Bonus Grid Count in Views

Mar 13
view output set to display on the same page add $view->gridcount = 2; to php handling code under arguments

Admin Menu disappears after upgrade

Mar 13
Add <?php echo $closure; ?> just before closing html tag in page.tpl.php

Filtering view by date

Mar 14
You have a calendar of events displayed in a view, you want only the current and future events to display. Add the Date: date - Date (field_date_event) filter. Set to greater than or equal to and do not use the pop up calendar, enter "now" instead.

One of the Categories not showing up as an option in views

Mar 14
Sometimes all category options are not available. add another dummy category then the actual one is available and the dummy does not show up

Conference Package Install

Mar 15
Do not install drupal. Create the database and put the 5x files in the root folder. Put the COD module into the profile folder. Create a modules folder in the COD folder. There is a list of modules in the COD readme. Put all of them in profile/COD/modules. Now when you go to install.php, you can choose the COD install instead of the default. Create a themes folder in profile/COD and put the conference theme in it. There are more specific instructions. Follow all of them in the readme.

Recipe

Mar 22
Recipes are not being submitted. Issue was a recipe where there was an ingredient listed twice. Obviously you cannot list the same ingredient more than once.

Brilliant Gallery

Mar 29
This is really easy to use. Configure brilliant, then enable tags for brilliant gallery in the input types. Make a folder for your images put it in the files folder. Put each group of photos in a separate folder in this main folder. They have to be jpg and for it to look good they need to be the same size. Create a page for the galleries. Add this code. [bg|folder] More information is here www.vacilando.eu/bg

Floated Image Height

Apr 28
Sometimes there is not enough text to extend to the bottom of a floated image in a div. Add <div style="clear: both;"></div> just above the closing div.

Flashnode

Apr 29
Cool module to very easily add flash. Nothing extra to add works in 5x and 6x. To insert within a node, [flashnode|nid=nnn]

Clean Urls

May 01
On a Debian System Enable clean URLs open a terminal first step: as root # a2enmod rewrite comes back with run Module rewrite installed; run /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload to enable second step if Mepis: go to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf find the area where there are "Directory" tags in this section, add AllowOverride all Second step if Sidux: Go to apache2 then to mods-available folder edit alias.conf editing AllowOverride from none to all Both systems: within the <IfModule alias_module></IfModule> tags add a segment for each site that needs clean urls <Directory /var/www/sitefolder> AllowOverride all </Directory> Substituting each folder for "sitefolder" Restart apache (as root) /etc/init.d/apache2 restart