John Bickar is a Senior Web Developer and DevOps Lead for Stanford Web Services. He is one of the primary developers working on the Stanford Sites hosting platform. His interests (besides Drupal) include web accessibility, Behat, automation, and unordered lists.
Today we're highlighting a very simple but useful module, Module Filter. This module makes the module overview page at admin/modules much more user friendly by grouping modules into categories, and mimicking the "Find on this page" (e.g., Ctrl-F) functionality of web browsers.
Getting accurate and timely help starts with crafting a good help request. Here are a few tips that you can use.
An update to the new modules for July, 2013: Module updates to Stanford Sites were not fully completed during the maintenance windows of the week of August 5th. Sites on people.stanford.edu were updated during regular maintenance windows in the week of August 5th. Department and group sites on Stanford Sites will receive the following updated modules on August 27th and 28th.
What's better, fast or slow? That's right. Fast. There are a couple of ways you can tune the performance of your Drupal site to decrease page load times. Below are two simple things you can do today.
Update, August 5: Module updates to Stanford Sites were not fully completed during the maintenance windows of the week of July 29th. Instead, sites on people.stanford.edu will continue to be updated during regular maintenance windows in the week of August 5th. Department and group sites on Stanford Sites will receive the updates at a later date in August.
During the week of July 29th, 2013, IT Services will be adding the following modules to all sites on Stanford Sites:
One of the common requests that we receive about the list of included modules in Stanford Sites is if we can add the Panels module. I would like to outline our rationale for not including Panels in Stanford Sites, and describe the alternative approaches and methods you can use to create unique, custom layouts on your website.
On Tuesday, May 28th, and Thursday, May 30th, 2013, IT Services will perform quarterly software updates on Stanford Sites.
Tuesday, May 28th, 5-8PM: updates performed on personal websites hosted on people.stanford.edu.
Thursday, May 30th, 4-6AM: updates performed on group and department websites hosted on sites.stanford.edu.
Updates will include:
Have you ever looked at a page layout and thought, "Hm, that sure is one long list of fields. It would be nice to be able to place some of that information in a sidebar (or in the footer, etc.)"
In this example, we want to move some of the "Contact Information" fields of an Event node into the first sidebar.
You can do exactly that with the Display Suite Extras module, which is available on Stanford Sites. Here's how.
On Tuesday, May 7th, 2013, IT Services will perform quarterly software updates on Stanford Sites. Updates will include:
On Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013, IT Services performed quarterly software updates on Stanford Sites. Updates included:
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