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  • GoDaddy Drupal 6 Setup   16 years 11 weeks ago
    GoDaddy loves Drupal

    Not having shell access really limits GoDaddy's inexpensive shared hosting and prevented me from learning how to use Drupal, now this has changed, thanks for the tip.

  • Drupal Nofollow Link Sculpting   16 years 12 weeks ago
    dpr() or print_r()

    If you want to see what is in the $link you can do:

    print_r($link);

    or

    dpr($link); // if devel module is installed/enabled

    You need to decide which links you want the nofollow on. So, look at the 'href' for all $link data coming in, and you can do something like the following if you have multiple links to add nofollow to:

    $nofollows=array('first-link','second-link','third-link');
if (in_array($link['href'], $nofollows)) {
$link['localized_options']['attributes']['rel']='nofollow';
}
  • Drupal Nofollow Link Sculpting   16 years 12 weeks ago
    What would I use for the if

    What would I use for the if statement where links [href] == I'm not having much luck with getting this working on my Drupal 6 site although I'm not great with php. I renamed the function to the name of my theme

    function customtheme_menu_item_link($link)
    but I'm not sure how to make a specific menu item use the rel=nofollow. Any suggestions?

    Thanks

  • 503 HTTP Status Code when Site Down   16 years 12 weeks ago
    HTTP Tool to verify status from URL

    I like to use Send HTTP Tool to verify and debug status code from the URL when Im sending different HTTP request to the web.
    Try it you may find it useful:
    http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Server-Tools/WIN-HTTP-Send...

  • Use Drupal Views Group By Module to Show Closest Matches by Terms   16 years 12 weeks ago
    Views Group By Module

    Do you have the Views Group By module installed? You need that for this view code to work.

    Kristen

  • Use Drupal Views Group By Module to Show Closest Matches by Terms   16 years 12 weeks ago
    6.x-2.8

    I'm using 6.x-2.8 as well. When I had used an earlier version, I got that error.

    Hmmm... you could try:

    * running update.php
    * clearing all your caches

    Kristen

  • Use Drupal Views Group By Module to Show Closest Matches by Terms   16 years 12 weeks ago
    I have 6.x-2.8 do you mean

    I have 6.x-2.8
    do you mean 6.x-3.0-alpha2?

  • Use Drupal Views Group By Module to Show Closest Matches by Terms   16 years 12 weeks ago
    Latest Views

    If you update to the latest views, that error should go away.

    Kristen

  • Use Drupal Views Group By Module to Show Closest Matches by Terms   16 years 12 weeks ago
    Hello, I have this error: #

    Hello,
    I have this error:

    # Field handler views_groupby.views_sql_groupedfields is not available.
    # Field handler views_groupby.views_sql_groupedfields is not available.

  • New Drupal Views Examples Module   16 years 13 weeks ago
    Thanks for this modules.

    Thanks for this modules. There are good examples.

  • High Performance Drupal Steps   16 years 14 weeks ago
    Performance - Boost Module

    Love the content on your site, really helpful. Performance could use a bit of a boost though. Boost module should really help. You serve mainly static content to anon users, so Boost would make your site perform like a static html site - wouldn't even need to load php.

    P.S.: Who do you host with/which plan? Good to know - best judge of performance is watching a real live site over time.

  • Drupal Pathauto URL Aliases Settings   16 years 14 weeks ago
    I'm new to Drupal and after 2

    I'm new to Drupal and after 2 months of studying is finalising the very first site of mine.

    I have had many questions along the way and , surprisingly enought, google very often give me your site with answers to those questions. Good work and thank you!

  • Drupal Meta Tags (nodewords) Module for SEO   16 years 14 weeks ago
    It's Working

    Kristen,

    I followed your instructions and it appears to be working correctly with no problems. The full URL is showing up in the header.

    Also, I don't know if it was just a coincidence, but Google has indexed almost 30 more links since I did this and I have 5 more links with Clickthroughs.

    Thanks for the help.

    Bob

  • How did you get here?   16 years 14 weeks ago
    :)

    You are very kind. Hope you find some useful info to help make Drupal less mysterious.

    Cheers,
    Kristen

  • How did you get here?   16 years 14 weeks ago
    Hi Kristen- I did not want to be anonymous

    I am grateful that you are doing the work you do. While I am still struggling in the shock and awe phase of figuring out the basics of drupal, I can discern that you took on the most complex (and therefore most useful) projects when you created the SEO Friend and Featured Content modules. I will visit Kristen.org often for guidance because of your clear and concise writing style. Naturebridge.org was inspirational as an example of what can be accomplished. The "do good" nature of you projects is very telling about you.

    Put me down as a fan,
    Kelly Downs

  • Drupal Meta Tags (nodewords) Module for SEO   16 years 14 weeks ago
    Sounds right

    I haven't used that feature in the newer version of nodewords on a live site, but your assumption seems correct. I just tried playing with it right now with the dev version of nodewords but it won't let me save the meta tags for custom pages for some reason, so I can't check it.

