Drupal Development
I’ve been building websites, applications, and online systems with Drupal since 2010 - which in Drupal years probably makes me something close to a dinosaur already. Over the past 15+ years I’ve worked across multiple Drupal generations, from older procedural builds to modern Drupal 10 and 11 architectures. This section is where I share practical Drupal knowledge, including custom modules, debugging tricks, workflow improvements, performance optimizations, and the countless small fixes that usually come only from maintaining real production systems for years.
Alongside Drupal itself, a large part of the work involves the surrounding infrastructure that keeps everything running reliably. That includes Ubuntu servers, Nginx configurations, deployment workflows, caching, SSL, database tuning, automation scripts and more.
How To Setup Pretty URL's For Drupal 8
It seems just yesterday I wrapped a simple Drupal tutorial on how to enable pretty URL's for Drupal 7 site. Turns out already three years have passed. Time flies, newer versions of Drupal emerges,…
Theming Drupal 8: How To Include the Facebook JavaScript SDK
That time have come - and I have started to officially develop my first Drupal 8 site - I won't go into details by comparing Drupal 8 vs Drupal 7 or Drupal 6 (as I think that's a topic for another…
How to List Related Tags on Drupal Taxonomy Pages Using Views
Make sure you check out my previous article How to List Drupal Child Terms on Taxonomy Pages with Views as today I will extend a little bit my previous tutorial and at the end we will add…
How To Sync Drupal RSS Feed to Mailchimp
RSS is not dead, it's more than alive - nowadays it's used to sync content across services and devices. After finishing installing push notifications for my blog I decided to re-check my e-mail…
How to List Drupal Child Terms on Taxonomy Pages with Views
I spent a good amount of time at Monday's evening to actually figure this out. In today's Drupal Tutorial - How to List Drupal Child Terms on Taxonomy Pages with Views. This issue has been on…
How To Setup Web Push Notifications for Drupal or Any Site using PushEngage
Push Notifications seems are hot and worth to invest trend nowadays. I have seen them around for about last 6 months in blogs, portals and other websites. In fact I have always chose to block…
How to Upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 LTS
In this article I will provide simple instructions on how to upgrade Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. In fact I didn't wanted to push for a server upgrade for a while, but decided to do it now, and not…
How To Enable PHP Curl Ngnix (Good for Social share counters)
Today I was eager to install and enable really cool Drupal module for my blog - Social Share Counter, this module looked simple - all I had to do, just download, enable and a little bit tweak around…
How to Upgrade PHP 5.3 to 5.5.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 to Support Drupal 8
That day finally have come and I've officially started a new project on my first Drupal 8 website. While my first attempts were about two years ago, but due to the lack of time and will to…
LEMP Server Ubuntu 12.04 for serving Drupal on Nginx
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup a LEMP stack on Ubuntu 12.04 for serving a Drupal site (s). Update: I originally started this post to document my setup for actually configuring Nginx…
How to Fix Missing MarkeClusterer Icons for Drupal Gmap Module
I have been using Drupal + Mapping for years already. My most favorite combination Location + Gmap module for entering and displaying location info. Recently I did upgrade for Gmap module for…
Drupal Patch For Location Module To Update Province List for Latvia With Latest Data
Made a simple Drupal patch for Location module to display latest administrative divisions of Latvia. Default one is still showing outdated data using old "Rayon" as administrative divisions of…
Drupal String Overrides For Comment form + Translated Month names
In yesterday's article How to hide Drupal comment Subject line and help text I talked about a simple and neat module Simplify, with help of whom I was able to get rid of confusing Subject line…
How to hide Drupal comment Subject line and help text
There are several ways of hiding Input format options for Drupal comments, the simplest (but the wrongest) way is by just hiding area with CSS (display:none), second - you can…
Drupal - How To Add Read More Link To Copied Text (addtocopy)
Time after time I have received negative comments on my blog, where users were complaining about disabled copy functionality from my blog - For a very long time I had disabled to copy any text…
How to replace all "http" hyperlink with "https" Drupal
Recently I made a switch from http to https. I was pretty pleased with results, and started to wait for possible SEO boost from Google. As time passed, instead of boost some traffic drop started…
How to add Custom Markers for Gmap Module Drupal
Gmap custom markers are cool way to enhance your Drupal site. My blog heavily really on Drupal Views + Gmap + Location module. Most of the articles listed in Restaurant reviews, tourist attractions…
Drupal IMCE very slow on uploading images - here is how to fix
It has been about a year, since I noticed IMCE upload is damn slow when uploading images for my photo stories or just any other articles. For a very long time I was convinced that it's some…
Let's Encrypt to fix HTTPS Certificate incompatibility with Windows XP and Google Chrome
It was about a month ago - when I successfully installed secure https pages for my blog, I opted for using free certificate provided by Let's Encrypt certificate authority. I first heard Let's…
How to Speed up your Drupal site: CDN integration using KeyCDN
In today's Drupal development series I will show how easy you can setup a true CDN for your Drupal site using third party CDN provider - KeyCDN. Get a free $10 bonus by …
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