Tips and Tricks: Modules

Use the Drupal module Menu Firstchild to create menu items without links

By default, Drupal requires that you enter a path for each menu link you add/edit from the Menu administration page. There are cases you may want to create a parent item, without any path, that simply links to its first viewable child item. Menu Firstchild provides this functionality.

Another similar solution (didn't worked smoothly in all cases): Special menu items

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.

The handy Drupal 8 module "Quick Node Clone" allows you to clone nodes easily

Are you looking for the successor of Node clone?

The Drupal 8 Quick Clone module works very similar as the Drupal 7 Node Clone module. The quick clone module allows users to make a copy of an existing item of site content (a node) and then edit that copy. Doing so the authorship is set to the current user and the menu and url aliases are reset.

Clone

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.

Drupal module "Module Filter"

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.

Drupal jQuery AJAX Load

How to create a Drupal view with future events / dates of nodes

All you have to do is create a new view that shows content of type 'event'... set that on the first page of creating your view. Make sure you check the 'block' option at the bottom - it's up to you whether you also want to create a page display or not, that's checked by default. Also, before moving onto the second page, make sure that your view is a list of 'fields' rather than 'teasers'.

How to create a Drupal view with future events/dates

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.

Ted.com integration with Drupal

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.

Use Google Analytics to increase traffic

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