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Drupal has a good potential to be used as a blog, forum (some what), wiki or any other dedicated web application or combination of two or more services. Drupal as a wiki, out of the box is a little weird. Problem is Drupal organizes wiki as book pages and books and book pages are related. Some people might not agree that book node/content type is a form of wiki but they can be used as one. Problem: The problem using Drupal book module and book pages as wiki is, the book page module adds book outline form part and the book outline menu as node/x/outline to all node types. All the node types do not need to be part of a book/wiki page. So this is the awkward part. I had to develop an application that had a wiki as a part with blogs and events as other services. So I faced this problem.

Drupal server-side cache improves performance. But when you are making customizations to the site, you sometimes need to clear this cache in order to see your update reflected. This tutorial shows you how to clear the Drupal server-side cache.

Drupal How to for Beginners mainly deals with setting up a Drupal website and adding, and editing some content.

Tutorial show how to modify the Drupal template and demonstrate the process of figuring out where to make template modifications.

Using View’s Relationships is quite simply a matter of knowing how “one piece of content relates to another”. If you can wrap your head around this simple concept, then all your complex Drupal views will be realized quickly.

The definition of a workflow, according to Wikipedia, is a “depiction of a sequence of operations”. When taken at face value, a workflow is typically something you want to automate in Drupal. In other words, what we’re talking about is Drupal Automation and my guess is, you’ll want to automate things in Drupal based on certain events.

Many content managed site have a site-search feature for users to search the entire site content for particular keywords. The functional is already built-in Drupal, you just have to enable it. And this tutorial will show you how.

Twitter me this, twitter me that,” can anyone listen to or read any Internet media news and not hear about Twitter? Not likely these days. It seems that celebrity and competition has driven Twitter to become that latest Internet fad.

Drupal is a very powerful content management system but it’s pretty clear that beginners have a though time using it, and the Drupal specific terms aren’t at all helpful. Yes, the taxonomy system is how content is categorized but why the hell don’t they just say categories?

The tutorial will show how to change the menu order of the primary menu of a Drupal site using the administrator interface.

Occasionally Drupal might display alert messages when you log into the administrator area. This tutorial will show you an example case and how we go about taking care of and subsequently clearing the alert message.

One of the most time-consuming tasks for any new Drupal site is setting up and testing what users can and can’t do. This is the realm of user permissions and role permissions. I’m guessing you’ve visited the checkbox maze - as I like to call it.

Drupal is all about two things, content and management. Ok, so that was a cheesy one about Drupal being a CMS. But,the biggest advantage Drupal has, as I see it, over many other CMS’s is both its flexibility and the number of contributions made to extend what it can do. Quite literly, there are new modules every week (RSS feed) which make Drupal do things you probably want it to do.

Whether you’re an avid blogger or you simply make the occasional post, there’s just something uncomfortable about editing long posts and working with pictures when you’re in a web browser. If you’ve heard of Ecto (mac), MarsEdit (mac), ScribeFire (firefox) or any of the other popular desktop blogging clients, then chances are you’ll want to use one of those tools to access and edit your Drupal blog.

Sooner or later you will need to upgrade Drupal. This tutorial will walk you through an upgrade example.

Download the Mollom module from the project page or from Mollom.com. Be sure to pick a version of the Mollom client that matches your version of Drupal. The module package should be placed with the rest of your contributed Drupal modules (generally, in "sites/all/modules" or "sites/default/modules").

You might be wondering what is the use of this article / tutorial when Drupal system of handling title and teasers is so good and there are modules like node teaser to customize the teaser as per your need. But lets picture a scenario you are developing a website with a custom front page (required by majority of websites) so you have created your page-front.tpl.php and created a panel kicking out your left and right sidebar selection and example below.

Is there any other activity more popular on the Internet than searching? Probably not. In fact, I’d be willing to double-down on that wager (I’m on the side of searching being the most popular if it wasn’t obvious). What’s that number one site on the nets? Oh yeah, it’s Google - and they do search.

Installing Drupal has gotten easier and easier throughout the years. It can be broken down into these steps. 1. Downloading and preparing the Drupal installation files 2. Setting up the mySQL database 3. Running the drupal install program

Dates and Calendars is an article extracted from Marjorie Roswells’s new book titled, ‘Drupal 5 Views Recipes’ by Packt Publishing. In this tutorial, users will learn how to create a wide variety of views, mostly from a single workshop content type. This chapter rounds out coverage of all of the Views User Interface fieldsets, including Exposed Filters.

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