How-tos

The Drupal console is a very useful tool that allows you to manage your Drupal application from CLI. You can use it to configure and debug your Drupal website, install, modify and delete extensions or themes and many other things. … Continued

Often Drupal (especially the older versions like 6.x) has problems with Spam bots which flood its comment modules. The first thing to do in this case is to disable the comments modules until you clean all the Spam posts. This … Continued

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication – a web feed format for publishing frequent updates of site content such as news, blog posts, etc. Publishers benefit from RSS feeds because this lets them syndicate their site content automatically. Readers benefit from web … Continued

By default the latest content in Drupal is displayed on the top of the page. If you would like to have a content item displayed above others, you can use the sticky option. To stick a content item, log in … Continued

If you cannot log into your Drupal application using your parked domain, you should change the following line in the sites/default/settings.php file: $cookie_domain = ‘yourdomain.com’; to $cookie_domain = $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]; This way Drupal will send the proper cookie information, matching the domain name … Continued

In order to enable caching in Drupal, log in as administrator and follow the steps below: Drupal 6.x: Go to Site Configuration Select Performance Under the Caching mode section, select Normal Under the Block cache section, select Enabled Save the changes by clicking on Save Configuration Drupal 7.x: Go … Continued

Drupal is one of the most popular CMS applications, offering stability and performance for almost any kind of site. However, if you don’t maintain it properly, it can become slow. Here are some tips on how to optimize your Drupal: … Continued

The version of your Drupal can be seen from the Drupal admin area -> Administer –> Reports -> Status report. Alternatively, you can open the CHANGELOG.txt file located in your Drupal installation folder (for Drupal 8 the file is under core/CHANGELOG.txt) with your File Manager and check the Drupal version.

The global MySQL settings on a dedicated solution can be modified to achieve better performance for your website. If you are on a dedicated server with root access to your server, you will be able to make these changes yourself. The recommended settings should be … Continued

There are two easy ways to optimize the tables in your Drupal database. The easiest way is to install the DB Maintenance module. Information on how to install a Drupal module is available in our Drupal tutorial. After the module is installed and … Continued