Drupal 101: 10 Tips for Drupal Beginners
You often hear people say that the learning curve for Drupal is steep. They aren’t kidding – it is. I remember when I first started Drupaling, I had so many questions: How do I do this? How do I change that? What are Views? How the hell do I get images into my content? How do I theme? The Drupal documentation and community has come a long way in the few years since then, but even still, diving in to Drupal can be a bit daunting. In an effort to help remedy this, I’ve thrown together some quick-tips to steer all you beginners in the right direction.
Use Alfred to Search Drupal API Documentation
Quick tip on how I use Alfred to search Drupal API Documentation right from my desktop. Saves me tons of time and I love a solution that keeps my hands off of my mouse.
Use hook_views_query_alter to handle special sort cases
This week I ran into a problem I’d never run into before with a view. I needed to specify some custom sorting that the Views UI simply doesn’t have options for. Luckily, views provides a hook for just this situation.
