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Hosting options for Stanford Websites (WordPress)

October 11, 2016

Today at Wordpress Community of Practice meeting JB asked me to post in a slack channel my comments on hosting options for a CMS website and what criteria were imporatant to me. Here they are.

Our module on drupal.org

October 6, 2016

Yes!!! After series of corrections our first module has been accepted and now is a full project!!!

https://www.drupal.org/project/views_filters_summary

Editable Views

August 15, 2016

Amazing module - https://www.drupal.org/project/editableviews

Now you can change value in the field without going to "edit" tab.

Integration of Drupal and Wordpress via theme

August 12, 2016

Hass Center's main website is on Drupal, and it has been recently updated to have the new Stanford light theme. Cardinal Service website is one of the other sites for Haas: it is a blog and it is  built on Wordpress. Haas wanted all sites to look the same—makes sense. So we built a WP theme that completly matches Drupal Stanford Light theme based on Universtity IT-provided Lagunita wordpress theme. 

Running list of useful links

October 12, 2015

I add to this list all kind of links that I would like to visit again in random order

Tokens do not allow editing content type

March 19, 2015

If you have problem loading main page of a content type on a site with too many tokens you can use module 

https://www.drupal.org/project/token_tweaks

Hiding "indirect" content from site visitors

February 7, 2015

When we build a website using Drupal CMS our first priority is to make Content Manager's experience most efficient and make website a productivity tool for your organization.  During this buildig process we often define content types and add content that has "service" nature. One of good examples could be session content type for an event.   This content type allows content managers to manage conference sessions more efficiently, but back side of that sessions appear as nodes in search results or could be accessed "accientally".  Couple of solutions that we found for this problem:

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