In this lesson we cover downloading and installing the WYSIWYG module. We show the relationship between the WYSIWYG editor and Drupal Text Formats. We go over the basic settings of the WYSIWYG module, how to download and install an editor, and configurations necessary in Text Formats to make things work properly.
Use this handbook page on Drupal.org to determine which version of TinyMCE is supported with CKEditor: Editors.
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I'm always asked about Drupal: "Where is the editor?" Well, this series is going to answer that and teach you everything you need to know about WYSIWYG.
I’ll cover the WYSIWYG module and other modules that allow us to bring media, especially images, into our content. I'll cover best practices for using a WYSIWYG module, how you can use other modules, and various methods of getting images into your text areas with WYSIWYG or with just an image field, and I'll explain the differences among various methods.
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WYSIWYG and Media Management
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This lesson covers all the updates/differences in the latest 2.x version versus other Drupal 7 releases. The new 2.x version of Display Suite is still in active development at the time that this video was published, but we want to make sure you know the changes that are coming when the new version is finally released. This video is very important to view if you are using Display Suite version 2 for the first time and have watched other videos in this series. It covers UI changes/updates as well as feature differences.
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In this lesson we cover how all over the configurations we have learned using Display Suite are able to be exported to code. This video shows how to do this using CTool but can also be done with Features as well.
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In this lesson we cover another "extra" of Display Suite, Views Displays. This basically allows you to take over a view template file and use Display Suite to layout your views.
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In this lesson we cover several extra options provided by the included "Extras" module with display suite. We will show how turning on the Contextual Links extra makes it easier to edit a layout when viewing an entity that is using it. We also look at the Page Title extra that allows you to hide/show the title for a particular layout. Finally we discuss a very powerful feature that allows you to have an option of an end user to select between different view modes.
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Region to Block
FreeIn this lesson we learn how you can take a display region and create a block out of it to be placed in Drupal core's block system.
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Drupalcon Munich and Community Love
Blog postThe Drupalize.Me team is excited to be going to Germany in just two weeks, for DrupalCon Munich. DrupalCon is always an amazing event with thousands of Drupalers sharing ideas, having fun, and helping to make Drupal even better, both as software and as a community. For our part, we will be involved in several sessions, as well as doing everything we can to make the sprint day successful by providing free training on community tools. What is a "sprint day" you ask? Well let me explain what's going on and why we're so excited.
Field Templates
FreeIn this lesson we cover how you can do some powerful things with Display Suite in regards to field templates. Using the Display Suite GUI there are lots of configurations and offerings to get the markup just the way you want.
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In this lesson we cover using the search display portion of Display Suite. This allows you to have a custom layout for your search results as well as your user search results. Display Suite offers lots of functionality here that you just can't get with a core configuration of search.
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In this lesson we cover how one can use view modes and display suite to allow multiple options of layouts for content display. This allows a user to have a different layout of the same content for different scenarios of the site. Combining this with views and you can start to see the power of display suite in action.
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Community Tools Resources
Blog postOur CapitalCamp workshop is all about getting people up to speed with various community tools. We're going to spend three hours walking through the basic things you need to get geared up, and while we're stoked to be able to do this live in DC at the camp, we figured we could also share the resources we're using for others out there who'd like to do this as well. Each session begins with a short, simple, 15-minute presentation, and then we move into demonstration and hands-on work.
Broken Feeds and Spaces in Your Code
Blog postIf you receive our newsletter, you may have noticed that you recently got a HUGE list of posts we've written recently. Well, except that they weren't all really that recent — some of those we two months old, and every week in between. Our regular newsletter is sent out automatically based on our RSS feed, and it turns out that our RSS feed was broken. Once we tracked it all down and got it fixed, all of the posts that had never gotten queued up for the newsletter shot out in one big go. Sorry about that. Aside from the crazy long newsletter though, I thought I'd share how I got this sorted out, because this is the kind of problem that can happen to anyone, and it is really annoying to track down.
Display Suite for Drupal 7
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Display Suite is a module that controls the display of your notes, users, comments, and any entity that's available in your system.
In this video, I will cover the installation of the module and some quick overview of all the menu items that will be made available if you install Display Suite, through the three modules that are its components: Display Suite, Extras, and Search Display.
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In this lesson we cover the basics of using Display Suite to modify the layout of a particular content type. We cover all the potential templates, adding classes to regions, and lots of configurations to set to taylor the layout to your needs. We also discuss how you can create your own template files and layouts for your own customizations.
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Display Suite Fields
FreeIn this lesson we cover adding different type of custom fields to your layout using Display Suite. From adding a custom code field, blocks, to dynamic fields, each of these can be moved around your layout and replicated/modified across different display modes.
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Capitalcamp Workshop on Community Tools
Blog postI'm very excited to be headed to Washington, DC next week to take part in CapitalCamp. We're doing a new kind of workshop. It is a free, three-hour workshop on getting up to speed with the Drupal community tools. Kyle and I are going to talk about the tools we have, why they are useful to you even if you don't want to contribute, and then get hands-on with actually using these things. It's gonna be a blast!
This week we are continuing the free Drupal Ladder series with two more steps on the ladder. In the first video in the series we got a local Drupal site set up. In these two videos we move on to the two most important community tools for jumping in: Git and the Drupal.org issue queue.