DrupalDrips

Learn Drupal: Masquerade Module

The Drupal Masquerade module is an excellent tool for testing all kinds of settings within your Drupal site. The module allows you to easily switch between any other user and limit this capability to a group of users covered by a certain role. The catch, however, is to be certain you know what is happening with each role and user who has access to the powerful module. With one wrong setting, you can provide access to your whole Drupal site as if that person was the super user. In this video, I walk through the various settings and the process of testing the Drupal Masquerade module in order to facilitate faster site testing and also use it for support purposes.

Learn Drupal: Use Drupal email to send notifications to users

If you're seeking a solution to have Drupal email your users, then one of the best methods for doing this is the Messaging and Notifications modules. You won't find one specific Drupal email module on Drupal.org because sending email is already built into Drupal. It's they way, and when email, or any other message method is used, that you need to focus on. Sending out a message via any of the above mentioned methods, plus a Drupal email is easily accomplished with these modules. It's easy, because they offer all the methods plus more. One of my own recent requirements was having Drupal email all users of a given role for one specific content type, and then also support email notifications to admin users in another role. If this is the type of solution you're seeking for your Drupal site then this video may have what you're looking for.

How to Manage User Roles on Drupal 7

Drupal 7 Roles. I'll show you a quick run through of using the Roles in drupal, they are pretty cool and allow you to have flexible content limited to certain people.

Learn Drupal: Intro to Building Modules Part 2

This Drupal School video takes the scaffolding we build in the first video and adds some functionality such as saving settings, and displaying a message prompt to the end user.

Learn Drupal: Intro to Building Modules Part 1

This Drupal School video demonstrates how to get started building modules for Drupal 6.x.

How to Create a Custom Drupal 7 Theme

Here is how to get started with Drupal 7 Theming. Making a theme at first is confusing so I hope this clear it up,.

Drupal Tutorial: Drupal Link Intelligence

Link Intelligence facilitates linking of related content in a Drupal website. The Getting Started tutorial shows the basics of how Link Intelligence auto linking works for both in content and sidebar links.

Drupal Tutorial: Installing Drupal Modules & Themes

In this short video, we'll show you how to install and turn on new modules and themes for your Drupal website.

Learn Drupal: Dynamic Views using Views Arguments

Tutorial on creating dynamic views using views arguments with the Drupal CMS platform.

Learn Drupal: Twitter Module

Tutorial on Twitter module with the Drupal CMS platform.

Learn Drupal: Review of PathAuto Module

Tutorial on PathAuto module for clean URLs with the Drupal CMS platform.

Learn Drupal: Multisites vs Multiple Sites

Screencast about Multisites vs multiple site instances with the Drupal CMS platform.

Learn Drupal: Using Mollom Module

Tutorial on using the Mollom module for comments with the Drupal CMS platform.

Learn Drupal: Theme Makeover - Modifying an Existing Theme

Tutorial on changing an existing theme on the Drupal CMS platform.

Learn Drupal: Creating an Optimized Drupal Setup

Tutorial on creating an optimized Drupal setup

Learn Drupal: Setup Cron for Running Background Tasks

Tutorial on using Cron to run background jobs with the Drupal CMS platform.

Learn Drupal: Using Taxonomy Module

Tutorial on using Taxonomy for categories with the Drupal CMS platform.

Learn Drupal: Using Panels Module

Tutorial on using Panels with the Drupal CMS platform

Learn Drupal: Understanding the Drupal Block System

Tutorial on using Block system with the Drupal CMS platform.

Learn Drupal: Collecting Feedback using Webform Module

Tutorial on using Webform Module to attain feedback with the Drupal CMS platform.