Talking Drupal

In episode #118, we talk with Dan Shure (@dan_shure) about SEO. TOPICS: What is SEO What is an SEO Consultant When to go to an SEO Consultant Organic vs Pay Managing customer questions Snake oil SEO Tools to get started Most common mistakes SEO Tips Recommended resource to people to learn RESOURCES: Screaming Frog SEO Spider - https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ Open Site Explorer - https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/ Ahrefs - https://ahrefs.com/ Majestic - https://majestic.com/ Google webmaster Tools - https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ SEO by the Sea - http://www.seobythesea.com/ Google webmaster blog - https://webmasters.googleblog.com/ Google inside search - http://www.google.com/intl/es419/insidesearch/ Search engine land - http://searchengineland.com/ Search engine watch - https://searchenginewatch.com/ Google webmaster help hangout - https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/office-hours Moz Blog - https://moz.com/blog Evolving SEO - http://www.evolvingseo.com Experts On The Wire: SEO, Content Marketing, Social Media, Growth Hacking & More! - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/experts-on-the-wire/id1093560792 Oomph Job Openings - http://www.oomphinc.com/people MODULE OF THE WEEK: Footnotes http://www.drupal.org/project/footnotes Footnotes module can be used to easily create automatically numbered footnote references into an article or post (such as a reference to a URL). It now supports also TinyMCE and CKEditor via WYSIWYG module. HOSTS: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan GUEST: Dan Shure - www.evolvingseo.com @dan_shure

In episode #117 we talk about using Solr for search on a Drupal website. www.talkingdrupal.com/117 TOPICS: Core search What is Solr How does Solr work Benefits of using Solr Features of Solr MODULES: Search API - https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api Search API Solr Search - https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_solr Search Pages - https://www.drupal.org/node/1255226 Custom Search - https://www.drupal.org/project/custom_search Facet API - https://www.drupal.org/project/facetapi Search API Page - https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_page Search API Autocomplete -https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_autocomplete ApacheSolr - https://www.drupal.org/project/apachesolr RESOURCES: Setting up Solar - https://www.drupal.org/node/1999310 Apache Solr - http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ Rubber Duck Debugging - http://www.rubberduckdebugging.com/ Views Help Text Bug (Patch #36) - https://www.drupal.org/node/339384 Open Solr - https://opensolr.com/ MODULE OF THE WEEK: Multi-Step Registrationwww.drupal.org/project/stepWith Multi-Step Registration you can create multi-step (wizard) user account registration forms. Each step of the wizard can be configured to, optionally, expose one or more Profile2 types. HOSTS: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

In episode #116 we discuss automating the deployment process with Rob Aubin. TOPICS: Deployment process Dev - Staging - Traing - Production Using GIT Strategy for deployment Why automation Automation risks Jenkins and other tools RESOURCES: http://deploybot.comhttps://jenkins-ci.org/https://www.tunnelbear.comhttps://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015/sessions/how-jenkins-can-work-w... MODULE OF THE WEEK: Smart IPwww.drupal.org/project/smart_ipSmart IP identify visitor's geographical location (longitude/latitude), country, region, city and postal code based on the IP address of the user. These information will be stored at session variable ($_SESSION) with array key 'smart_ip' and Drupal $user->data object with array key 'geoip_location' of the user but optionally it can be disabled (by role) at Smart IP admin page. Other modules can use the function smart_ip_get_location($ip_address) that returns an array containing the visitor's ISO 3166 2-character country code, longitude, latitude, region (FIPS), city and postal code. It provides a feature for you to perform your own IP lookup and admin spoofing of an arbitrary IP for testing purposes. HOSTS: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Rob Aubin - www.oomphinc.com @ra8

