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Kyle Taylor
24 Apr 2013

Radioactivity - Popularity by Decay

Radioactivity is a rockstar Drupal module that gives you a "hotness" metric for content, basically popularity or trend by the number of views the content receives. Based on how a lot of the other popularity-based modules work, such as FiveStar and Rate that requires user interaction, Radioactivity will give you the most organic results.

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Daniel Sipos
23 Apr 2013

How to access the node object from a template file

In this short tutorial I am going to show you how to access the node object from any template file. Say you need to work with some node information in a theme .tpl.php file and you don’t have access to the node content. What do you do? You get it from the URL. Come, I’ll show you.

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Paul Rowell
19 Apr 2013

The Drupal community and what makes it awesome

The Drupal community members are a numerous and varied breed of creatures, each with their own personality and quirks that make Drupal the awesome eco-system that it is. I’ve said this before: I love the community and the atmosphere it has. Below are some of the ways one can experience being part of this community.

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Daniel Sipos
15 Apr 2013

How to create your own jQuery UI accordions and tabs in Drupal 7

In this screencast I will show you how easy it is to get the jQuery UI accordion and tabs functionality on your own Drupal 7 site. All you need to do is install a couple of modules and you are good to go. No need for adding any custom jQuery into your theme or module, it is as simple as installing 2 modules.

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Daniel Sipos
12 Apr 2013

Redirecting to a custom page after user login

Ever needed to redirect a user to a custom page after logging in? Look no more as there are a couple of cool modules out there that allow you to do just that. Moreover, there is also some code you can use in a custom module to do a redirection according to your needs.

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Daniel Sipos
08 Apr 2013

5 cool modules that extend Context

Anyone who ever used the Context module already knows the power and value behind it. By default, you get a number of handy conditions you can set (a context) in order to allow various things to ‘happen’ on your site. For instance, you can change the positioning and visibility of your blocks depending on various conditions. Cool stuff.

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Daniel Sipos
03 Apr 2013

Theming the username link in Drupal 7 - the catch

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to programatically output a username link on the page. When theming a Drupal site or building a module, you might need to access the user account and print out the username. There is a Drupal theme function made specially for this but it has a catch. So let’s see what that is.