Drupal

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Improve visitor retention and speed up your website with Drupal page caching

Chris O'Brien December 30, 2015 0 Comments
Why speed matters Making your business’ website as fast as possible has a whole host of benefits, from improving your search engine position to reducing your visitor bounce rate (the number of people who leave your website after viewing only one page or who leave because the page is slow loading). We build smarter so your website is faster Improve visitor retention by speeding up your website...
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Building pages with Drupal (or what are nodes, blocks, views and panels?)

Chris O'Brien July 20, 2015 0 Comments
As with most tasks you’ll face when creating or managing a website using the Drupal content management system (CMS) there are multiple ways to create and display content. In this article we’ll look at the four main content creation, curation and display methods that we use when building sites for clients. Nodes Nodes are items of content, based around a collection of content fields – so...
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Our favourite spam bot prevention modules for Drupal 7

Chris O'Brien July 08, 2014 0 Comments
Drupal has a number of modules designed to help websites combat comment and contact form spam generated by automated systems known as "bots", in this article we're going to focus on using a few of the best modules available to combat this ever growing annoyance. CAPTCHA It's best to think of the CAPTCHA module for Drupal as a framework or pathway to adding in different types of CAPTCHA checks -...
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Customising the “Submitted by” text in Drupal 7

Chris O'Brien June 08, 2014 0 Comments
Customising the default "Submitted by..." text used in Drupal 7 is pretty simple, and just required a single edit to your theme's template file. Go to your ./themes/yourtheme folder and open the template.php file in your text editor. Add the function below at the end of the template.php file (remember to replace "yourthemename" with the actual name of your theme). '!datetime' => $vars , )); }...
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Remove “All Day” from Date field output in Drupal 7

Chris O'Brien February 04, 2014 0 Comments
We use the Date module for Drupal for a lot of the sites we develop, some require a date to be displayed, for example in a listing of events or "dates for your diary" but don't want to list a time or have the date listed as an "All Day" event. The answer is pretty simple, just add the below into your theme's template.php <?php function _date_all_day_label() { return ""; } ?>
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