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The Week in Drupal: December 17, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Prickly pear will bloom

Drupal News

Drupal 6.20 Released - No security issues in this one. Only bug fixes as described in the release notes.

Drupal 7 Release Parties - Find your nearest one with this site.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Synchronize one Drupal site with another using Drush

Three Tips to Make Your jQuery Selectors Faster

The Week in Drupal: December 3, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Frozen Drops On A Daisy

Drupal News

Drupal 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is Out!

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

How to Share Your User Sessions Between Desktop and Mobile Versions of Your Site - Useful tip. Also could be helpful for a bare domain and it's "www.", though you should never let both of those be accessible. 

How to Import Files into Drupal CCK Fields

At last night's Ann Arbor Drupal Meetup, a question was raised about how to write an import script to create Drupal nodes that include a Filefield CCK field. Filefields and Imagefields present a particular problem for import because the file must be stored into the Drupal files table before you can save them to the node. In the discussion that followed, it seemed that several of us at the meeting had developed our own ways to do this in the past for various reasons. So, I thought I would post a couple solutions for others who need to do this.

The Week in Drupal: November 26, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Thanksgiving at the Trolls

Drupal News

Google Code-In for Drupal Announced - Opportunities for high school students to work on Drupal projects. 

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Drupal Game for Your Next Drupal Meetup - Teams are given three modules and must make a site that combines them, Food Network competition style.

Ten Ways to Make Your Drupal Website More Social

Widespread SEO Problems with Drupal’s Taxonomy Module

This week I’ve been working on fixing some duplicate content problems on our site coming from the Site Map module. In doing so, it’s become obvious that the design of Drupal’s taxonomy module makes it very easy to accidentally end up with Google indexing multiple copies of your term pages. This SEO problem isn’t just happening to Drupal rookies. Even top Drupal firms are screwing this up. Take a look at some examples from prominent Drupal company websites:

[Update: Most of these have now been fixed, so the results now are lower than I state. But they originally were correct.]

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