In episode #115 we talk about Google's AMP (Accelerated Module Pages) and implementation in Drupal with Matthew Tift. http://www.talkingdrupal.com/115 Topic What is AMP? Technical Implementation Show should care about AMP? Drupal AMP Module Resources AMPing with Drupal - https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2016/03/02/amping-up-drupal/ https://assoc.drupal.org/vote2016 https://assoc.drupal.org/drupal-association-board-elections https://www.drupal.org/project/amptheme https://www.lullabot.com/articles/amping-up-drupal Modules AMP module - https://www.drupal.org/project/amp Module of the Week Field UI - api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules!field_ui!field_ui.module/7 Allows administrators to attach custom fields to fieldable types. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Matthew Tift - @matthewtift

In episode #114, we talk about integrating text messaging into your website. www.talkingdrupal.com/114 Topics Use cases for Text Messages What is Twilio? Other Drupal SMS solutions Modules Twilio - https://www.drupal.org/project/twilioViop - https://www.drupal.org/project/voipdrupal Module of the Week Redirect Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/redirect https://www.drupal.org/project/redirect Common API for loading, saving, and deleting redirects. Case-insensitive redirect matching with a hook to allow other modules to narrow-down the candidate redirects. Redirect counter and last used timestamp, with automatic cleanup of inactive redirects. Integration with Drupal's page cache to optimize redirects and performance. Complete individual redirect access API. Views API integration. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

In episode #113 we talk about Drupal 6 End of Life with guest David Snopek. TOPICS: What is End of Life? Drupal Install HistoryThe day after - what does this mean for your Drupal 6Drupal 6 Long Term Support (D6 LTS)Hosting IssuesMoving to Drupal 7 or 8Preparing a customer MODULE OF THE WEEK: Offie Hourswww.drupal.org/project/office_hoursA CCK/Fields module that creates an "office hours" or "opening hours" field. You can set the default weekly office hours for your locations HOSTS: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan David Snopek - @dsnopek

In episode #112 we talk about selling Drupal with Adam Lamagna. Topics Determining Drupal is good fit Dealing with competitor Positioning Drupal as the solution Objections to Drupal Open Source vs Proprietary Dealing with WordPress Drupal 8 pitch Module of the Week Configuration Installer www.drupal.org/project/config_installer The Configuration Installer is a installation profile that takes over the Drupal installer and allows sites to be created from existing configuration. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Adam Lamagna -@ajmatic

In episode #111 we revisit the topic of Views in Drupal. www.talkingdrupal.com Topics Formatters Sorting Filters Views Templates Relationships New in Drupal 8 Modules: Semantic views- https://www.drupal.org/project/semanticviewsDraggable Views - https://www.drupal.org/project/draggableviews Modules of the Week:File Checkerhttps://www.drupal.org/project/file_checkerIn a perfect Drupal world your server file system and its corresponding entries in Drupal's files table are 100% synchronized. But what if parts of your file system have been corrupted due to some disk failure? Or one of your modules messed up your database and files? Or your deploy script went beserk? Well, then this module will help you to monitor and find out which files are out of sync. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

In episode #110 we discuss building a subscription based commerce website. TOPICS: What is a subscription? Credit Cards Controlling Access to content / Feature Drupal Commerce Components RESOURCES: Decoupling Drupal - http://buytaert.net/should-we-decouple-drupal-with-a-client-side-framework MODULE OF THE WEEK: Menu Item Visibility www.drupal.org/project/menu_item_visibility This module exposes configurable and extendable visibility settings for menu links. For example, if you want to create a 'My account' link that points to /user, both anonymous and registered users have access to the /userpath, so both will see the link, even if anonymous users do not technically have an account. Using this module will allow you to only have your 'My account' link visible to registered users, and hide it from anonymous users.The module uses the exact same UI used for block visibility settings for familiarity. HOSTS: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencrossJohn Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozziNic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

In episode #006 of Exploring Drupal 8 we talk about intermediate module development concepts TOPICS: Let's talk Plugins. What is this Dependency Injection idea everyone is talking about? Further exploring. RESOURCES: Stack Starter - http://www.stackstarter.io/ - spincode “talkingdrupal”