Create a Test Site. Production site: The live website where all your web visitors go.Test site: A copy of your live site, at a different URL, where you can make experimental changes without affecting your live site Drupal and its modules are in pretty constant development. So things are changing pretty fast and sometimes not completely documented. In practice, that means making a change or adding/removing a module on your prod site can have rather surprising results - surprises you'd rather your visitors didn't have to live with. That's why I recommend making all changes to a test site, and if they work out, promote the changes to your prod site. Here's how I built a completely parallel site on my hosted, shared server account. First I need to mention some things about my site, so the rest of this article makes sense: My site is called bewise.comit's hosted on a shared serverI have shell access to my hosted files.
So how to actually do all this? Step 0 - work with your host provider I use the commands. Install PHP 5 Apache MySQL on Windows : WampServer. Documentation. Introduction to Drupal for Builders - How Drupal Works | PlanningDrupalSites. Open Atrium. Open Atrium is an intranet in a box that has group spaces to allow different teams to have their own conversations and collaboration. Open Atrium 2.x for Drupal 7 A new architecture for Drupal 7 that is built upon Panopoly and intended as an extensible collaboration framework.
Adds the ability to have private "sections" within a collaboration space with granular access control. Drag/drop layout control with dozens of widgets that can be placed on dashboards and landing pages. Comes with Discussions, Events, Issue tracking, and Document Wiki out of the box, along with the dashboards to manage it all. Please use the Issue Queue to post bug reports and patches for OA2 only (not OA1). NOTE: Demos The following webinar videos for Open Atrium 2 are available: Open Atrium 2.x Projects These modules are part of the official Open Atrium project and are actively maintained and approved. Other Modules that work with Open Atrium 2.x System Requirements Open Atrium 1.x for Drupal 6. Drupal SEO Company | Volacci® Search Engine Optimization.
Design + Drupal | Sprocket. Planet Drupal. In this article we are going to look at implementing the Facebook Open Graph (OG) tags on a Drupal site. It involves a bit of coding but nothing too major so bear with me. All the code we are going to write goes into the theme's template.php file so no need to to create a module for it. And if your theme does not yet have this file, go ahead and create it. Why use Open Graph tags? I'm sure by now you know that people share pages on Facebook and you want your site to be shared as much as possible. You also know that a little teaser information is made available on Facebook when you share these pages (title, image, short description).
But have you ever noticed that with some sites, when you share pages on Facebook, or like/recommend them, some random, unintented image gets used in this teaser. What are the Open Graph meta tags? These are simple <meta> tags that you put in the head of your site to specify which elements should be used by Facebook for various purposes. Simple. Conclusion. Dries Buytaert | Personal website of Dries Buytaert. Handbooks. Drupal - Content Management System.