Adding Important Contributed Modules
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 01/11/2009 - 21:11
Lesson Four of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.
This video provides guidance on downloading, installing and configuring several contributed modules from Drupal.org. These key modules are some of the most important ones to add no matter what type of site you want to build with Drupal.
- Mollom for spam protection
- PathAuto for configurable automated URLs
- FCKEditor for WYSIWYG post editing
- IMCE for uploading images to insert into posts
- Poor Mans Cron for easy execution of the Drupal cron file
Bookmark or Share Post- learnbythedrop's blog
- 4547 reads
Comments
Hi, just to let you know you missed a dash in the Getting Started link ;)
Thanks for your tutorials! (didn't watch this one though)
There is no dash in the getting started link. It's all one word. http://learnbythedrop.com/gettingstarted.
that was careless. I thought I clicked the link but apparently I typed 'gettingstarted' in another open tab at drupal.org instead of your site.
Your videos really helped me figure Drupal out since I am much more of a monkey see monkey do kinda guy. I wish Drupal.org featured your videos, I bet a lot more people would get into it than be intimidated by it. You made my life easier as I am sure thousands of others, lots of good karma heading your way.
Thank you very much. it's my first day within Drupal World, and I found these video tutorials being very helpful ! Many Thanks Guys ! Keep it up !
Rob,
I was thrown in at the deep end with Drupal, some 7 weeks ago... I have been charged with building a web site for my Corps that I served with in the Australian Army in the Vietnam war, all those years ago.. So, I have disclosed my age but I am so very happy that I have come across your site... Even though there is plenty of documentation available on Drupal, at my age I have learnt, that simplicity works.. I wish to thank you and not am I only here to learn but I am here to stay... Thank you again..
Regards
Barry
Hi Rob, thanks for all your helpful videos. I'm totally new to the website developing world ( I don't even know if "developing" is the right term) and I can understand and enjoy all your tutorials! I couldn't have found a better place to learn Drupal...Thanks again
Glad to help. Best of luck with all of your Drupal development efforts.
Hello, firstly thanks for these! finding them great, I have a problem though...
I followed the instructions, everything's cool up until poormanscron, when I go to status report, I have the exclamation sign next to Drupal core update status, with "No update available" in the column next to it. There is also no module and theme update status in between GD library and MySQL database, what have I done wrong?!
(also - I've just logged in to create this post, and now the videos no longer appear, when I click "watch" it takes me to another page of videos, but any time I click "watch" again there is no video, just a description of the content and the video links tab - but when I log out, the video appears again?! - why is this?)
Thank you!!!
First off, that viewing videos while logged in is fixed. I had the permission on that field set incorrectly for logged in users.
As for the Drupal update status, first check to see that the "Update Status" module is enabled. Second, check your cron intervals in the settings for poormanscron at admin/settings/poormanscron. Assuming that Update Status is enabled, poormanscron will only run on the first page load after the interval time specified in your settings.
If not set already, set "Log successful cron runs:" to Yes so that you'll be able to get confirmation that cron has run in the Drupal logs.
Thanks for getting back so quick! I'll have a look through all that, just going through the premium video, when I go to the home page and my first example blog post is there, I notice I have the delete post option, but it isn't there on the video. Will all users see this, how can i remove it?
Thanks again
Hi,
these tutorials are really great,
please help me with one problem...
In status report ..I m getting HTTP request status as FAILS....
what do I need to change?
thanks
emjey
Rob, The videos are great! Thanks so much for posting them. I have been installing Drupal and following along with your videos.
My Drupal runs perfectly fine, except for one thing. When I click on Administer, it is extreeeeemely slow. Don't know what I did wrong. Clicking on anthing else is fast enough, only when I click on the actual 'Administer' link, it seems to slow down tremendously. Any thoughts???
How do Rob!
Loving the site - i know that with a combination of this site and a couple of books that i bought this weekend ill be well on the way to achieving the awesome sites that i have in my head!
I installed FCKE editor in line with this lesson and it worked great - but then it came to the adding rich content lesson and i think i maybe clicked a button and now the formatting buttons dont appear and text in the add content boxes appear in HTML.
I can't find what ive done wrong! Have you got any ideas?
If FCKEditor has disappeared, and it sounds like it has, the first thing I would do is check the settings for FCKEditor (admin/settings/fckeditor)to see that that there is a profile assigned to the appropriate role. In this case you would probably want to have a profile that is assigned to the authenticated user which is a standard level of access with a new drupal install. Please see http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/27 for more details on FCKEditor.
Hi guys!
just another thought......
Im most concerned about adding modules when i don't know much about programming. Im one of those people that will happily play with settings not really knowing what im doing but think that this ethos could see me in a bit of trouble!
Is there a recommended protocol for installing modules and testing them? And learning the pit falls of too many button clicks?
Cheers!
K
One piece of advice I'll give is to recommend that you have two sites. Have a sandbox (or test) site that allows you to try new things out before you try them on live sites whose functions are important to you.
One more tip is to check the issue queue of the module. Sometimes by reviewing issues you can tell if the module works well or not.
well... due to a mistake i made making a backup, i had to go start over, so this time i figured i would skip the imce/fckeditor installation sequence in this tutorial, and skip to what i ended up having to do to get it to work eventually last time due to the issue that arose in the later embedding rich media lesson, and all seemed perfect (got it all together on the first try, no problems - browse button there just as it should be, etc.)
well, now i realize i must have missed something, because while it looks like it is working fine, it is not. when i create pages, the fckeditor wysiwyg panel shows up, but whatever you do to the content with it does not carry over (images disappear, text formatting comes over with the html tags instead of just doing it - i.e. if you bold something, it shows it as being bolded, but when you get to the resulting page, it is word
what did i miss?
The first thing I can suggest is to check your input format for your nodes. See the following post for more details on input formats. http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/78
Post new comment