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The Week in Drupal: December 21, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:11:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 21, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: December 14 - 21, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.18 and 6.27 released - Security update: SA-CORE-2012-004 - Drupal core - Multiple vulnerabilities

DrupalCon Portland 2013: Call for Papers is now Open!

Great Posts and Tutorials

Implementing a donation system with Drupal Commerce

Skipping a Commerce Checkout page in the checkout workflow

Module Monday: Backup and Migrate

Screencast: Drupal 7 Automated Logout

Add custom Contextual Links to Drupal node teaser pages

Introducing Field formatter conditions for Drupal

Mistakes Agencies Make: A Story in Three Acts

Interesting New Modules

Node Field Privacy - Allows you to have an optional “private” status attached to fields. When the private box is checked, only the node author and site admins can see the value of the field.

Views fieldset style plugin - Adds the ability to show views rows as fieldset.

Content Create Access - Allows you to specify for each user which node types they may create. (without using roles)

Apachesolr Link - Enables the indexing of the target of a Link field along with the entity it is attached to in the Apache Solr search index.

Bibliography ISBN - A Bibliography dependent module that will create Biblio nodes based on ISBNs.

Advanced Poll Field Image - Sub-module for Advanced Poll to add Image in Choices.

Crossdomain - Creates a crossdomain.xml file for Flash files. Allows you to use a configuration screen to add additional domains.

Domain Language - Adds a new detection/selection method on the language selection and it allow to set the default language for a specific domain.

Event Confirm - Make the user confirm their action before executing it, with a popup. For example, “This will delete everything, OK?”

Pathauto for RDF - Creates readable paths for RDF versions of nodes.

GAPI - General Purpose Web Services Connector API

Wayne EakerDecember 21, 2012

Business Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Javascript Search Security Solr Views module

The Week in Drupal: November 2, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:50:08 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 2, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 26 - November 2, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 8 announcements: Proposal for RESTful entity API

Drupal 8 announcements: Don’t reimplement support for arbitrary tail paths

Great Posts and Tutorials

Talking to Drupal with Node.js

Creating a Drupal Slideshow with Views Slideshow

Moving Forward with Open Atrium 2.0

Making Drupal more User Friendly

Announcing PixGather - A mobile app to upload pictures to a Drupal site.

Corralling permissions into a grid

Memory usage revisited: when the Open Buffet is not to blame, rather Views

Message-subscribe — A New Subscription System

Interesting New Modules

Transclude - Defines an input filter that uses special tags to insert the contents of an external web page into text. For example, this can be useful is as a way of inserting the text of Wikipedia articles into nodes and having that text automatically updated whenever the Wikipedia article changes.

Word Link - Allows you to replace certain words with links.

Responsive Preview - View the site in different sizes easily with this module. A toolbar is displayed at the top with the configured resolutions. Click one and an iframe appears with the correct size applied. Great for developing responsive designs.

Apache Solr Document Links - Adds indexing of external links the Apache Solr Search Integration module.

Taxonomy Tree Block - Generates blocks of formatted taxonomy menu blocks (in a tree format) on a vocabulary basis.

Bulk User Delete - Allows you to bulk delete users through the admin interface. You provide a list of email addresses, one per line, and the users are deleted using the batch processing API.

Drifter - Allows any field to be floated left or right by providing a simple field formatter setting. A common use-case is floating images off to the side of a node.

Taxonomy Node Type - Automatically adds a taxonomy term to a node based on the node type.

Drupal Commerce MailChimp - This module integrates Drupal Commerce with the Mailchimp API’s ECommerce 360 feature for tracking store statistics for email campaigns sent via MailChimp.

Context Resolution - Extends the Context module with two additional conditions that enable developers to adapt to the users current screen resolution or browser width/height by using context reactions.

Date Facets - Provides date range facets similar to major search engines. (“Past hour”, “Past 24 hours”, “Past week”, etc.)

OG Invite People - Adds a missing invite functionality for OG 7.x-2.x.

Media OG Access - Allows limiting media browser list to media in current group or group subscriptions that the current user is a member of.

Wayne EakerNovember 2, 2012

The Week in Drupal: October 26, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:03:14 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 26, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 19 - 26, 2012.

