Adding OOP to Your Drupal 7 Refactor
When you are used to working in Drupal 8 and beyond, having to make changes to custom Drupal 7 code can be unpleasant. If you’re lucky, the code was well written and maintained and you can make your changes without feeling like you’re adding to a house of cards. Too often, though, the code is in a state where it could really use refactoring.
Design System Integration with PatternKit
The UI Patterns module is gaining a lot of traction as an effective way to integrate design patterns and components with Drupal 8, but what if you are still using Drupal 7? The PatternKit module is a viable solution for your site.
Friday 5: 5 aspects of Component-Driven Backend Development with Drupal 7
Happy St. Patricks Day! This episode, Drupal Developer Anthony Fournier will show one approach to take Component Driven Development to Drupal 7 using Custom Content Panes and Panelizer.
Have a topic that you'd like to learn more about? Feel free to email us at Friday5@mediacurrent.com with any suggestions and stay tuned for the next episode. Have a great weekend!
New Case Study: Travelport Reaches Destination Drupal
Mediacurrent partnered with Travelport to build a new fully responsive Drupal website that would deliver a stable platform to support future growth, a more fluid user experience to satisfy their customer base, and a digital strategy roadmap to help build their brand.
Converting a Drupal 7 theme from CSS to Sass
I recently inherited a Drupal 7 theme that did not use CSS preprocessors like Sass or Less. While the CSS files were clearly organized, they contained more than 15,000 lines of code which made maintainability a difficult task.
Top Drupal 7 Modules: Final Edition
If you have been to the Mediacurrent blog before you have probably seen my Top 50 modules lists for Drupal 6 and 7...
Top Drupal 7 Modules: Winter 2014 Edition
Last part in our series on reviewing the top Drupal 7 Modules.
Building Multilingual Websites in Drupal 7
Internet usage has exploded throughout the world over the last decade. More than one third of the world's population now has internet access. In 2012 2.27 billion people were using the internet, which is double the number in 2011. The ability to serve fully translated content to users is more important than ever. Translated content can help you to better market your brand in new regions, and can help establish your website as an authority on its subject matter.
Top Drupal 7 Modules: Summer 2012 Edition
Introduction to Jay’s Summer List
There are literally thousands of modules available on Drupal.org. The funny thing is, most developers tend to use only a small percentage of those modules. So out of 16,000+ modules, many developers have only installed up to 200 different modules across their various projects. Furthermore, I think you will find that developers continually use only a few dozen of the same modules on almost every project. It's for that reason why from time to time I like to put together a list of my most-used modules. By doing so, I hope to help new developers figure out what modules they need by narrowing down a list of 16,000 down to around 50 or so modules.
Late last year I released my first top Drupal 7 modules which superseded my original Drupal 6 top modules list. After looking at feedback from my first D7 list, now 6 months later I wanted to give a refresh. As you will see, some new modules have been added to my favorites list while others have slipped in the rankings. This is certainly a subjective list. I am not trying to list the best modules or the newest hot modules out there, this list is all about my most used modules. This to means that if you are a Drupal newbie, you should have these on their radar.
Webinar: The Power of Maps and Drupal
The way we can create Maps in Drupal is changing. In this webinar I cover utilizing the Geofield and Openlayers contributed modules to create beautiful dynamic maps in Drupal. We explore what Geofield, Openlayers and their supporting modules do, and walk through an easy to follow recipe for using these contrib modules to create custom maps.