Tips : 50 Drupal Tips and Tricks

Drupal admin and configuration:

1. Create a "HTML help" block and assign it to appear on only "node/*/edit" and "node/add/*"
   
2. Use the "edit permissions" link on admin/user/roles to get a single column
   
3. Use the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar to "Populate Form Fields" on the access page for the admin role
   
4. Use "site:drupal.org {search terms}" to search all of drupal.org with
   Google. Set up a Firefox shortcut so you can type "dru [your search]" to
   search Drupal. Also api.drupal.org/apis/{search_term}

5. When using pathauto to alias usernames, don't let users change their usernames.
   
6. Use PathAuto and Path Redirect together to redirect old aliases to the new ones. Search engines will love you.
   
7. Use Global Redirect to make sure home page is "/" and current page doesn't have an alias.
   
8. When creating PathAuto template, keep uniqueness in mind -- perhaps add a date to your blog and news entries.
   
9. Move the "My Account" menu item by creating a custom menu item at 'user'
   
10. Use update_status module along with cvs_deploy & cvs tags to manage sites
    
11. Use ImageCache to resize images. It's worth the poor u.i. and configuration challenges. Tastes best with ImageField, CCK, and Views.
    
12. Turn any CCK type with an imagefield into a photocast with ConTemplate
    
13. Use Automatic Node Titles
    whenever you want to have separate (CCK) fields for first name and last
    name, but you want the node title to contain the full name.
    
14. Use SimpleMenu to remove the need for an admin block on the page.
    
15. Set your site in "offline mode" when doing Drupal upgrades, to
    ensure that your end users are never exposed to any funky errors.
    
16. Use locale.module to change English text into other English text.
    Example: change "Forums" to "Message Boards". Slight performance issue
    for high-traffic sites. In Drupal 6, there's a new "locale lite"
    feature to translate only a few pieces of interface text without the
    overhead of locale module itself. Check the bottom of
    default.settings.php for more details.
    
17. Use views + views_fastsearch to build "section search" or custom advanced search pages

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