Technology
4 Jan 2012
What happened in the world of Content Management Systems (CMS) last year?
Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla! continued their reign as the most popular Open Source CMS for the third year running, according to the 2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Report by Ric Shreves of the digital agency water&...
25 Oct 2011
Today we're going to explore Gravity Forms' form submission hook.
Gravity Forms is a WordPress forms plugin. It lets you visually create public-facing input forms, similar to Wufoo. You're able to build things like website surveys, event registrations, and (multi-step) payment processing forms.
The...
9 Sep 2011
Most Drupal developers are familiar with the Nodequeue module.
It gives developers the ability to set up groups of nodes, called "queues". Clients can add nodes to these groups, and use the drag-n-drop interface to order the nodes as desired. It gives clients a lot more control over which...
29 Jan 2011
Having attended the last few U.S.-based DrupalCons, the upcoming Chicago event is easily the most exciting. Why is that? In a word, Drupal 7. Okay, maybe that's two words. Architecturally, it's a huge shift involving a new database layer, a new rendering layer, better form handling...the list goes...
1 Nov 2010
If you're using Acquia Search or a self-hosted ApacheSolr search instance, you've already noticed that the default listing leaves a lot to be desired. Fortunately, it's not extremely difficult to make these results look exactly the way you want.
For starters, I'm assuming that Views 3 is already...
4 Oct 2010
One of Drupal's strengths is in the ability of the Taxonomy module to handle hierachical categories. It makes lists like this easy:
Fruit
Apples
Bananas
Oranges
Vegetables
Celery
Lettuce
Broccoli
This enables...
15 Jul 2010
Several battles have been brewing from within the WordPress community.
It's WordPress, not Wordpress dangit!
A couple weeks ago, a snippet of code got sneaked into WordPress 3.0. The function, capital_P_dangit, is a filter that replaces "Wordpress" with "WordPress" throughout...
25 Mar 2010
One thing becomes clear if you use Drupal for a while... the built-in search is poor. This isn't unexpected, as search is a a hard problem to solve. And the best way to get around hard problems is to find someone who has done it well and use their work.
There are a number of products out there,...
16 Mar 2010
Creating a plugin in WordPress is easier than you might think. There are currently over 8,500 plugins in the wordpress.org repository (not including paid plugins), so that should say something.
For starters, WordPress has a fairly extensive plugin API system, granting you the ability to hook into...
15 Mar 2010
This quick tutorial will demonstrate how you can set up your Drupal site to allow registered users to create custom themes which they can apply to other content items (nodes).
Feature requirements
Allow users to customize the appearance (theme) of an individual node which they created....