    What I would do is:

    1) add it to canonical url to meta tags for one custom page

    2) save

    3) go to that page

    4) view source

    5) search for <link rel="canonical" in header

    6) make sure the link looks correct (it will prepend the base path)

    If so, then you should be fine to update all the pages.

    Btw, here's some general info on canonical URLs:

    https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

    Good luck,
    Kristen

  • Use Drupal Views Group By Module to Show Closest Matches by Terms   16 years 14 weeks ago
    Cool!

    Glad to hear it's working in views 3, and thanks for the extra tip for excluding the currently viewed node.

    Kristen

  • Drupal Meta Tags (nodewords) Module for SEO   16 years 14 weeks ago
    nodewords (Node Canonical URL)

    Kristen,

    I have a questions about the Node Canonical URL. According the text under the box, it says to "Use a relative URL without the initial slash"

    The reason I'm asking is all the pages listed on Woopra are just showing the relative link and I'm hoping that is not what Google is indexing.

    Can you clarify the entry for this? Is this how you're using it? I really wnat to be sure before I change over 200 nodes....

    Thanks,

    Bob

  • Use Drupal Views Group By Module to Show Closest Matches by Terms   16 years 14 weeks ago
    Thank You for this - works with views 2 & 3

    Thank You for this sweet piece of code. I have been looking for something like this for a while & also cannot believe that this works with both views 2 & views 3. Great job.

    To not display the current node you are on in the view (since this is for related nodes& therefore it should not include the actual node itself) - add a new argument - node:nid - default argument: node id from url - exclude this

  • Easily Add Drupal Related Content Blocks   16 years 14 weeks ago
    Post Tagging

    I think tagging would be a good idea espescially if you want to optimize your blog for ranking well in the search engines.

  • Make Drupal SEO Friendly   16 years 14 weeks ago
    Error & other things

    Kristen,

    Thanks for the reply. I think I have most of this set up, but the "nodewords" or meta data module has a lot of settings and the documentation for it is not very clear. I'm in the process of going back through my entire site and updating the meta data on each node, but it is all the different entries under the default and specific meta tags that are confusing.

    For example, under the Front Page, the block for entering your Canonical URL. It says to use a relative URL, but that does not make sense since this URL would be the home page or bobsdailyblog.com.

    Oh, well things are moving along I think since the number of visitors is being to increase and my Google webmaster tools are not showing any problems yet.

    Thanks for the help.

    Bob

  • Make Drupal SEO Friendly   16 years 15 weeks ago
    Error & other things

    Hi Bob,

    Glad you are checking out the SEO Friend module... hope it helps you.

    Note that although all those SEO-related modules are listed, there are only a few that are "must haves". Here's a list with some notes on these Drupal SEO modules.

    As for errors, it's good to check out the issue queue at drupal.org. That error is there (https://www.drupal.org/node/694942) and, unfortunately, I've been unable to reproduce it. But, I did make one change in my dev version that *may* help, so you can download that and try it. You can grab it here: https://www.drupal.org/node/494956/release (look for seo_friend 6.x-1.x-dev)

    I'm sorry you are unable to use Global Redirect along with Path Redirect. I'm surprised they are now incompatible... bad news. Perhaps using an older version of Global Redirect would be the best move there so you can use both.

    As for Drupal 7, I don't believe any of the listed SEO-related modules will be in "core" but all the important ones should be ported at some point. That is currently on my to-do list for my contributed modules.

    For additional questions and bug reports, here's the SEO friend issue queue: https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/seo_friend?categories=All

    Btw, I'm also trying to spread the word about my Featured Content module that lets you easily create many different kinds of featured/related content blocks. I recently added that to the SEO modules list in the SEO friend module.

    Good luck,
    Kristen

  • Make Drupal SEO Friendly   16 years 15 weeks ago
    Drupal SEO Friend Module Error With a few Questions

    Hi Kristen,

    First I want to thank you for developing this module. It really helps a SEO novice like me, WOW there are a lot of modules to add.

    The first thing I want to mention is about your module is I'm receiving the following error when I click on the "Meta Tags (node) Report"
    warning: Illegal offset type in /####/#####/public_html/sites/all/modules/seo_friend/seo_friend.admin.inc on line 485

    The next thing is I have two questions.

    1. I have "Global Redirect" loaded, but your model says I should also load "path_redirect" however, there is a critical compatibility issues with that module and the Global Redirect 6.12. Is there a way to check for duplicate paths?

    2. Do you know how much of this SEO stuff will be added to the core of the new Drupal 7 version?

    Thanks

    Bob

  • Use Drupal Views Group By Module to Show Closest Matches by Terms   16 years 15 weeks ago
    I've been waiting a year to

    I've been waiting a year to see it...

    Thank you! :]

  • Easy Drupal Backups with Backup and Migrate Module   16 years 15 weeks ago
    Thanks for the tips!

    I'll try them out ;)

    Kristen

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