The feed Aggregator is not a view, nor a page. (At least you can not find it in the views list or doing a content search for "page." In order to change the name on the page from "feed aggregator" to a more seach engine friendly title, you must go into Site Building > Menus > Navigation Menu > Edit.

This tip will show you how to update the URL Aliases of many modules in a single page visit.  To do this we will use VBO - Views Bulk Operations.  Read More »

Here's a quick tip to make Theming your Drupal website a little easier.

The Problem

For me, theming is a dance between my text editor, FireFox views of my Drupal website, and Firebug.  How many times have you looked in Firebug to find and modify an element's CSS properties, just to realized that there is no CSS declaration for the element in question? IF this happens to you all the time, you are in exactly the right place! Read More »

Creating a subtheme is a powerful and flexible way of theming in Drupal. Drupal 6 made implementing subthemes relatively easy to do. There are a few basic concepts to understand before starting, but once underway, creating a subtheme is a simple straightforward process. In this post, I'll outline the process for creating a subtheme. This is meant to be a quick primer, not an exhaustive tutorial on the elements and features of subthemes. Read More »

Q: How many Drupal themers does it take to perform a custom field label colonectomy?
A:  You don't want to know.

Our journey began with what seemed to be a simple request:  How do you remove the colons from the end of field labels on a Drupal 6 site?  Read More »

A user on the Twin Cities PHP User Group asked this question recently, with the context being the configuration of a complex site with many users and data relationships between those users and other content. 

In these communities Drupal sometimes gets a bad reputation.  People don’t fully understsand what they’re dealing with when they download Drupal.  They un-tar it, install it, and end up with a “now what” moment.  

As a community, how do we respond to this?   Here’s one example. Read More »

When you first enable the Upload module and start attaching files like PDFs to your nodes, you'll notice that those attachments are displayed in a table at the bottom of the node showing the file name and size of each file attached to the node.   This works for most situations, but sometimes you want to make things look just a little bit different.

In today's example we'll re-theme the attachments display to remove this table.   In our use case the user will only be attaching one file, a PDF, to each node.   Rather than have the PDF's name display in table - they want a simple link with the text "Download the PDF".    So how do we make this change?

The answer is a theme override.   The default attachments display is provided by theme_upload_attachments().  By overriding this theme function in our site's theme, we can change the behavior however we want.  In this tip we'll be learning how to override a theme function using some basic PHP knowledge and a bit of help from the Drupal API site.

Questions about how to deal with Internet Explorer's quirky ways of displaying our lovingly styled Drupal sites have been dominating our Lab Hours sessions and Labtime email list. Since IE display issues seem to be on everyone's mind of late (always), I've drafted detailed explanation of using separate stylesheets to handle displaying Drupal sites differently in IE. I welcome your thoughts, and especially encourage you to comment on this tip by providing links to sites with info about styling for IE.

If you are have teaser text on your website, and sometimes the teaser text is completely missing, though teaser text is visible for other occurrences of the same type of information, this is what is Read More »

At Lab Hours this past Wednesday, several people asked about text editing tools that would make working on Drupal theme files (page.tpl.php, template.php, style.css) easier.  I recommended the too Read More »