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Article: DrupalCamp London 2017
… DrupalCamp London 2017 was held on the 4th and 5th of March at the newly refurbished main hall of City, University of London. The new … Matt Glaman, who talked about his journey into development from his original career of a delivery driver. He is now an author, a … a synopsis of that experience. I will probably be writing one or two blog posts regarding the Webform module in the coming months, so I …
… A good security tip when installing your Wordpress blog is to change the database table prefix, the idea is that … tables from any hackers looking to compromise your blog. This can be done in the wp-config.php file and the variable $table_prefix . Changing …
Article: DrupalCamp London 2018
… London 2018 so I thought I would try to write up my experiences for the weekend. DrupalCamp London ran from 2nd to the 4th of March and … make it and a few sessions had to be rearranged. Thankfully, everyone made it to the camp in the end. The conference started with Ryan … who talked about Doing Well and Doing Good . This talk was based on a blog post from Dries, who talked about Acquia and how they support …
… When moving a Wordpress install from one place to another there are a number of things you must be aware of. … you have created your templates properly you will have used calls to bloginfo('home') rather than using static links, but you will need to …
… I just spend the last few minutes looking for the solution to this so I thought that someone else might be able to benefit from it. Calling the hook_form_alter() … not "node-form" but "contenttype-node-form". So in order to alter the blog node edit form you would create the following function: function …
Article: Drupal Features
… The Drupal Features module is a way of packaging site components with the ultimate aim of easing migration. For example, an events section in Drupal doesn't just contain a node … just blocks of functionality. The idea is that if you create a "blog" feature then you can package that and deploy it to multiple …
… I like working with DrupalVM and I've worked with Ansible based Vagrant setups … Vagrant, but you can run it with Docker if you like. When starting a new site project I normally add DrupalVM to the codebase so that I can … on what is in the recommended composer file see my previous blog post on the subject . After this step you can require any other …
… Understanding what it is that the client needs is an integral part of software development. The client will … client, you can save time by using MoSCoW. This is an abbreviation for M ust, S hould, C ould, W on't and can also be written as MSCW or a … work towards making sure these requirements are met. As an example, a blogging application is not much use if you can't post blogs. Should - …
Article: Drupal Camp London 2013
… I'm just letting all my neurons cool down after a fantastic Drupal Camp at City University, … London. These Drupal camps are getting bigger, better, and much more frequent in a really, feely, organic way. They never feel like … and modules. However, he was actually reading from a 2006 blog. Highlighting that not enough has changed and more can be done to …
… When adding a search form to your Wordpress blog you will want to have control over what sort … out the search query in the text field of the form. This can be done with the function the_search_query() , which will print out the …