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Parent Feed Title in FeedAPI Item Node

Posted by Tom On October - 29 - 2009

We recently began testing the installation profile for Drupal called OpenPublish. The good folks at Phase 2 Technology have opened this installation profile (distribution) up for all to use with some key features for the semantic web. This post is not to go over or compares features with other similar distributions. Instead this is more about how to get the parent feed title into the template for a node created from a feed-item with the feedapi module.

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Drupal 6 Custom Maintenance Pages

Posted by Tom On February - 4 - 2009

workinDo you follow the instructions for upgrading Drupal? If you do, you put your site into maintenance mode as part of the process. (I smile writing this because I haven’t always followed those instructions and I’m betting you haven’t always either.) It is the right thing to do though.

But that is only one reason your users might see the maintenance page. If your host has database problems, you could be showing your customers the default Drupal maintenance or offline page. Probably not the image you were looking for. This article will walk you through the process of creating custom maintenance/offline pages for your Drupal sites that will keep a profession look and feel, respecting your site design and style.

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Don’t Dump Drupal – It is Powerful

Posted by Tom On January - 27 - 2009

Fear of the Dark

I recently came across this blog post talking about someone’s decision to “dump” Drupal as a platform for a site idea they had. As I read the short post, I quickly found that I was shouting “don’t dump Drupal” in the back of my mind.

The author describes three reasons why Drupal didn’t work out for their use.

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