Articles
Drupalgive
The new Autocreate Access module
When a client has a need or idea that other people might benefit from, it's a great opportunity to contribute a module back to the community. I recently created the new Autocreate Access module to solve a problem on a project where Drupal's autocomplete tagging widget for…Read article →ComputerMinds are diversifying
The last year has highlighted to us all how important it is for the global community to come together and solve problems. We rate ourselves highly at ComputerMinds, and figure it's time to share and stretch our abilities to the full. So I'm here on this special day to announce…Read article →Our 12 month contribution challenge so far
So we challenged ourselves to contribute back to the Drupal community this year. How are we doing? Here's a simple update on what each of us has done so far. Hopefully we'll see other ComputerMinds team members join this list by the end of the year.Read article →12 month contrib challenge: XML sitemap
We've been busy recently, but that doesn't stop us at ComputerMinds contributing back to the Drupal community! For our latest multilingual website, we needed an XML sitemap with alternate links and hreflang attributes. This site uses separate domains for each language - for…Read article →Sponsor work to improve Drupal for us all
We love making great websites, standing on the shoulders of the giants that have gone before us to make Drupal what it is today. Thousands of working hours from fantastic people around the world have gone into producing this digital experience platform. Many of those gave…Read article →New Language Hierarchy release for Drupal 8
Do you want to reach more markets and people? Do you want to tailor your content for clients from a range of locations around the world, without having to manage every single translation? Then the Language Hierarchy project could be for you! I wrote a while ago about how this…Read article →Aegir is ten!
Ten years ago today Adrian Rossouw committed the first code for the Aegir project. ComputerMinds have been involved in Aegir for many of those years, particularly one of our senior developers: Steven Jones. We asked him some questions about it to mark the occasion.Read article →Making an accurate, responsive node preview for Drupal 7
It's a well known fact that a large proportion of sites turn off the node preview button. It just doesn't work well. Your unsaved changes don't show and the admin theme is used in place of your site theme - not helpful.Read article →Language Hierarchy: More power and flexibility without extra effort
Several of our recent projects have involved setting up languages that feel like 'child' languages of other languages, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it's for marketing, so that content can be overridden for markets using a specific currency, other times it's to target a…Read article →Saving the web with responsible websites
TL;DR: If the internet reflects society, what does your content say about you? Having flexible and accessible content will allow you to adapt to how people consume your content.Read article →ComputerMinds sponsor Drupalcamp Bristol 2015
We are really excited to be a gold sponsor for the Bristol Drupalcamp. The event takes place on the 3rd and 4th of July and we will hopefully be bringing some super exciting drupal powered remote control cars - watch this space!Read article →Place blocks inside your content with EBA
Previously on this website I have written about rendering blocks programmatically and adding things to content to be managed alongside fields. It's time to combine the two! On many projects, we find ourselves needing to render a block consistently across all content of a…Read article →You should use Entity cache
If you have a Drupal 7 site, then you should be using the Entity cache module, here's why:Read article →Automated deployments using Aegir
There are a few write-ups about using Aegir to automate your deployment process notably one from Mig5: Zero-touch Drupal deployment with Jenkins, Aegir, Git, Fabric and Drush. I recently wanted to set this up for our own project, but felt like I could make some improvements.Read article →Custom add another
Drupal 7 fields are great, but using multiple valued fields and field collection you can quickly reach the point of having a form that looks like this:Read article →Drupal Science Camp - The results
Drupal Science Camp was the first Drupalcamp in the UK of 2012. It was wonderfully organised by Rachel Lawson and Euan Bayliss at a magnificent venue provided free of charge by Napp Pharmaceuticals Limited.Read article →Using the Drupal overlay for non-admin paths
Drupal 7 ships with a module called 'Overlay', it is installed by the standard install profile and actually is pretty great for most people. If you don't know what I'm talking about then, it's this:Read article →Drupal Science Camp - 21st & 22nd January - Cambridge (UK)
If you are free on the weekend of the 21st and 22nd and are anywhere near Cambridge (the UK one!) then make your way to the Drupal Science Camp. The details on their website are a little sparse so far, but it's shaping up to be an interesting little event - plus ComputerMinds…Read article →ComputerMinds become Silver sponsors of DrupalCon London
We are all very excited about DrupalCon coming to London (well London-ish - http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/venue ) - and now that we are Silver sponsors we are literally jumping for joy ... now we just need to think of something to put on our very own exhibitor table ...Read article →Aegir tasks daemon
Aegir is a very clever hosting system for Drupal that sites and provisions them on various servers and does lots of clever things. One of the clever things that it has had for a while is a task queuing system. You can ask Aegir to lots of different things all in one go, and…Read article →CTools Path Access plugin
I made a new Drupal 7 module today... the CTools Path Access plugin. It is a very simple module that provides a CTools access plugin for using the access rules of another path.Read article →Drupal publishing queues
Have you ever wanted to create a 'queue' of content that would be published at a regular interval? I have.Read article →Certified to Rock field
Certified to Rock is a site that allows you to look-up Drupal.org user names, and see their 'certified to rock' score.Read article →Views data exports
Views is the king in Drupal land when it comes to making lists of your data, rightly so, it does a wonderful job of making it easy to choose the data you want to list. It also allows you to render your list in various forms, lists, tables. RSS feeds or even jump menus. So if…Read article →Let's talk
Got a project in mind?
You'll talk to a developer, not a salesperson.