Drupal Newbie

I have a problem with Views and Taxonomy Tags

2008-06-14T22:42:00.003+10:00

On my new Drupal 6.x site, http://leveragethesecret.com

When you click on a "tag" in the content, you get a 404 error.

If I disable the "Views" module, everything works fine again.

I need to either
1) find an alternative to Views to show the rest of my content, or
2) fix the problem in "Views" that's causing it.

To "re-enact" my problem, head to:
http://leveragethesecret.com/node/170
Click on any tag, and you will see what I get.

However, if I disable views, it works perfectly, but I lose all my Views content..
- My Daily Checklist
- Science of Getting Rich blocks
etc

Any ideas on an alternative to views that will achieve the same thing?

As views is in Beta, and the "New" 6.x-2.0-beta4 Beta release was only released yesterday, and both the Previous release and yesterday's release causes the same problem.. it will be a few months til the next "beta" release.

I've already tried clearing the Views Cache. Too new to know what else to try?

Link to a Random Blog Post in a Sidebar Block

2008-06-05T23:30:00.001+10:00

Even though I'm now using Drupal 6, and this was created for Drupal 4.7, this is the ONLY post that helped me create a random post in a block, albeit 3 hours later but still.. I need to keep this somewhere :)

1. create a new view in administer » views » add tab.

2. give it a name. I called mine "Random".

3. click the "Block" section heading to get its settings.

4. enable "Provide block"

5. choose a "View type". I went with "List View" so that I could choose which fields display in the block.

6. type in a title. This will be the title of the block. In this example I used "Random" as well.

7. type in a number for the amount of nodes you want to display in the block. You can use 1 (number one) if you like.

8. click the "Fields" section heading to get its settings.

9. add the fields you want. I chose just "Node: Title" since I wanted just links to the blog posts, not the text.

10. click the "Filters" section heading to get its settings.

11. select "Node: Type" and click "Add Filter"

12. choose the content type(s) you want to appear in the block. In this example, I chose the 'blog' type.

13. select "Node: Published" and click "Add Filter". (I keep forgetting this one, but it's important, since you probably don't want to display unpublished nodes.

14. click the "Sort criteria" section heading to get its settings.

15. select "Random" and click "Add criteria".

16. click "Save"

17. click administer » blocks and enable the block you titled in step #6.

Drupal PathAuto

2007-11-17T11:35:00.000+11:00

Drupal can name the URLs for you automatically with the helo of Pathauto module . To see more visit DrupalDude.com

Make sure you have clean urls turned on.
Then PathAuto can automatically create friendly names (clean urls) for your urls.

How to turn on Friendly Names (Clean URLs):

Hide Time/Date Stamp on Articles

2007-11-17T11:16:00.000+11:00

Hiding Post information in Drupal from within Themes DrupalDude.com

Drupal Taxonomy / Categories

2007-11-17T11:02:00.000+11:00

In this video you will see learn how to enable vocabulary and tag an image content to be retrieved in different ways, from YouTube member: seoecom

Drupal PoorMansCron

2007-11-17T10:59:00.000+11:00

Drupal needs Cron jobs run to work properly. What happens if you can't run them? You use the Poormanscron module. From YouTube member: drupaldude
He has more videos at: DrupalDude.com

Drupal Image Content Types

2007-11-17T10:56:00.000+11:00

In this video you will see how to upload image content types on your Drupal CMS system, from YouTube member: Seoecom

Adjusting the Length of Posts using Drupal

2007-11-17T10:49:00.000+11:00

This video shows how you can adjust the length of the trimmed posts using Drupal, from YouTube member: Danwassink
He has more videos at: DrupalDude.com

Adding YouTube Videos to Drupal Blog

2007-11-17T10:43:00.001+11:00

Found these videos on youtube for adding videos to your Drupal blogs:

In this video you will learn how to add YouTube video contents to your blog and use trackbacks, from YouTube member SEOCAM

In this video, you will learn how to use video module in drupal, from YouTube member Bala016
He has more videos at: www.pointerblog.com

Drupal Site Initial Security Admin Setup

2007-11-17T10:37:00.000+11:00

In this video you will see how to
* Create a new role
* Manage the privileges of this role
* Change the account creation settings for your site
* Create a new user account and assign it to a role.

Primary Menu Primary Links - STUCK

2007-11-17T10:30:00.000+11:00

Now I want to add my Primary Menu and I've hit my first snag.
It asks for Title | Description | Path | Parent Item
But I have no idea where to find the path.

I want an "Articles" title, and I have managed to create "Article" nodes, and "Categories", but finding out how to make them available to the public is hurting my brain.

It looks like I can get the "Path" from "URL aliases", but I must've stuffed up when organising my "Categories" because I can't find an "Articles" path for all Articles, only for all the sub-terms.

And so this is a valid path:
http://www.how-to-train-your-cat.com/social/category/articles/behaviour

But this will bring up page not found:
http://www.how-to-train-your-cat.com/social/category/articles/

I've had enough of this for today.

Did find an YouTube Video on the Primary Links today but he already knew his path.

Where to upload Modules & Themes

2007-11-17T10:12:00.001+11:00

I don't want to stuff up my main site while I'm learning Drupal, I want the new site to be clean, contain no modules that are buggy, and have everything in the right place because the new site is going to be massive, with the intention of having millions of visitors and hundreds of thousands of members, so if I "stuff it up", it could get expensive if I have to start-over.

So I am using one of my test sites How To Train Your Cat as my mistake-bed, as it can be easily deleted.

The first thing I learnt while using the test site on my local computer (using XAMPP) to install Apache, MySQL & PHP, is that I had been uploading Modules & Themes to the wrong directory - I hadn't read the documentation and had been mixing them with the core modules & themes, apparantly not a great idea.

So all the custom modules & themes need to be uploaded to the "Sites" -> "All" directory, and when I do the main site, need to make sure I create folders to categorize them ie:

Advertising_Modules
Comments_Chat_Modules
Content_Views_Modules
Events_OG_Groups_Modules
Images_Gallery_Modules
Location_Modules
Node_Modules
Payment_Modules
Profile_Modules
SEO_Modules
Server_Background_Modules
Site_Presentation_Modules
Site_Testing_Modules
User_Admin_Modules
etc.

The modules are still found by Drupal when you categorize them, and when you're looking at hundreds of modules, this would've been a godsend. Will do this on the main site.

This video shows you where you should install Drupal Module, from YouTube member: danwassink. He has more videos at: www.drupaldude.com

This video you will see how to install a new theme, from YouTube member: SeoeCom