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Andrew Fletcher
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A bug bear that I have had for a while with Drupal content is how come the author of an article is actually their username. I have an array of reasons to vent my dislike for this strategy... however, instead I will show you how to change it. Albeit, programmatically! Don't stress there actually isn't a huge amount of code to add. In time I'll create a module so no coding is required.
Setting up account fields in the admin area
To begin let's add new fields for...
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Time is essential to all of us... and if you are like me there is never enough...
Andrew Fletcher
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Updating Drupal from 8.7.10 to 8.8.x or 8.9.x has seen a significant change...
Andrew Fletcher
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As outlined in an earlier article composer php version, when installing the...
Andrew Fletcher
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Creating a new account in Mail on OSX Big Sur (11.2) and complete the required...
Andrew Fletcher
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Blocks are a great way to add pieces or chunks of content to your Drupal site. Capable of displaying simple text, images, forms or complex logic. There are plenty of sites around that show you how to add a simple custom block. However, if you are a developer like me, when you are writing your custom block programmatically it has far more requirements than a simple block. In this article, I'll show how to:
Create your initial custom block;
Adding a...
Andrew Fletcher
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Adding an image via RESTUI can be done in a snap... once you know how! I...
Andrew Fletcher
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When you are in the status report of the admin area are you finding the...
Andrew Fletcher
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The magically descriptive error 401 Forbidden "message": "Access...
Andrew Fletcher
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Loading the node
To query the node, I prefer to create a series of functions to...
Andrew Fletcher
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If you are like me you probably have searched for clues to and found little... particularly when confronted by the errors as you unravel how this works. Okay a slight exaggeration, there are snipets of info that people have solved this annoying issue in making comments work in Drupal 8 REST services.
The lack of collective information in resolving issues has meant hours of debugging and working through core code to understand what is actually happening. If you want to...
Andrew Fletcher
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Registering a user via REST is an important process particularly when the...
Andrew Fletcher
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As a process I apply patches locally first, then using git upload the update(s)...
Andrew Fletcher
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While the Drupal site has a great outline of the steps to follow, I found we...
Andrew Fletcher
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First transfer the drupal-8.8.x.tar.gz file to your directory
Via your ssh...