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Configure an awesome WYSIWYG content editor in Drupal 7 with TinyMCE or CKEditor

18 September 2011

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In Drupal, there are actually a number of ways to add a WYSIWYG editor to a text area. The new “Drupal way”, used on over 150,000 Drupal sites and arguably not so “new” anymore, is to use the Wysiwyg integration module, which has support for several of the editor libraries. I would personally suggest using it, if your needs can be met by it, since it's becoming more and more powerful and offers a fair bit of flexibility to easily change the configuration or editor used. That said, there may still be reason, in Drupal 7, to use one of the single-library integration modules, such as the still-popular CKEditor project. The TinyMCE integration module development has already been abandoned in favor of Wysiwyg, but it's good to have alternatives. Note: In this post, we assume you already know your way around Text formats. Text format configuration can be one of the most tricky parts of properly setting up your WYSIWYG experience, so if you don't already feel you know your way around this common stumbling block, be sure to read our recent post about Text formats / Text filters, too. This article is a companion-post to that one, but it also includes some degree of overlap, since when we turn on the Lightbox and Image Resize Filter modules, we have new filters we'll want to use in some text formats and we will want to pay attention to the order in which they are applied, so we will briefly revisit this topic here.

Cocomore to host next Frankfurt-region Drupal Meetup in October

15 September 2011

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If Frankfurt isn't too far for you to drive, you can mark your calendars (and sign up!) for next month's Drupal Meetup, to be held here at Cocomore's main offices. For over two years now, the Frankfurt area has had a "Drupal Stammtisch", where people from the local Drupal community have enjoyed an informal monthly gathering at KP21, a nice little bar/restaurant on the west side of Frankfurt every second Thursday of the month.

DrupalCon London is over… Long live DrupalCon London! (Watch DrupalCon London videos online for free!)

31 August 2011

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DrupalCon

As a Drupal enthusiast working to learn good module coding skills, as well as someone interested in UX, the Drupal community, as well as keep up on general "builder" and admin developments, I'm very happy to see that I can view some of the sessions I had to miss when I was in London. With so many tracks taking place simultaneously in such a large, spread-out venue, it meant there are a number of presentations I wished I'd seen. Now I can watch them, free of charge on BitTV.

DrupalCon Sprints and final thoughts and memories of the recent DrupalCon London

30 August 2011

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Last Friday, the 26th of August, was the final day of DrupalCon London. After all the sessions were over on Thursday and we heard the closing plenary in the Fairfield Halls Concert Hall, where representatives of DrupalCon and the Florian Loretan announced that Munich would be the location of next year's European DrupalCon, there was still work to be done. So hundreds of developers, themers, and documentation maintainers gathered to work on "Sprints" for their various projects.

File this under "things which make you say 'hmmmm...' "

29 August 2011

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Sometimes, when troubleshooting a Drupal issue on a site, it's best to determine how much time you are willing to spend on fully solving an issue and be willing to accept a reasonable compromise. We encountered such a situation recently with a rather odd issue: If an authenticated user attempted to post a comment on any of the German blog posts here, they were unable to complete the operation since the "save" button was missing ("preview before save" was required) and for some odd reason, "preview" was not working for admin or other authenticated user roles.

DrupalCon London update - Nate Haug's Form Builder module: promising new developments

25 August 2011

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I've just sat down here at the DrupalCon for An Introduction to Form Builder - A New Interface for Fields, Nate Haug's session about Form Builder, an exciting new module for rapid development of Webforms. And the session is packed!

Cocomore designed the logos for DrupalCon Munich, 2012

25 August 2011

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By the time this post is published, you may have heard that the European DrupalCon 2012 will be held in Munich. Shortly before DrupalCon London, where announcements for DrupalCon Munich were planned, DrupalCon Inc asked if Cocomore could create the overall design and coordinate production of about 150 deliverables, such as t-shirts, posters, signs, and stickers for next year's DrupalCon Munich. Excited that the next European DrupalCon will be held in Germany, we happily agreed. But it didn't leave us much time.

DrupalCon update: Socializing with the Drupal Community

24 August 2011

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What many might not know is that the Drupal community is a group of people who not only write great code and build awesome websites, but also knows how to let down their hair and have a good time.

First report from DrupalCon London

23 August 2011

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DrupalCon

DrupalCon London has just started and the keynote is underway; this is Dries Buytaert's "State of Drupal" address. Some of the leading news:

Planning for DrupalCon

18 August 2011

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DrupalCon is coming! In only 10 days, four of us "Cocomories" will be flying to London for the conference (and, by the way, we'll be writing regular blog posts from London, so keep your eyes here for updates). Now is a good time to consider what our priorities are for that time... with so many interesting-sounding sessions scheduled, it isn't easy to choose which ones to attend.