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Pimping Your Site
Michael Anello DrupalEasy @ultimike
Monday, February 14, 2011
Awesome modules to enhance your site.
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Pimping Your Site Michael Anello DrupalEasy @ultimike Monday, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Pimping Your Site Michael Anello DrupalEasy @ultimike Monday, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Pimping Your Site Michael Anello DrupalEasy @ultimike Monday, February 14, 2011 Awesome modules to enhance your site. Monday, February 14, 2011 ImageCache http://www.drupal.org/project/imagecache Monday, February 14, 2011 Now part of
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ImageCache
http://www.drupal.org/project/imagecache
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Now part of Drupal 7 - called “Image Styles” Allows site admin to define preset image manipulations scale/crop/rotate/etc...
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Pathauto
http://www.drupal.org/project/pathauto
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Automatically generates path aliases for your content Great for usability and SEO
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Pathauto
http://www.drupal.org/project/pathauto example.com/node/1342 vs. example.com/why-pathauto-rocks example.com/user/764 vs. example.com/user/mike
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Automatically generates path aliases for your content Great for usability and SEO Global redirect
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404 Navigation
http://www.drupal.org/project/navigation404
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404 is the standard http code for “page not found” Drupal turns ofg primary and secondary links on 404 pages by default This module turns them back on to allow you to provide users someplace to go No configuration necessary - nothing to see
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Without 404 Navigation With 404 Navigation
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Can you spot the difgerence? Be sure to clear cache after enabling.
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Backup and Migrate
http://www.drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
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Must-have on all sites. No excuses.
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Module Filter
http://www.drupal.org/project/module_filter
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Tame your modules page Filter by category and/or name
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Administration Menu
http://www.drupal.org/project/admin_menu
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“Adjust top margin” setting not yet working - http://drupal.org/node/801526
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SEO Modules
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Search Engine Optimization
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- Global Redirect (http://www.drupal.org/
project/globalredirect)
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Pathauto - already talked about! Global Redirect - one URL per node Page Title - granular control over page titles XML sitemap - creates an industry-standard XML sitemap for search engines SEO Compliance Checker - provides SEO feedback on a per-node basis SEO modules not yet available: SEO Checklist, MetaTags
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- Page Title (http://www.drupal.org/project/
page_title)
- Global Redirect (http://www.drupal.org/
project/globalredirect)
Monday, February 14, 2011
Pathauto - already talked about! Global Redirect - one URL per node Page Title - granular control over page titles XML sitemap - creates an industry-standard XML sitemap for search engines SEO Compliance Checker - provides SEO feedback on a per-node basis SEO modules not yet available: SEO Checklist, MetaTags
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- Page Title (http://www.drupal.org/project/
page_title)
- XML sitemap (http://www.drupal.org/
project/xmlsitemap)
- Global Redirect (http://www.drupal.org/
project/globalredirect)
Monday, February 14, 2011
Pathauto - already talked about! Global Redirect - one URL per node Page Title - granular control over page titles XML sitemap - creates an industry-standard XML sitemap for search engines SEO Compliance Checker - provides SEO feedback on a per-node basis SEO modules not yet available: SEO Checklist, MetaTags
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- Page Title (http://www.drupal.org/project/
page_title)
- XML sitemap (http://www.drupal.org/
project/xmlsitemap)
- SEO Compliance Checker - http://
www.drupal.org/project/seo_checker)
- Global Redirect (http://www.drupal.org/
project/globalredirect)
Monday, February 14, 2011
Pathauto - already talked about! Global Redirect - one URL per node Page Title - granular control over page titles XML sitemap - creates an industry-standard XML sitemap for search engines SEO Compliance Checker - provides SEO feedback on a per-node basis SEO modules not yet available: SEO Checklist, MetaTags
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Dashboard
(it’s part of Drupal 7 core!)
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Customize it to suit your admin needs.
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Create/add your own blocks (from other modules or Views) Customize Shortcut bar links (“User Perms”) - multiple set support Each admin user can choose which set of shortcut links to use!
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Demo? Questions?
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What do you want to see more of?