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Views Exposed Filters Multiple Field Search

Shea McKinney Posted by Shea Ross McKinney on Monday, February 17, 2014 - 9:07am

Views offers the ability to expose filters to the end user so they may filter and sort through a views listing to find what they want in a large list of content. If you have used exposed filters before you will be familiar with exposing a filter on a specific field, such as the...

Announcing Stanford Drupal Camp 2014!

Megan Erin Miller Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 11:25am

We are excited to announce that registration and session proposals are now open for Stanford Drupal Camp 2014!





Registration is now open for the Fifth Annual Stanford Drupal Camp. All sessions will be held April 18th - 19th, 2014 at the Stanford...

Redirecting Links From an Old Page to a New Page

Caryl Westerberg Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Monday, February 10, 2014 - 8:04am

Websites often link to pages on other websites – this is a great way to refer to relevant information from your site. However, problems arise when a page that people are linking to moves to a new URL in your site or elsewhere. The link that once worked is now broken....

Using Templates in a Custom Drupal Module

Photo of John Bickar Posted by John Bickar on Monday, January 27, 2014 - 9:06am

In Drupal development land, the theme is what controls the final HTML, CSS, and Javascript that get delivered to the browser.


Sometimes, however, in developing a custom module, you want to provide a suggestion for an HTML framework, and not rely on the...

Overriding Open Framework Styles: Customizing your Main Menu

Megan Erin Miller Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Monday, January 20, 2014 - 9:00am

In this series of posts, I'm going to share some tricks to quickly override some of Open Framework's default styling, such as the main menu, text, and link styles. For anyone who wants a quick way to get to a custom design on...

How to restrict content access

Cynthia Mijares Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 8:06am

Need to restrict access to some content on your site? With the Content Access module, you can control viewing, editing, deleting permissions on your site by specific content types. Here's how to set it up.


Content access control by content type


  1. Log in to your...

Creating a sitemap for auditing your site

Caryl Westerberg Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 9:18am

Suppose you're getting ready to migrate your website from Drupal 6 to 7, or maybe you just inherited a site. You'll want do an audit to learn what content is on the site and how it is structured.  When it comes time for a site audit, it’s good to start with a sitemap. ...

Drupal Sitebuilder, Citizen-Engineer

a face for radio Posted by Zach Chandler on Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 1:15pm

Either we shape the the technologies that we use, or they will shape us.  Stanford’s commitment to the Drupal CMS enables more of us to think like engineers, embrace the Maker ethos, and craft our own tools.


“The most profound technologies are those that disappear...

Fix broken content links with the Pathologic Module

Caryl Westerberg Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 10:24am

Have you ever needed to change the URL for your website? Say, move your website from one domain to another, from a subdirectory to the root of a web host, or even make a copy? Chances are, you’ll find broken links and missing images in the text of your content....

Making a copy of a website with the Backup and Migrate Module

Caryl Westerberg Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 2:48pm

Have you ever wanted to try something new on your website, but you were afraid it might go wrong and leave you with a broken site?  Or maybe you want a second website that is is a close match to an existing one? Creating a copy of your live (or "production") site gives you the...

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