Drupal

My musings on Drupal, primarily Drupal 8.

Patrick Michael
June 2019

Drupal ^8 || ^9 - Set up Development Environment

Submitted by Patrick Michael on Tue, 07/26/2022 - 13:01

The Topic: As we are developing a Drupal site, we need to be able to de-bug. This article steps through setting up a Drupal Development environment.

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Drupal

Tags

Drupal 9

Site Building
Drupal ^8.8 || ^9 Upgrade - Resolving Composer 1 - 2 Issues | Tutorial

Submitted by Patrick Michael on Tue, 12/14/2021 - 14:49

The Topic: Composer 2 is installed globally on the server. We have Drupal 8 sites running on the server that have plugins and Drupal-composer plugins compatible with Composer 1. We need to resolve these Composer issues in order for Composer commands to be run. Furthermore, we also need to Upgrade the Drupal 8 sites to Drupal 9.

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Drupal

Marketing

Tags

Drupal 8

Drupal 9

Composer

Drupal upgrade
Drupal ^8.8 || ^9 - Upgrade from 8.9.19 to 9.2.6 | Tutorial

Submitted by Patrick Michael on Wed, 10/06/2021 - 08:23

The Topic: Upgrading Drupal 8.9.19 to 9.2.6. A record of my process.

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Drupal

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Drupal 8

Drupal 9

Site Maintenance
Drupal ^8.8 || ^9 - Theming - Add contextual class to Views list page

Submitted by Patrick Michael on Sat, 09/04/2021 - 11:44

The Problem: The ability to style subtle differences to list pages that are generated out of a single view.

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Drupal

Tags

Drupal 8

Drupal 9

Drupal Theming
Drupal ^8.8 || ^9 - Check For Duplicate Content Based On Node Fields

Submitted by Patrick Michael on Mon, 08/30/2021 - 15:52

The Problem: Content creators entering the same content more than once.

Drupal allows for duplicate titles. Thus, the content creators are often unaware of the duplicate entries.

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Drupal

Tags

Drupal 9

Site Building
Drupal ^8.8 || ^9: Paragraphs - A Tutorial

Submitted by Patrick Michael on Fri, 01/22/2021 - 15:36

Are you struggling to create complex layouts in Drupal? There is a misconception that Drupal is not flexible on the front end. This is not true. This tutorial shows the use of Paragraphs module to build complex layouts.

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Drupal

Tags

Drupal 8

Drupal 9

Drupal Paragraphs
Drupal 8: Solution for Mobile Detect Cache Context

Submitted by Patrick Michael on Tue, 03/17/2020 - 16:32

This article suggests a solution for the missing Cache Context support in the Drupal 8 version of Mobile Detect.

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Drupal

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Drupal 8

Cache Context

Mobile Detect

Twig
Drupal 8: Search Facets Setup

Submitted by Patrick Michael on Wed, 02/26/2020 - 10:04

Faceted search allows users to narrow their search options and find what they are looking for without guesswork and or too much filtering and browsing.

In this article I walk through my process of setting up search facets on Drupal 8.
Enjoy.

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Drupal

Tags

Drupal 8

Search Facets
Drupal 8: Apache Solr Search Setup

Submitted by Patrick Michael on Sat, 09/07/2019 - 12:38

In this article I walk through my process of setting up Apache Solar on Drupal 8. This article in particular covers the; I found; rather cryptic process of configuring the server. Enjoy.

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Drupal

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Drupal 8

Apache Solr
Setting Drupal 8 BASE_URL Solution

Submitted by Patrick Michael on Tue, 06/25/2019 - 12:19

For security reasons the $base_url used in Drupal 7 has been removed in Drupal 8. $base_url was used to set the absolute URL for the installation which is then used to generate links. One such link is the one-time login link generated by the Drush command:

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Drupal

Tags

Drupal 8

Drupal Commerce