site users and administrators piece of mind.

Page Manager is the glue between Views and panels to let you create highly dynamic pages in a point-and-click user interface. Johan Falk has created a 13 part screencast series and here you can read my review of it.

Features will automatically perform updates when you upload a new version of a feature. In this post I will go over how you can get better control over this and make sure nothing is going wrong. I am also sharing my own checklist that I use when updating features on production sites.

Profile fields in Drupal 7 are not entities (Field API) and that gives you limited control over for example the user picture. ImageCache Profiles is a module that vastly improves this for you and in this post I will show you how.

Getting better control over deployment of sites as well as making changes or adding new features to existing sites is something that can be quite tricky with Drupal. In this post I will go over how the Features module can give you much better control over things and at the same time help you streamline you development process.

Earl Miles (merlinofchaos) has just merged a new and completely revamped Views 3 UI for Drupal 7 and it looks great. Find out more and watch an overview video in the article.