Drupal Tutorials
From time to time a user may not be able to edit a Drupal node and you end up tearing your hair out trying to figure out why. Sometimes the solution is obvious, and sometimes it is not. This post will take you through some of the main reasons for the problem along with suggested solutions.
How to configure a Drupal multisite setup
Upgrading to a new version of Drupal puts the fear of god into a lot of people. However, it does not need to be scary or time consuming. Because Drupal is highly modular, upgrading is a fairly painless exercise. Furthermore, it is necessary to maintain the latest version of your Drupal branch to ensure that you have the latest security patches.
Using the Pathauto module is a quick and easy way of automatically creating meaningful URL's. Instead of having to type in a URL path manually for each node (page, story etc) yourself, it will do it automatically based on set criteria, like the category it belongs to and the title.
One of the annoying things about changing the number of characters for teasers in Drupal is that you have to edit and save every single node (page, story etc) for the change to take effect. Thats ok if you only have 10 pages, but what if you have 1000 or even 10,000 pages? Nightmere times.
If you are using Drupal on share hosting, you have probably experienced a white screen. You see nothing on the screen. You had might as well be skiing in a blizzard. This generally happens when PHP runs out of memory and is one of the biggest problems with shared hosting.
But do not panic. It is fairly easy to fix in most cases.
Drupal is a fantastically powerful content management system. But that power comes at one very significant cost, speed. A Drupal powered site may suffer from slow page loads.
This very blog is powered by Drupal, and I admit that at times its speed is on the slow side. I have recently found a few ways to improve the speed.
Drupal does have some SEO holes when used straight out of the box. In this article, I will list the major flaws and how to overcome them.
Drupal is a great system, but one of its flaws is the existence of multiple routes to the same content. This effectively creates duplicate content. Search engines like Google do not like duplicate content and you are likely to be penalised for it.