Drupal

Eventbrite Attendees Block

My first public Drupal 8 module, created for Drupal Camp Asheville 2017, allows site administrators to display a list of attendees to an Eventbrite event. Read More

Backdrop CMS

This weekend I had some extra time on my hands and decided to checkout Backdrop CMS. Then I wrote a long post about it... sort of Read More

Guide to Drupal 8 Theme Development

Originally planned as an introduction to Drupal 8 theme development with Twig, this quickly became a very in-depth guide to many important aspects for building a complete theme. Read More

Custom Drupal 7 Rules Conditions and Actions

Some example Drupal Rules hooks providing conditions and actions. Read More

Drupal 7 Themeing Notes

An ongoing list of notes, hints, tips and tricks for Drupal 7 themes and modules. hook_theme(), hook_preprocess_hook(), Drupal render arrays, and many more resources and technical details. Read More

Drupal 7 Invite module: Send invite_by_email programmatically

How to use the entity api's entity_metadata_wrapper() to send invitation emails provided by the invite_by_email module. This approach can easily be setup as a custom rule action to provide significant flexibility. Read More

Unlimited Fields Remove

Drupal 7 did the much-needed job of bringing CCK fields into core, but forgot an important piece of the user experience when they did not include a button to easily delete field values. This experimental module provides that missing UX. Read More

Cron Reports

Paired with Elysia Cron this experimental module can be configured to send email reports consisting of subsets of watchdog log messages. Read More

Views JS Load

This simple module allows the site admin to choose to load views dynamically with ajax, as opposed to being rendered directly on the page. This is very useful when dealing with caching such as varnish. Read More

Custom Batch Processes

A module that attempts to simplify the creation of a custom Drupal 6 batch process. Read More

A Very Introduction to Drupal’s hook_form_alter()

Very basic example of a drupal module that works in both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7. Read More

Ajax Comment Pagination & Overriding Default Views as a Feature

This post describes generally how to create ajax paging comments, how to package the created comments into a feature, and how to override default views created by modules. Read More

How to modify a new Drupal 6 user programmatically

There are many things you may want to do to a new user on your Drupal website. You may want to apply a new role, require approval, or even programmatically create node with the new user as the author. Read More

Custom caching in your Drupal module

Recently I needed to implement caching for a custom Drupal module. I needed my module to cache exactly every 30 minutes on the hour and half-hour. Read More