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Organize all your interests naturally. Learn Drupal With Over 590 Drupal Vidoes and Training | Build a Module.com. Association Memberships. What is Drupal Association membership? The Drupal Association's mission is to foster and support the Drupal community by maintaining Drupal.org infrastructure, providing DrupalCon scholarships and Community Cultivation Grants, hosting DrupalCons and many other community initiatives. Membership fees fund these programs and provide you and your company an easy and low cost way to help us support and grow Drupal. You can join as an Individual Member or Organization Member Join Now! Membership is very affordable and to make life easy, you can select auto-renew so your membership automatically renews each year. Program Benefits Individual Member Directory Listing and Organization Member Directory Members are listed in our public directories Discounts Members receive discounts from Drupal Association partners like ActiveState, O'Reilly, and Acquia.

Recognition Members are listed in the Drupal Association Annual Report, given out at major Drupal events and online Membership Badge Newsletter. Develop for Drupal. Contextual Administration. Contextual Administration is an administration tool based on CTools Page Manager module. It allows for the deployment of custom administrative pages through a typical database driven mechanism or can take advantage of the typical page_manager exports through custom modules + exports or features module. Visit our Google+ Page: For more videos and regular updates: Contextual Administration Video Documentation My specific use case in creating context_admin to begin with was to give site administrators who don't have the programming know-how the ability to add traditionally developer style administration links to their site in an ad-hoc fashion. By default Contextual Administration comes with the ability to add nodes of any type, edit/add/list taxonomy terms, edit vocabularies, and add users.

This module depends on page_manager which is part of the ctools module. Documentation for Panels 6.x-3.x. Backing up a site. General backup best practices Always back up the entire site before updating or upgrading. (It is also a good idea before migrating, copying, moving, or replacing.)Date your backups. Save each one into a directory or file with a title that includes the date of the backup. You do not want to be guessing which backup is the most recent one when you are trying to recover your failed site. Panic is not conducive to a good recovery process.Save a copy of each backup in a different location than your webserver. Remember, if data doesn't exist in three places, it doesn't exist at all. Specific backup strategy Backing up a Drupal site involves backing up both the site's database and its files. Backing up the database Backing up and restoring a MySQL database using the command line is covered in the MySQL Reference Manual, in the section on Backup and Recovery.

Backups can also be performed with a graphical utility such as PHPmyAdmin. Another alternative solution is to use a module. Security advisories. SA-CORE-2012-001 - Drupal core multiple vulnerabilities.