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Module of the Day: Stanford MetaTag NoBots - Hide your site from search engines!
Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Monday, October 13, 2014 - 9:00am When we launch a site at Stanford Web Services, we open the doors and roll out the red carpet for the search engines to index the site. However, before launch we like to keep the content under wraps and ask the search engines not to index the site. To do this, we use a module...
Styling on Sites: Header Image Fun
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Monday, September 29, 2014 - 8:00am Recently a couple of clients wanted to add a background banner image to their site. This is a great option for a site that is more text heavy. With the administrator role, you can use CSS injector to make your site look unique.
The instructions listed here refer to...
Getting Started on Sites: Remove Users Account Privileges
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 8:47am Let's say your co-worker left Stanford or the grad student working on your website is no longer here. I'll walk you through the steps to either remove their editing privileges or cancel their account.
After logging in the your website, navigate to the People...
Troubleshooting the Field Group 7.x-1.4 Update
Posted by John Bickar on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 7:11am In July, 2014, the Field Group module was updated from 7.x-1.1 to 7.x-1.4 on Stanford Sites. This update has the potential to cause issues with CSS, as certain types of markup were removed from the HTML output of the page.
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Using Display Suite to provide field-level permissions
Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Monday, July 28, 2014 - 8:00am Have you ever wanted to show only selected information on a content type to anonymous users and more information to authenticated users? It turns out that you can use Display Suite to provide field-level permissions for an entity.
In this post we'll show you an example...
Cherry Picking - Small Git lesson
Posted by Shea Ross McKinney on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - 9:56am Small commits allow for big wins.
Something that I have been using a lot lately is GIT's cherry-pick command. I find the command very useful, and it saves me bunches of time. Here is a quick lesson on what it does and an example use case.
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Module of the Day: Path Redirect Import
Posted by John Bickar on Monday, July 14, 2014 - 6:02am Today we're going take a look at the Path Redirect Import module, which lets you import redirects in bulk into your Drupal site.
All of the modules described in this post are available on...
Getting Started on Sites: How to Add a Google Map to your Website - Updated
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Monday, July 7, 2014 - 1:54pm Google is always improving! So, here's an update to my last post on how to add a Google map to your website.
Many websites have a "Contact" or "Directions...
Help! I lost everything! What do I do? Introducing the Internet Archive
Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Monday, June 30, 2014 - 2:45pm Sometimes things happen that are beyond your realm of control. A page in your website or maybe your whole site goes missing. Then, to add insult to injury, the backups can’t restore the site. What can you do to recover?
Introducing Internet Archive
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