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In earlier versions of Drupal or for that matter even WordPress, the site could send email notifications easily using the PHP mail function. However, most hosts have disabled the default mail function due to security and vulnerability reasons. Therefore, emails will not go. This is not a Drupal issue as the same  issue we see on WordPress as well. In this post, we shall discuss how to let Drupal site send out emails using a third party module. Read more »

Looking for site hit counters to add to your Drupal website? Have you tired out some modules already? Some feel that there is no need to add site hit counters while some feel they should add. It's all up to you. Many websites still do. And though there are other ways to monitor site visits such as via Google Analytics. But placing a site visit counter could let us know if there has been any hits right from the page instead of using another service. In this post, we shall see how to add site hit counters to Drupal website easily. Read more »

I f you own a blog or website, Social Media sharing tools are must-have these days as one cannot ignore tons of users on Social Media. Most internet users nowadays have Social Media account be it Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter or any other social media platforms. And as a blogger or owners of websites, we cannot ignore the fact that our visitors may be willing to share content from our website and blog to Social Media platforms. So, if we place Social Media sharing tools on our blogs or websites for users to use, it is free promotion for publishers. There are tons of potential for traffic through Social Media platforms. So it is very important that Social Media tools are added to websites and blogs. Read more »

T he default Drupal login page at /user/login shows three tabs - Login, Create New Account and Request Password. Using the tabs, a visitor can either login, create a new account or request password. If visitors cannot create accounts on the Drupal website themselves, then the "Create new account" link or tab can be disabled easily from Drupal administration. But when using Profile2 and Profile2 Registration path, the Drupal default "user/register" path lies redundant. In this post, we shall see how to disable the "Create new account" tab from the default user login page. Read more »

S liders or Slideshows are dynamic elements usually displayed in home page of websites. Usually with a catchy background image and phrases, they grab attention. They are great additions to any websites to add more aesthetics to websites. Since they are dynamic, websites look more grand and alive. They can also be used to display important content and graphics to engage with visitors. And though sliders are not so good in terms of making websites easily accessible on mobiles over data network due to higher load times, it has still become a standard web design layout. In this post we shall discuss how to create testimonial sliders in Drupal 7 using Views Slideshow. Though the usual sliders we see are catchy background images with catchy phrases, sliders are not only meant for images. They can be any thing, almost. We can also display text such as testimonials, images, quotes etc. Read more »

T here may be times when we may want to direct users based on their Drupal Roles to different Front Page. For instance, we want users with administrator and content admin roles to see a dashboard, and regular users with "Authenticated User" roles to another dashboard specially designed for those users. In such cases, we want to redirect users based on their roles to different dashboard. In this post, we shall see how to set different Front Page for users based on their user roles. Page redirection can be easily achieved by using Rules. If you don't want to do it with rules, there are modules available for setting front page for different user roles. We shall be check out two methods to set front page for different user roles - by using Rules Module and another by using "Front Page Module" from Drupal Projects. Read more »

Drupal Modules are great way to extend your Drupal website. A Drupal module is a collection of files containing some functionality and is written in PHP. It can be installed and uninstalled. In this post, we will see how to install Drupal modules the standard way and to uninstall Drupal Modules. How to install modules in Drupal? There are basically three common ways to install Drupal modules which is popular, besides using "drush". One can install Drupal Modules by either of the following ways: Read more »