Tips and Tricks: Modules

How to easily and quickly implement background audio for a Drupal website

The module Background Audio playback offers you an easy way to implement background audio on your Drupal website. The installation instructions on the module page are very brief and incomplete, what might create some obstacles during installation and configuration. This short howto will help you to go quickly and easily through the process.

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Drupal Commerce membership websites - Role-based products & recurring payments

1., 3., 4. and 5. can be combined to sell product based roles and to have an advanced recurring framework (compared to 2.)

Drupal Commerce membership websites - recurring payments

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Use the module "Media: TED" to easily publish videos from ted.com on your Drupal website

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages.

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Install "Module Filter" to simplify your module administration

The modules list page can become quite big when dealing with a fairly large site. To simplify the module administration you can install the module "Module Filter". The module provides you a filter textfield and a tab for each package.

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Drupal GMap Module: How to automatically zoom and centre gmap views?

Building a map view using the Drupal views, gmap and location module you might require a solution that automatic

Adjust the gmap settings within view to enable autozoom of map

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Use Google Analytics to increase traffic

Google Analytics gives you fresh insights into how visitors use your site, how they arrived on your site, and how you can keep them coming back. Understanding your visitor will help you to optimise your site and to increase the number of visitors. For an easy implementation you can use the Drupal module Google Analytics. The Tutorial below offers you step-by-step instructions to do so.

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How to display Drupal blocks based on location - Drupal geolocation block

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Install the administrator menu module to save time

Using the standard administration menu often requires you to click several times to get to the desired function. To make this process faster you can install the "Administration menu" which gives you a direct access to the different admin functions (drop-down menu).

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Use the Drupal module "jQuery AJAX Load" for a quick and easy AJAX integration

jQuery AJAX Load is an helper module for easy loading any content using build in jQuery load function. It allows you for a quick and easy Ajax integration.

Just enable the module and add class .jquey_ajax_load to any link, URL content (without other regions) will be loaded on #jquery_ajax_load_target element. Those classes and id could be personalized to your needs. Target element coould be set on a per-link basis using the data-target attribute to define a valid jQuery ID.

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Back up your database

Install the module Backup and Migrate to back up your Drupal site. This is probably the easiest way to back up and restore your Drupal MySQL database.