Drupal News

Dries Buytaert: Draft for Drupal Community Working Group charter

Registration is open for DrupalCamp Ohio 2012

Great Posts and Tutorials

Explaining the Drupal < 7.16 Installer vulnerability

So You Want to Build a Drupal Product…

Profile Builder: The Features module of Distribution development

An Introduction to the Imagefield Crop Module

Drupal not saving admin pages with large number of input fields

Testing Drupal distributions using Behat, Mink, Drupal Extension, and Travis CI

Rules won’t work properly when run during cron, if you use node access restrictions

Simple contact form per content item with Entityform

Remote entities in Drupal 7

Building Drupal Style Tiles using Foundation and SCSS

Interesting New Modules

ACL File Access - Adds the access control per user over individual file.

Commerce Coupon by Terms - Allows coupons to apply to products tagged with specific taxonomy terms.

apachesolr_csv - Takes the search results from an ApacheSolr search and uses them to generate a CSV file

Site issue tracker - Aimed at making development of a site simpler by listing page-specific issues of a webpage on the page (above the content)

Nodewords Twitter - Support module for nodewords that allows creation of meta tags used by Twitter as detailed here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards

Bootstrap optimizer - Speeds up Drupal bootstrap process. See the module page forma description of how.

Entity Translation Tabs - Gives site editors an edit tab for each language that your site supports.

Message-subscribe - Provide a subscription system built on Flag 2.x and Message-notify 2.x.

RGraph Thermometer - Fundraiser thermometer.

Panels, Why so slow? - Shows you how many milliseconds each pane takes to render.

User Search to People Administration - Moves user search into the user admin area.

APC Flush - An APC opcode cache flush automator for high performance Drupal-setups.

Wayne EakerOctober 26, 2012

Behavior Driven Development Drupal Drupal 7 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community Entity API FieldAPI High Performance Imagefield module Install Profiles Panels module Rules module Search Security Solr Testing Theming

The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:59:38 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 21 - 28, 2012.

Drupal News

Voting Open - Community Elections 2013

Dries Buytaert: Views in Drupal 8 and Views in D8 Core Update from Earl

Feedback needed: Should .info files support arbitrary PHP constants?

DrupalPicchu 2014

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal-Salesforce Integration: A State of the Union, pt. 1

Module Monday: RSS Field Formatters

Properly Getting Field Data on Entities (Nodes)

Next Steps for Drupal Commerce

& Modules">Leveling Up Your Themer (lvl0): Contributed Themes & Modules

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part II

Understanding Drupal 8’s plugin system

Interesting New Modules

Better Views Tables - Provides a style plugin for Views which extends the default tables integration and adds some new features: Improved markup for HTML5 sites Responsive table options.

Webform Feeds - adds the ability to use Webform submissions as a source for a Feeds importer.

Mobile Menu Toggle - Creates a block with a “Menu” link that, when clicked, initializes a jQuery slideToggle effect to hide or show the Menu Zone of the Omega Theme.

PDF Construction Kit - The purpose of this module is to create PDFs out of different nodes from the site. It allows you to select different nodes and render them as a single PDF out of those elements.

Render As - Adds the ability for elements to be rendered as a specific user and/or role(s), which can be used for the purposes of testing how content will be seen by another user or a user or a particular role without having to change users.

Mozilla Persona - This module adds Mozilla Persona functionality to your site. Users will be able to login and create an account using this system.

Views URL args - Use URL-provided arguments in views filter criteria, which is currently more flexible than Contextual Filters.

Two-Pass Tokens - “There are some contexts which are built up in the admin interface (Rules comes to mind), in which we want to pull in user-supplied content (in my case, the body of an email). A great feature would be to allow the user-generated content to support tokens in the same context in which it is used.”

Context Reaction: Main Menu - Allows the Context module to change the main menu of the site.

Wayne EakerSeptember 28, 2012

Analtyics Context module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community E-Commerce Feeds module FormAPI Menus Mobile Theming Token module Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: September 21, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:40:11 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 21, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 14 - 21.

Drupal News

Drupal Association News: Update Election 2013

New Case studies section on Drupal.org

Drupal core announcements: Feedback needed on how themes should declare their layouts

Great Posts and Tutorials

Symfony and Drupal 8: The lowdown from Symfony Live London

Drupal Commerce - Different prices for different customer groups

Module Monday: Clientside Validation

Drush Tip: Quickly Sync Files Between Your Environments With Rsync

Taming FacetAPI paths

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part 1

Interesting New Modules

Composite Views Filter - Allows you to create one filter condition that enables several filter conditions.

Leafbean - Leaflet + Bean for a simple map block - Using an addressfield, the user can enter an address that will be geocoded into a rendered leaflet map.

Open Badge-It - This module allows you to create badges, award them to users and allow users to issue their badges to an obi compliant backpack like Mozilla’s Open Badges Infrastructure.

Image or Video field formatter - Adds a field formatter for a media field that can either be an image or a video.

Worbench Moderation OG - This module allows integration between workbench moderation and organic groups. Organic group roles can be defined to be responsible to perform different transitions that will move content from the different stages.

Workbench Email - Provides a way for administrators to define email transitions and configurable email subject / messages between those transitions.

Feeds Readability Parser - A Feeds parser plugin that extracts the title and content of a webpage using a PHP port of Readability.

Raptorize - This module will enable frontend, inline editting using the HTML5 Raptor editor. Raptor is a HTML5, JQuery UI enabled editor with a GPL licens. See https://www.raptor-editor.com for details

Shiny (Administration theme) - The admin theme used in Commerce Kickstart v2.

Druplippy - This appears to be a very serious port of MS Clippy to Drupal.

Slides - Allows the easy creation of slides to create HTML presentations for display using reveal.js.

views_timelinr - Integrate jQuery Timelinr-Plugin as a Views Plugin.

Menu Listchildren - Allows the creation of parent menu items which simply point to a page listing the child items.

Responsify - Allows you to set up devices which have FROM and TO pixel breakpoints. You can use these devices in drupal_add_js calls to load in different JavaScript depending on whether the user is in the device bounds you specified.

Wayne EakerSeptember 21, 2012

Analtyics Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community E-Commerce Feeds module FormAPI Maps Menus Solr Symfony Theming Views module Workbench module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: July 6, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:17:35 +0000

The Week in Drupal: July 6, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 29 - July 6, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Munich Session Schedule Announced!

DrupalCon São Paolo Updates and Call for Session Proposals

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Where to find updates on D8 Development Progress

Drupal core announcements: New Routing system in progress; needs feedback

Great Posts and Tutorials

RedHen CRM: Keeping all your eggs in one Drupal basket: Part 1, Part 2

Engagement Scoring - A Case for Native Drupal CRM

The Hybrid Designer

Page Cache vs. Landing Page Performance

Creating Page Layouts with Omega Theme

A Simple Async JavaScript Loader

De-Drupalizing The Login Form

Jeff Hanbury and the LiveThemer Project - Modules Unraveled Podcast

nginx / MariaDB / PHP / Aegir on Mac OS X with optional Drush 5 (works on Mountain Lion!)

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Express Checkout - The Express Checkout button redirects to the Checkout page directly, without going to the Cart first, It also removes the Review page and adds the Payment checkout pane to the Checkout page, so the whole checkout process is done on one page.

MergeDocx - This module allows user to create Microsoft Word ( in .docx format file) by creating a Microsoft Word template file with Mail merge fields serve as data placeholders and Drupal node as data source.

Biblio Autocomplete - This module provides functionality for auto-completion of fields in the Biblio node type using third party services (currently two plugin modules are included: IPNI and ZooBank).

Commerce Invoices - Commerce Invoices allows you to enter an Invoice number, Company name and Amount and it will generate an Invoice that the client can pay on your site using any payment method supported by Drupal commerce.

Admin Menu Flusher - Extends the admin menu so that you can allow people to flush the cache, without giving them permission to administer the entire site.

HeadBar - A HelloBar clone

request_queue - Uses the queue system to fire off HTTP requests asynchronously. The intention is to avoid delays in loading pages due to waiting on HTTP requests.

