Tips and Tricks

Getting started on Sites: Creating a Personal Webpage

Rebecca Hong — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 18:30:35 +0000

I am sure some of you have noticed that there is a Stanford Light sample image of Jane Smith's personal website and were wondering how to recreate the same page for yourself.

In this blog post, I'll show you how you can put together an About page layout similar to the Jane Smith's personal website preview image seen on the Appearance page.

How to tell Google about your Stanford Sites website

Alyssa Hislop — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:28:39 +0000

You've put time into creating your Stanford Sites website, so you'll probably want Google (and other search engines) to know about it. One of the ways to get this done is by submitting your website sitemap. This blog post will walk you through how to claim ownership of your Stanford Sites website, then submit the website to Google for indexing.

Altering Custom Elements in Forms

Caryl J Westerberg — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:46:13 +0000

Drupal provides a powerful framework for creating custom elements for use in forms. One example of a custom element is the Link field. Suppose you want to change the default label on a Link field to read "Link text." How do you alter it?

Grep Invert Match

John Bickar — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 22:11:22 +0000

Today I learned about the -v flag for grep. The -v, or --invert-match, flag, returns all lines that do not match your regular expression.

Adding Styles to Stanford WYSIWYG

Cynthia Mijares — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 03:04:29 +0000

The Stanford WYSIWYG gives the content editor multiple style options to modify the look of their site's content. Suppose you want the ability to float an image right or left in the content region but it's not in the list of Styles. You can create a CSS Injector rule to target that specific content then make this style available to the WYSIWYG Styles drop-down list. To tackle this example, let's go step-by-step to add the ability to float images right or left in the content region within the WYSIWYG.

Stanford Events Series module

Anna Watt — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:45:46 +0000

Do you have a collection of ongoing related events? Try the Event Series module to collect events onto a single page and display upcoming and past events.

Stanford Event Series joined Stanford Sites during the Summer 2016 Updates. Previously it was only available to our Jumpstart clients, but high demand for this functionality on Stanford Sites, combined with our commitment to contributing back to the greater community brought this module to sites created on Stanford Sites.

Creating a news item for your website

Grace Kiburi — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:48:46 +0000

Want to create a news item for your Stanford Sites? Stanford News feature provides an out of the box solution for displaying news content on your website. This feature contains a content type, fields, a news page layout, and taxonomy. This module is a great replacement for the default Article content type.

Enable Stanford News module for your site

Login to your Stanford Sites website
From the Admin toolbar, click Modules
Filter list by stanford_news

Making menu links visible for all users

Grace Kiburi — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:55:34 +0000

You have created a page that is restricted to Stanford only users logged in with their SUNet ID and placed that page in the menu. After logging out of your site, you noticed that the link is gone! Would you like to make your menu links visible to all users even though the content is restricted? Always Visible module can help you do that!

Add a photo gallery to your site

Alyssa Hislop — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 20:06:30 +0000

Want to display a group of photos on your site? Stanford Sites now offers a solution for creating your own galleries.

Choosing NoBots instead of Stanford MetaTag NoBots

Alyssa Hislop — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:00:00 +0000

Are you creating a new site on Stanford Sites, but don't want Search Engines to see it? The NoBots module is here to replace Stanford MetaTag NoBots.

NoBots recently joined the growing list of modules available to Stanford Sites during the Summer 2016 Updates. It replaces the soon-to-be-deprecated Stanford Metatag NoBots module, which was featured as a Module of the Day here on the SWS Blog in 2014.

Git: Find the First Tag Containing a Specified Keyword

John Bickar — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:00:00 +0000

Today's post is a quick tutorial how to use "git grep" and "git tag" to find the earliest tag that contains a particular line of code.

TL;DR: use:

git grep <regexp> $(git rev-list --all)

and

git tag --contains=<commit hash>

DrupalCon 2016: Caryl’s Highlights

Caryl J Westerberg — Tue, 31 May 2016 23:54:52 +0000

DrupalCon (Drupal Conference) 2016 marked the 3rd DrupalCon that I attended. With Drupal 8 released, I felt it was time to go to the conference and kick the tires.

Held in historic New Orleans, I not only learned more about Drupal 8, but I learned about the beignets, cemeteries, and handgrenades. But that’s for another story.

Hiding the WebAuth Login Block

Cynthia Mijares — Thu, 12 May 2016 16:06:31 +0000

Want to hide or move the WebAuth login block on your website? On Stanford Sites the login block is in the left sidebar by default giving the administrator easy access to log in and make changes to their website. As an administrator you have the option to move this block to a different region or completely hide it. Let's talk about both options and their ramifications.

If you have multiple people collaborating on your site, you may choose to keep the WebAuth Authentication block visible somewhere on the page.

Drupal 8 REST Requests

John Bickar — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:25:12 +0000

In November, 2015, the Stanford Web Services team got to dive into Drupal 8 during a weeklong sprint. I was excited to look at the RESTful web services that Drupal 8 gives out-of-the-box; what follows is my documentation of the various types of requests supported, required headers, responses, and response codes.

This is not intended to be an exhaustive documentation of RESTful web services in Drupal 8. However, I have pulled information from various posts around the Web, and my own experimentation, into this post.

Update status for your custom features

Shea Ross McKinney — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:14:57 +0000

Not all modules belong on Drupal.org