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• Drupal 8/9 – Adding ID Attributes in TWIG

  9/14/2021

  Named anchors are helpful when you need to navigate users to sections within a page. It's a rather common request and should be easy to implement. However, page sections might be built with Paragraphs, Layout Builder components, blocks or something else. 

• Useful CSS - Simple Fixes for Everyday Styling Challenges

  8/12/2021

  Every developer should have a few CSS tricks up their sleeve.

• Deciding to Accept Composer

  8/1/2019

  When it comes to Composer adoption, I admit, I’ve been procrastinating. And by procrastinating, I mean completely ignoring my composer.json file and all that it stands for. Until now. 

• Drupal 8 - Selective Deletion from Watchdog Table

  5/15/2019

  For this site, the best way to tackle a rapidly-growing WATCHDOG table was with SQL.

• Installing MongoDB on Red Hat Linux 7

  11/8/2018

  Technology is nothing if not fluid and perpetually redefining the rules.

• Drupal 8 - Entity Reference View to Display User Profile Values

  3/24/2018

  There may be many ways to accomplish this level of security, but one way is through an Entity Reference view...

• Running D7 and D8 on the Same PHP Version

  2/7/2018

  A PHP upgrade might be required/desired for various reasons, including functionality, performance, and security. But what happens to Drupal when PHP is upgraded?

• D8 Free Themes: A Bumpy Ride?

  12/23/2017

  Playing with free themes hasn't been an entirely smooth process.

• Old-fashioned, Slice-n-Stack Background Images

  9/14/2017

  Before CSS3 we did all sorts of image trickery to accomplish things we couldn't otherwise accomplish. But are any of these old-fashioned techniques still relevant?

• Drupal 8 - Twig Templates for Bootstrap Forms

  8/2/2017

  Drupal 8 -- Theming -- Twig Templates

• Wrapping Your Head Around Entity-Reference Views

  7/12/2017

  While cross-training a colleague on Drupal Views, I had to reacquaint myself with the usage of Entity References and Relationships.

• Drupal 7 - Update Problems - Media/File Entity

  4/29/2017

  A quick Google search shows you that the Media and File Entity modules have been causing trouble for many years for those attempting to upgrade one or the other.

• SQL - Unusual DateTime Functions in Computed Columns

  3/11/2017

  Working with date/time values stored as strings creates unique challenges.

• Better Searching in Drupal 7 (and the roadblocks along the way)

  12/9/2016

  For my small-medium website (less than 5000 content nodes), this search configuration works great.

• Drupal 7 - Implementing RESTFul Web Services

  11/17/2016

  REST -- JSON -- Drupal 7

• Drupal 7 - When View Rows Don't Display for Anonymous Users

  10/18/2016

  I created a view that looked great - from my perspective, as an Administrator with full access to my Drupal site.

• Drupal 7 - Theming phone numbers with Google Analytics code

  5/20/2016

  There may be multiple ways to tackle this problem, but here are the basic requirements I had to meet and how I achieved those requirements through Drupal's theming layer.

• Creating Your "Modules Portfolio"

  3/18/2016

  After years of building Drupal sites and leveraging dozens of contributed modules, how do you keep track of what you've used and why?

• Drupal 7 - Elysia Cron & the Feeds Module

  12/22/2015

  This article covers how I schedule feeds to import and update Drupal content on a regular basis.

• Drupal 7 - Custom Breadcrumbs with PHP

  10/23/2015

  This article covers a scenario where the Custom Breadcrumbs module needed a little help from PHP in order to display as desired on a particular content type.