Privatemsg Taxonomy - Allows to send message to all members with taxonomy term.

Feeds PHP Fetcher - Allows power users and developers to write custom PHP code that will be used to fetch data from remote sources.

Comments as Block - Removes the display of comments from nodes and exposes as a block.

Wayne EakerJuly 6, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Munich DrupalCon São Paulo Drush Feeds module High Performance Javascript nginx PrivateMsg RedHen CRM Theming

The Week in Drupal: June 15, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:37:45 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 15, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 8 - 15, 2012.

Drupal News

WSCCI Web Services Format Sprint Report

Drupal Association News: Drupal.org D7 Upgrade working sprint (#2)

Great Posts and Tutorials

Responsive Images: Video Tutorials

Sneak preview of the new Drupal Commerce Kickstart 2.0

How to Create New Features in Views 3

Programmatically Creating Entities

Module Monday: Anonymous Posting

Git Best Practices: Workflow Guidelines

Interesting New Modules

Views responsive data tables - This module provides a new display style to views, wich extends the default table style to be responsive.

Search synonyms - This is a very small utility module which adds taxonomy synonyms to the search index.

Display Suite Custom Node Layouts - Extends the ‘View mode per node’ functionality provided by the Display Suite Module

Drush Usersets - Provides Drush commands for adding, updating, and deleting users from a CSV or JSON file.

NetBeans Integration - Hook templates for NetBeans.

Commerce CiviCRM - Add CiviCRM contribution records for Commerce purchases.

Do Not Disturb - This module, when enabled, will deny access to anyone who tries to access the site without first logging in (by going to /user).

Views JSON Backend - Parse external JSON web services to be used by Views.

ASCII Art - Allows for the easy insertion of ASCII Art code signing.

Vegas - Vegas is a jQuery plugin to add beautiful fullscreen backgrounds to your webpages, you even can create amazing slideshow

Smart App Banners - Apple’s mobile operating system iOS 6.0 offers Smart App Banners, which are Safari mobile notifications informing users when a site offer a native app

Select and Print for Drupal - Mimics the “select and print” WordPress module.

Wayne EakerJune 15, 2012

CiviCRM Display Suite Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drush Entity API Responsive Design Search Theming Views module WSSCI

The Week in Drupal: May 25, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:51:20 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 25, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 18 - 25, 2012.

Drupal News

Earl Miles: Views in Core for D8

New Drupal 7 core co-maintainer: David Rothstein

Drupal Association Launches New Supporting Partner Program

Drupal core announcements: Selecting an Http Client

Designing Drupal's Mobile Navigation and Beyond

merlinofchaos to keynote Drupaldelphia (Drupalcamp Philadelphia) June 22nd

Great Posts and Tutorials

Adding CSS Classes to Blocks in Drupal

Non-Blocking Loading Of 3rd Party Scripts In Drupal

The Drupal Mobile Process

Prototyping Responsive Websites - Part 1

How to use $form['#attached'] with a JavaScript setting in Drupal 7 Form API

Calling Views from a Custom Module

Interesting New Modules

TwitBot - This looks pretty awesome. It allows drupal to react to mentions on Twitter, using the Rules module.

Views Destination - Add a field handler to views so that you can set destination of any link after submit.

IMCE plupload - Uses the 'plupload integration' module to integrate plupload into the IMCE file browser.

Context Mobile Detect - Helps with detecting mobile devices.

Browser Tag - Integrates with Browscap to add a class to the body element of the page to denote which browser the page is being rendered in.

Popcorn.js - Popcorn.js is an event system for HTML5 media developers developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Think jQuery for video.

Usable Fields - A form widget for select (multiple) lists with 50+ options. No code yet, but excited to see this. OG with 15,000 groups can bring the node form to crawl.

Commerce Contributions - Provides a way where users can contribute/invest/support a specific Project/Organization/Cause with Drupal Commerce.

Commerce External Links - Displays a custom message to customers leaving the site with items in their shopping cart/basket.

CK Content Injector - Enables a developer to build there own custom content injector using the CK Editor.

Claim Node Author - Allows a privileged user to claim to be the author of a particular node.

Workbench Moderation Types - Allows different workbench moderation states and transitions per node type.

