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Views Nivo Slider is a an Image Slider based on the jQuery library. IMHO, it is one of the nicest image slider available for Drupal. Even though configuring it might not be intuitive the first time, this wonderful module has plenty of documentation and examples. So Kudos to the module development team!

Well… I would like to recommend this module in case you need an image slider in your front page (or landing page). It made one of my clients very happy, and again. I would like to congratulate the team for not only the module, but also for its documentation.

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If you plan to use the securepages module behind a proxy that terminates SSL, there are some additional server configuration steps you need to take.

In order to detect what the protocol is in use, securepages tests the value of $_SERVER['HTTPS']. Out of the box, this merely reflects the immediate connection to your proxy. If this protocol differs from that used by the original client, then securepages can't work (the most likely outcome is a redirect loop).

To resolve this, you'll need to ask your proxy to send the X-Forwarded-Proto header. While you're free to use any header label you choose, X-Forwarded-Proto seems to have become the de facto standard.

Everyone knows the top-tier Drupal modules, but with over 5,000 modules available for Drupal it’s no surprise that many useful ones go unnoticed. As a public service to the Drupal community, Palantir is working to raise awareness of some of these unsung heroes.

In part 4 of our ongoing 5,162-part series, we present: Menu Block: Revisited

In Menu Block (Part I), I talked about its basic options. In this part, I’ll be going into the crazy non-obvious options:

The “options” toggle in menu_block for Drupal 7

Plans for the Aegir 1.0 release and how we'll get there

Last week at DrupalCon Copenhagen Antoine Beaupre and I shared our plans for the 1.0 release of the Aegir hosting system. After the 0.4 release that we are currently working on, the project will start working towards a final 1.0 build, rather than head towards 0.5.

Our goal for Aegir has been to implement a hosting system with a stable documented API that provides a solid foundation for integration of other services. Once we hit the 0.4 release, we will have the infrastructure in place to support this. With our key goal met, we've begun determining our must have features for a 1.0 release.

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Those of you managing Drupal sites with large menus (even better if translated) will know that it can take some time (understatement) to edit your menus and re-organize them.

The menu_editor plugin install easily without dependencies and offers a new entry in the menu edition area.

Once you select “POWER EDIT” (which it really is), you get access to a single page where you can edit each menu entry (link, name, language, status). With this, editing your menus becomes a pleasure and not a torture.

I like Prepopulate. I like to have that pseudo-RESTful way of preloading a form to minimize the amount of work a user has to do to get to the point of submitting a form. But I also like clean URLs. This post reviews in detail a technique to use a single prepopulated nodereference field to prepopulate a bunch of other fields based on that reference. Since Prepopulate’s recent 2.0 release, it because a whole lot more difficult to use the Form API to work magic on what it provides.

I use this in conjunction with nodereference to tailor node forms for their relationship with the referenced node.

There are two new features included in the new version of  Scribe SEO plugin, Scribe keyword search tool and Scribe link building tools that I am sharing with you today.

Also a very nice free SEO report still available for your to download now at Scribe SEO site, it’s very useful to learn SEO, easy to emplement it, especially if you are running a multi-authors blog or you are publish a lot of new posts everyday, this will save your time and give you the power of customizing your content for search engines.

Hopefully by now you’ve discovered our new website design – maybe you’re even reading this after clicking the link on our home page. However you got here, we hope you’ll agree that this design is a big step forward in many ways.

Though the new design definitely features a much brighter look, the changes aren’t just cosmetic. We’ve changed how the site is built, added tools to improve usability and tried to put things where they’ll be useful and easy to find, especially our online services that are available for you 24/7.

We’re using new software, called Drupal, to manage the website. It’s the same software that the Ottawa and New York City libraries have recently adopted, along with the White House, to help manage their online information.

This software will make it easier for us to update the site, and we  look forward to taking full advantage of new features to keep the website vibrant and interesting with useful new content that’s easy to find and easy to read.

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CivicActions has been working with Google's “Make the Web Faster” project team to make some (last minute) improvements that make Drupal 7 faster.

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Yesterday afternoon we made a new Alpha release of Pay for Drupal available.  What is Pay you might ask? At its core Pay is a modular API for accepting, processing and tracking payments.  If you want to be able to accept payments on your Drupal site for simple transactions with out "Add to cart" or complicated checkout procedures then Pay is for you!  To learn more about Pay, take a look at our blog post last week and check out the project page.

As part of the Pay API we provide a set of base classes which can be extended to provide payment forms or payment methods and gateways.  Out of the box we're currently shipping with support for Authorize.Net and PayFlowPro payment gateways. While at DrupalCon Copenhagen I began adding support for PayPal Website Payments Pro and Standard. While still under development some of this work is now available for testing in the latest alpha.

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In part 1 of our Maestro module overview we explained the different task types that we have available in the module. One of these task types is the Interactive Task and this blog post will be to better explain this task type and how to create your own custom function for it to use.

In an interactive workflow driven process, there are many times you need to present information or request information to a user. Examples of this would include:

• Submit a task to a user to create or update a content type record. This may be a drupal article or something more site specific like a job request setup as a custom content type
• Prompt a user to review a piece of information to approve or reject it - possibly an article or that job request
• Ask a user for some information using a form - results of which need to be used in the subsequent workflow
• Ask a user to pick from a list of users who should be assigned a subsequent task in the workflow
• Show a user some information - may not require any action

Basically any task where we want to interact with the user and we want full control over what is displayed. We may need to prompt the user with custom submit actions and execute code depending on what action the user takes.

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Quicktabs, the Drupal module that allows you to create blocks of tabbed content such as views, blocks and nodes, and which I co-maintain with Csuthy Balint (Pasqualle on drupal.org), received a couple of significant changes recently. One of the changes, allowing Quicktabs blocks to be exported just like you export Views and other CTools exportables, had been submitted as a patch by Young Hahn of Development Seed a shamefully long time ago and I had procrastinated about certain aspects of it. But building client websites at Work [at] Play, the dev team has been making huge efforts to keep everything in code, and it became increasingly clear to me that Quicktabs' lack of exportability was a Bad Thing; my fellow developers were surely casting sidelong, disapproving glances at me as its author, wondering what on earth the problem was. Yay - Quicktabs are now exportable! So I have created the 6.x-3.x branch of the module in order to accommodate this change.

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Frank will do a brief talk about Phase2's work with CDN at the next DC Drupal Meetup. Hope to see you there: Monday, September 13th at 7 PM.

Have you ever wonder how many Drupal websites are there? What about Drupal modules and themes?  Ever wanted to know how has Drupal evolved since it was created?

Find out all you ever wanted to know about Drupal, but were afraid to ask.

Take a look at this fast overview of basic facts about Drupal, print out a card and use it as a handy resource to promote the awesome features of this powerful CMS. You can even download a version for t-shirt and become the coolest geek on your next meetup or Drupalcamp.

Questions covered:

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This is the question I got at many events where I presented about localize.drupal.org. We've just rolled out support for suggestion exports for translators about a month ago to make quality control and management easier, but that does not help people much who are just looking to download what's available.

I've also announced about three months ago that translation downloads were becoming stable and continually generated in a nice pace. However, the usability of those downloads left a lot to be desired. When looking at project pages on the site, you were shown a bland list of links to major Drupal versions the project was compatible with which all led to a long list of filenames on an FTP browser frontend. Also, some files being months old looked shocking given I've told you the downloads are now stable and up to date.

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