Drupal

I wanted to add an emoji to a comment I just made on my last post, and I wanted something more than the old-style :) emoticon which I have used for (mumble) years. A quick Google told me about the ckeditor_emoji module for Dupal, with a comment by Jeff Geerling of all people (A YouTuber I occasionally watch, who has contributed many Ansible modules I regularly use), to make sure that your Drupal database supports the "utf8mb4" encoding.

While working on another article, I finally hit the point where I really REALLY wanted to put smaller images in the overall article view, but to be able to click on the image and have the image show up full-sized. Such is the pain-point of including screenshots in an article. So, I did some checking, and found the Colorbox plugin.

I just spent the day (and then some) upgrading both the development version of this site and this site, and it has not been a fun upgrade. Part of the problem was that I had to switch themes, as the d8_blog_theme has apparently stopped being maintained. But thanks to my friend Dave, who does Drupal professionally, he cloned the repo and did some fixes in addition to making it compatible with Drupal 11.

One of the driving ideas in everything I do is the principle of "Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY). While primarily a software development principle, I also apply it to tasks I perform.

One of the problems I had when I was copying content from my old WordPress site to the Drupal site was that while I could set the authoring date, I could not get that date applied uniformly throughout each article. Only the created date was being set, and the updated date on the article was showing when I did the copy/paste. But, a pointer and a bit of research, and I figured out how to fix this with a PHP script and drush scr. And I even fixed the dates on comments as well.

Lots of things yet to do, but welcome to my drupal site. I just finished copying/pasting my old posts from my old WordPress site to this site by hand. Thank goodness there were only 31 and not more, as it took me the entire morning to do this!!!