Premium Responsive - A nice looking responsive theme.

Wayne EakerMay 25, 2012

Context module Drupal Drupal Commerce Drupal Community FieldAPI FormAPI Javascript Mobile Responsive Design Theming Twitter Views module Workbench module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: May 11, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:14:57 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 11, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 4 - 11, 2012.

Great Posts and Tutorials

Four Kitchens: Migrating old HTML files into Drupal

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce extra panes

Making Media Gallery work with Media 2.x

There is a module for that!: Mediatheque, a Drupal media organizer

A Look at Georgia.gov and “Why Big Sites Run Drupal”

Getting Meta Tags on Views in Drupal 7

Károly Négyesi: Progress on Entity Field Query Views Backend module

Drupal 6 Override views pager theme function

NodeOne: Features Pipexplosion - a great addition

Best Practices for Reporting Bugs

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Tickets - Allows the site admin to create a ticket purchase system.

User Access Control - Allows users to grant other users access to update their content.

User defined permissions - quickly define new permissions through the UI.

OPAC - Allows libraries to make Drupal their public catalogue.

Simplenews SMS - Adds SMS Functionality to Simplenews using Twilio.

WFCC - Copy Webform components from one form to another.

OG Extras - Ceated because the default views and blocks that come with Organic Groups only work in Panels. It restores some of the functionality of the D6 version of Organic Groups.

AMQP - Provides methods for publishing and consuming messages from an AMQP message queue (https://amqp.org/) compatible server, such as RabbitMQ (https://rabbitmq.org).

Wayne EakerMay 11, 2012

Drupal Drupal Commerce Features module Media module Migration Organic Groups module Search Engine Optimization VoIP Webform module

The Week in Drupal: May 4, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:36:34 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 4, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: April 27 - May 4, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.14 and Drupal 6.26 released - A security release for D7, bugfixes only for D6. The security issues are described here: SA-CORE-2012-002.

Dries Buytaert: Announcing Spark: authoring improvements for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8

Update on DrupalCon São Paulo 2012

Drupal core announcements: Save the Date: Midwest Drupal Developer Summit in Madison, WI, July 26-27, 2012

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Views now supports queries of Google Analytics report data

How to bootstrap Drupal in custom scripts

Selenium: testing Javascript with Simpletest on Drupal 7

Mobile Drupal optimization results

Achievements 7.x-1.5 released

Liberate your Drupal data for a service-oriented architecture (using Redis, Node.js, and MongoDB)

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Card on File

Interesting New Modules

Menu Select - For responsive design websites, allows menus to be rendered as select boxes.

Save Form State - Auto save forms using the jQuery Sisyphus plugin, which is a lightweight jQuery plugin.

VoIP Poll - Facilitates the creation of polls that are accessible via web, phone and SMS.

Registration Commerce 2 - Integration between Entity Registrations and Drupal Commerce enabling paid registrations.

Article Templater - Allows content authors to create content templates and reuse them within any content type you have on your Drupal site.

Obnoxious Overlay - Best module description ever. Go read it.

addressfield_tokens - Extends the addressfield module by adding full token support. Lets you use pieces of the address separately.

Views Sexy Throbber - A modal HUD-style loading graphic for Views. It looks like this screenshot. (SFW)

Commerce Actions - A bunch of actions to use with Rules module on your Drupal Commerce store.

Views Sprites - A sprite generator for Views. What?!

Yelp Reviews Plus - Provides a block which displays Yelp reviews about a specific business with the option of displaying review excerpts.

Conditional Variables - Allows for changing Drupal variables depending on configurable conditions. It currently utilizes Rules, but may support additional methods down the road, such as Context.

Role Delay - enables the configuration of one or more user roles that all new users are automatically granted after a specified period of time from registration.

Password Flow - In core, when a user clicks on the password reset link they end up on a page with a login button, which is potentially confusing. Password flow allows you to remove this additional step and send the user directly to their user edit page to reset their password.

Wayne EakerMay 4, 2012

Analtyics Context module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon São Paulo E-Commerce Menus Mobile Node.js Responsive Design Testing UX Views module VoIP