Adding Metadata to Your Drupal Nodes
This week’s tutorial explains how to add metadata to your Drupal site. By default, Drupal has no fields for metadata. Check the source code at and you’ll see what I mean. To fix that issue, we recommend a module…
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Installing Joomla Locally on Your P.C.
Following on from other newsletters where we showed you how to set up Joomla on a Mac and also how to develop locally and moving your site to a live server, this week we’re going to walk you through installing…
Send Joomla Updates to Twitter, Facebook and More
Would you like to be able to update your Joomla site and automatically send that update to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, Ning and dozens of other sites? This tutorial will show you how. Our first part will be to create…
Improving Drupal URLs with the Pathauto Module
This tutorial was requested by a student who is learning the Drupal basics. They turned on “Clean URLs” in the Drupal admin area and were surprised to see that the URLs remained largely unchanged: Old: /?q=node/3 New: /node/3 The student’s…
Importing RSS Feeds Into Joomla Articles
This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and import it into your Joomla site. Each item on the RSS feed will become a separate Joomla article. We use this technique for a couple purposes: Distributing our…
Thoughts on Being Elected to Open Source Matters
Last week I was fortunate enough to be elected to the Open Source Matters board along with 5 others. After having a very U.S.-centric board, it’s great to see such a wide diversity of new members. Add a Aussie and…
Importing RSS Feeds Into WordPress Posts
This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and import it into your WordPress site. Each item on the RSS feed will become a separate WordPress post. We use this technique for a couple purposes: Distributing our…
Review of RSSEO Suite by RSJoomla.com
I must admit I knew nothing about RSSeo before starting this review despite having used other RSJoomla products before. After few minutes of using it, I realised it was very familiar: RSSeo is similar in many ways to iJoomla SEO…
Printer-friendly Versions of Drupal Articles
In this tutorial we’ll show you how to add a “Print This Page” button to Drupal. The main reason you’d want to do this is as a courtesy for your readers. Many still print things they read online and you…
Creating Printer-friendly Versions of WordPress Posts
In this tutorial we’ll show you how to place add “Print This Post” button to WordPress. The main reason you’d want do this is as a courtesy for your readers. Many still print things they read online and you don’t…