15 November 2012
With search data, statistics, cache tables, and log messages Drupal databases can get pretty big, but a lot of the data is disposable. Search data can be reconstructed, caches can be rebuilt, and old log messages can be ignored. So thanks to the help of a colleague Jonathan Webb
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28 June 2012
Following on from my post 'Managing files when moving to multi-site in Drupal 6' where I explained about updated file paths in the files table, and other tables in the database. Here is a handy command to use if you have any hard coded image paths in code.
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25 June 2012
More often than I'd like I see issues where Drupal's cron fails or exceeds the time limit. Here is a handy Drush command which will run all cron hooks on your site and the time it takes to run. This will allow you to see which cron it fails on,
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24 June 2012
One thing I have been doing quite a lot recently on clients sites is merging multiple Drupal 6 installations into a multi-site setup. This is usually quite painless and can be done within an hour or so, the hard bit comes when none of the display, and you realise that
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14 January 2011
Drupal 7 launched just over a week ago, and earlier this week I moved this site over to Drupal 7. Although there are some critical, major and minor bugs to fix on Drupal 7, it's time to start talking about Drupal 8. There has been a lot of talk about
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