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Any way to find out how many registered users have accessed the site within a given time?
Our circulation director is trying to find out if we can count registered users on our site towards our "subscriber" numbers. One of the things he wants to know is how many registered users logged into the site within a certain period of time.
I can use the "last login" or "last access" information in Views ... if I look at the View at the end of the month in question.
But if, for example, I wanted to know how many registered users logged into the site last month (September), I'm out of luck.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Read morePower to Communicate for Everyone: Drupal at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston
A proposal for powerful communication with equal access – please vote (requires fairly safe and painless registration).
See a collection of many Drupal-related presentations at the National Conference for Media Reform, which is coming to Boston April 8-10, 2011!
Read moreOpenBlock Geolocation Hack-a-thon at MIT Media Lab
MIT and Hacks/Hackers are hosting an OpenBlock hack-a-thon Oct. 30 at noon. Why should local Drupalists care?
OpenBlock by itself is an interesting news aggregator, but it's various components, which can be de-coupled, could be very cool, doing everything from auto-geotagging content, very customizable mapping, and much more. Tapping into these components could help a lot of Drupal sites I've seen.
RSVP here for the meetup:
http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/calendar/15033657/
Largest network of news sites using Drupal?
I'm on a reconnaissance mission investigating open source CMS options. Could anyone point me in the direction of the largest multi-site news implementation? I'm interested in the volume of concurrent sites and also the overall metrics (users, pages viewed). We have a home grown solution at the moment but it is in "need of modernisation".
Read moreSmall Newspaper Online Ad Sales
I'm the IT support guy for a small town newspaper. The newspapers' in-house graphics designer and I have moved the papers web site to Drupal, and actually got some content from the print edition on-line which is a big improvement from what was there before. Our problem isn't technical as much as social. The powers that be don't really "get" the web and feel that the site should look like the placemat at the local diner --All ads in your face all the time. They have a modern site with content, and a good design that includes plenty of space for ad inventory.
Read moreBest approach to increase page load in OP
This is nothing new but I am just curious is somebody could suggest how to make the default OP installation speed up. In my default installation all the pages take too long to load. I am just working in a local server so I am afraid what is going to happen when i will go live.
Any tips?
Thanks,
Leo
Read moreViews attachments with a taxonomy:term argument
I recently watched the screencast "Views Demystified: part 2" by rainbreaw. In the screencast, she shows an amazing recipe site using views attachment using a taxonomy: term argument.
That functionality is perfect, except that when I click on the taxonomy term, it replaces the page with the nodes and the taxonomy terms disappear. I need the taxonomy terms to stay on the page as a persistent list (like she has it on her site).
Can someone help me with this?
Thank you,
Joe
VoiceBox Alpha Release
Hello, all,
We have an alpha release ready of VoiceBox, our Knight Drupal Initiative project -
The project is a community media/feed aggregator/news space/conversation space. A high level run down of the featureset includes:
- Customizable user profiles;
- Discussions with embedded images, audio, and video;
- Publishing pictures, audio, and video via mobile devices and/or email;
- Content aggregation via rss;
Developing app and app-friendly drupal feed
So, iPhone has been all the rage for a while, and last spring the iPad was launched. Here in Sweden, we won't get the iPad until November - but that'll be just in time for the holiday shopping. Besides, by then we will get a ton of Android tablets too.
Which begs the question: Has anybody around already made a solution for interfacing Drupal with an iApp? If not, would y'all be interested if we keep it generic and customizable?
Read moreBest News-Oriented Profile?
I'm looking for suggestions on what might be the best Drupal profile for a news site. I'd like something between the complexity of OpenPress and the simplicity of ProsePoint. Any contenders?
Read moreURL redirect for 3rd party pages and search issue
We are using a 3rd party service to host some of our online contests and I have those wrapped in our layout simply by placing a piece of text in the body of a page. The 3rd party service then accesses the page's url for branding.
Then, instead of using the contest engine URL, I have the contest page redirected to something more palatable (www.scvbj.com/2010-scv-top-51).
My problem occurs when people attempt to search for the contest from within the site. When they search for "top 51", they are presented with a link that takes them to the blank page that is used to wrap the contest.
