Today I needed to install PHP7-fpm while keeping the default PHP5.5-fpm installed on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

In order to alter a menu item that is provided by a module/system, you can use hook_preprocess_menu__MENUNAME() (Since hook_menu_alter() no longer exists). In my instance, I need to change the system provided 'Logout' link to read 'Log Out'.

I needed to redirect the user register form based on a role that the user wanted to apply for.

I stumbled across this solution to add attributes to the read more links of a node.

/**
 * Implements template_preprocess_links()
 */
function MYTHEME_preprocess_links(&$variables) {
  $variables['links']['node-readmore']['link']['#options'][

Need to get out of the Drush mindset and into the Composer mindset when building new Drupal 8 projects. Some useful links that will help explain the process: - https://www.lullabot.com/articles/goodbye-drush-make-hello-composer - https://glamanate.com/blog/managing-your-drupal-project-composer

I was trying to theme a specific vocabulary and a specific view mode and the suggestions, by default, didn't allow for this.

I was working on a new Drupal 8 site and had a new geolocation view setup to show locations on a Google map. Everything was working well, then I decided I wanted to add a new field to the node and include that field in the view. After adding the field to the view, I decided against using it and deleted the field from the node (before removing it from the view). This, in turn, deleted the entire view, which cost me a days worth of work!

Today I needed to add a custom textfield to the 'customer information' pane in Ubercart. After much searching, I wasn't able to find any modules that would allow this to happen, so I wrote my own. I found this article, which gave me the starting block (as it was written for Drupal 6 I believe). 1.

We had to install a new WordPress site onto an old MySQL server and received the following error on import: In order to fix, we needed to change the collation of the sql file.