News/blog items tagged with Drupal

Most of the clients I set up Drupal web sites for are not experts at hand-editing HTML, and prefer to use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) or Rich Text editor to create their content. I generally set them up with the WYSIWYG API module, and use the FCK Editor or CK Editor plugin. Over the couple of years I have been using this module, I've learned a few configuration tricks, so I thought I'd share them here.

The Seattle Drupal User Group put on a free Drupal workshop for beginners in October of 2009, called the "Seattle Drupal Clinic". I now have a web site up at poplarclass.com that contains the agenda, curriculum, planning spreadsheets, a "lessons learned" page, and other resources. If your group is planning a similar workshop, you might find it useful, and all of the information there has been placed in the public domain.

I've been using Drupal and creating Drupal sites for clients for several years now, and I (finally!) decided it was time to convert my own web site to Drupal too. Like many other people I know in the web industry, I haven't necessarily made my own web site a priority. So, you may have noticed some glitches (broken links, bad text, etc.), but on the whole I think the move was a success.

I recently completed the process of adding SimpleTest tests to two modules that I maintain on drupal.org: Porter Stemmer (a module that adds linguistics-based matching of word forms to Drupal's core Search module, so that you can match "walk", "walking", "walks" etc.