Read moreD7 Newspaper Base?
I'm looking to build (not from the ground-up, but with a solid framework) an online newspaper. Since D7 is right around the corner (at least the beta) I'd like to build it on the latest Drupal version. I first tried The Morning After dev and it just goes blank (I have the Zen dev, but don't see how to add the base theme to the D7 info file.) It'd be great to have a D7 zenophile, module, but that doesn't seem to exist.
What is a good D7 base to build a theme with the two sidebars on the right? Thanks.
Read moreCleaning up after spammers
If you allow public registration for commenting and/or blogging, it won't be long before you discover spammers abusing your system.
Tools like Mollom help a lot, but they won't catch everything. You need to check your registrations at least every morning and clean up the mess. If you let it get out of control, your site will become a favorite for SEO spammers, many of whom are paid a piece rate for posting links on websites.
Read moreFree, open course for news-interested "hackers"
Mozilla, Hacks/Hackers, Medill School at Northwestern University, and The Media Consortium are collaborating to run a free online course for journalists and programmers on the Peer-to-peer University platform. This is an experimental six-week course exploring the ways that technology is changing news production and how professional journalists & programmers can work together to innovate around these changes. Here's the tentative course outline:
- The fundamentals of journalism and coding
- Project management
- Edit it. Fork it. The art of collaboration and journalism
- Big Ugly Datasets For Thumb-Fingered Journalists
- Maps. Maps. Everywhere
- Data journalism and government
You can read more here: http://p2pu.org/general/open-journalism-open-web
We are specifically looking for a few more programmers with an interest in learning more about journalism to join the course, as we're heavy on "hacks" and light on "hackers" at the moment. If you're interested, contact me directly here: http://p2pu.org/users/phillipadsmith and let me know a bit about yourself, your experience, what you might contribute to the course, and what time zone you're in.
Read moreDrupal distributions for newspapers and magazines: OpenPublish, ProsePoint...
I'm collecting some info about distributions including Drupal and a selection of modules for newspapers and magazines. Examples are OpenPublish (project), ProsePoint, and the Innovation News installation profile.
Read moreOpenPublish Webinar: Thursday September 9
Join us for a Free Webinar on OpenPublish – A Solution for the Publishing Industry
Online publishers, editors and producers will want to register for an upcoming Webinar: OpenPublish – A Solution for the Publishing Industry, which takes place on Thursday, September 9, 2010, from 1 - 2 pm ET.
Read moreExport Drupal NewsML ?
Hi,
We need to export content from one of our website at Le Figaro to different format. I found some useful modules (but no tested).
- http://drupal.org/project/importexportapi
- http://drupal.org/project/googlenews
- http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap
- http://drupal.org/project/nitf_views
Do you know about them ?
I can't find any module in Drupal about NewsML : http://www.iptc.org/std/NAR/1.5/documentation/IPTC-G2-Implementation-Gui...
I have seen that some projects are running but no one seems to be finished.
Read moreNew York Times and the Semantic Web
This really is not much of a deceleration.
The New York Times now uses Open Graph as a doc type. http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/
I can't imagine getting editors of an online newspaper to submit this much data as outlined in the New York Times Annotated Corpus Overview. http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/docs/LDC2008T19/new_york_times_annotate...
Read moreSelling online content organized by issues
Hi there.
After posting on the support forum and on the Ubercart website, I beleive this is the right place to discuss my problem.
We are a magazine that comes out "hand made" in a PDF format. For the time being, we only deliver to subscribers by email.
I’m trying to develop our web site using Drupal and Ubercart. A part of our content is free and can be seen by anonymous users. The other part is not free.
We are organizing our online content by issues just like the way it’s done on the physical support: issue_1, issue_2 .. etc. For this we use taxonomy.
Read moreApparently some process ran on my site that caused our hosting server to crash???
I wanted to see if one of you hosting experts could offer your thoughts on something that happened this morning.
I received a call from my hosting provider saying that some process that ran on my site caused their server to crash. The site is currently not being hosted on a VPS, just a shared server (that may change later). I have no clue what that process could have been. I didn't even do much of anything on the site this morning... I edited a blog.
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