Levi Sigworth

First Year of Drupal

Title, then Body? Not so fast.

Monday, September 19, 2011 - 23:12

Many default or custom content types in Drupal will have the Title listed first on the "Add content" page, then the Body. The edit form is set up this way by default.

However, don't forget to take the needs of your content administrators into account. I recently was creating a "Testimonials" content type. It made the most sense to use the title field as the "Testimonial By" field, and the Body as the "Testimonial" field. However, the reading and editing order for this content type should be "Testimonial," then "Testimonial By."

Single Site to Multisite Environment (or vice versa)

Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 20:00

When moving a site from the "default" folder to a multisite setup, you'll need to change the files directory. Head to "/admin/config/media/file-system" and update the "Public file system path."

regions[content] is Required

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 19:42

I ran into an issue today. I rethemed a site in my development queue and declared my main content region as "regions[main_content]." This change introduced a problem that wasn't immediately apparent since the theme was already enabled on my development site.

However, when a colleague tried to rebuild this site minus the database, the Appearance page said "This version is not compatible with Drupal 7.x and should be replaced." Turns out that "regions[content]" is a required field for the theme .info file. Good to know.

.gitignore in Drupal Core

Monday, September 12, 2011 - 12:32

Included by default in Drupal Core is a .gitignore file. This file lives in the root folder. So why is it worth noting?

If you are using Git for version control, then this .gitignore file sets up recommended directories and files that should NOT be under version control. When we take a look at this file, we see the following: