Geographic scope
The West Midlands Region is a large area of the United Kingdom that encompasses the cities of: Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent and Wolverhampton (among others).
Our aims
To provide a forum for communication, organising events and encouraging Drupal loveliness. Seriously though, we'll hold regular meet-ups to discuss site building, actually do some site building and maybe have a drink or two.
Recent posts
SSL Certificates - Advice in buying?
I'm currently looking at buying a SSL certificate and attaching to one of my domains. The main reason (along with encryption) is to provide more peace-of-mind for users who will providing their personal data (we are also signed up to data protection).
Can anyone provide any advice as I'm totally new to this, especially in regards to:
- green bar or not (and if not do you think the average Joe will understand the site is SSL)?
- best companies in relation to price and service?
Taxonomy - what technically happens when you delete or change a taxonomy term
What actually happens to a content type's term reference field if you (1) edit/change a taxonomy term or (2) delete a term (considering the taxonomy is part of a live content type)?
I'm wondering as I'm considering giving users the ability to add to taxonomies if the term is not already available. If I'm correct I think if I allow them to add new terms in can add them to (A) a new taxonomy (which easily distinguishes the new terms to check) or (B) to the end of the existing taxonomy (which I ever I choose).
Read moreUltimate Definitive World List? Regions, Cities, Towns - does anyone have one?
Hi
Does anyone out there have a definitive world list of all the countries, their regions, cities and towns etc that they might be able to pass to me?
I've been trying to create my own and its a hell of a task, and there's so much conflicting information.
A full definitive list would be the ideal, but failing that I would easily settle for:
- UK & Ireland
- United States
- Canada
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Germany
- Spain
- France
- Italy
Any help would be greatly appreciated as the Location module just doesn't appear to be definitive.
Thank you
Stephen
Read moreTurn off Error Messages... but keep all others?
Is it possible just to turn-off error messages but show all other messages, particularly showing only the green system messages? The 'Error messages to display' does not appear to allow for this.
Most of you will probably thinking 'why do you need this', but unfortunately due to circumstances I have no other choice at this time but to do this.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Stephen
Read moreWhy is Views (on saving) spitting out a screen of garbage?
Could anyone provide any insight as to why views is spitting out garbage on saving content?
Basically it goes to a white page with loads of garbled text on it.
It appears to save the view but once it renders the garbage page I then have to re-navigate back to views (which is a major headache) to make any changes (and then again when I save its back to square one with garbled text).
See screenshot (which is only part of it).
Thank you
Stephen
Read moreImage upload issue to standard drupal use profile
Hi.
Read moreLive site - fieldsets, selectors, etc - not there or not working? Cannot drag menus either.
Hi, hoping someone can help.
For some reason in my live version of my site, all the collapsable fieldsets (grey boxes) are missing.... they're there (as plain black text, not grey boxes), but they can't be selected, opened or anything, so none of the settings on the page can be changed i.e. if I create content I cannot click or make any revision settings.
Additionally, the select box to select 'all' content in the content section has just disappeared.
Additionally, I cannot drag menus in the menu page, it just freezes.
Read moreMobile Navigation - Working on Local site but not on live (both in Safari)?
If anyone can help with the following it would be greatly appreciated as I'm quickly becoming grey haired over it.
Basically I have a site that's navigation works perfectly on all local versions but has issues when testing the live site on the most of the same browsers (please note all files are identical in terms of those on local and live server).
Read moreViews Table - How to add a horizontal scroll bar?
I'm currently pulling my hair out trying to - with what I thought would be a simple fix - get a horizontal scroll bar to appear within a View's table.
I have a silly example just to see if anyone can help using Firebug or similar, as the production site is not yet available (I could then apply this fix to the real site).
The Views Table appears at http://www.yousayuk.com/page/about-us under the title 'test-3' and just pulls in some random data to demonstrate how the table stretches beyond that which is expected.
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West Midlands August Drupal Meetup
Presentation afternoon
This month we'll be having a presentation and discussion afternoon.
We'll have half an hour for presentations followed by some time for questions and answers and general discussion.
If you would like to present something for 15 minutes then just let me know.
Location
International Institute for Product and Service Innovation (IIPSI), The
University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL.
Getting there
IIPSI is marked as Building Number 27 on the campus map here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/campusmap/. Car Parks 8 and
Best way to test live site without using Maintenance Mode?
Can anyone advise the best way to test a 'live' site without having to go into Maintenance Mode?
Basically I just want to ensure that it doesn't appear on search engines or get listed, and if there is something that is advised it needs to be something that won't be to the detriment of the site indexed/listed when I actually want it to.
For those that might be questioning why I want to do this without using MM is basically to test a Facebook login to see how it works and performs etc.
Thanks
Stephen
Read moreD7 'Aggregate and Compress CSS Files' - live site losing styles???
Hi
Everytime I select 'Aggregate and Compress CSS Files' in D7 Performance settings on my live site I'm instantly losing my styles. However on my local machine this does not happen. Interestingly this only happens on my live site when I have my sub-theme of Bartik selected. If I use the default Bartik theme there is no issue. I've searched Google and found a plethora of possibilities but I still haven't found the solution. If anyone could advise it would greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Stephen
Read morewmdug.org.uk
Last updated by siliconmeadow on Fri, 2013-06-07 08:10
I bought the domain wmdug.org.uk a few months back in a fit of enthusiasm, but the enthusiasm has waned. Since Steven is the supreme potentate of wmdug.org.uk, would he be interested in it? Let me know your preferred IPSTAG and I'll change it to you.
Read moreWest Midlands July Drupal Meetup
Presentation afternoon
This month we'll be having a presentation and discussion afternoon.
We'll have half an hour for presentations followed by some time for questions and answers and general discussion.
If you would like to present something for 15 minutes then just let me know.
Location
International Institute for Product and Service Innovation (IIPSI), The
University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL.
Getting there
IIPSI is marked as Building Number 27 on the campus map here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/campusmap/. Car Parks 8 and
West Midlands June Drupal Meetup
Presentation afternoon
This month we'll be having a presentation and discussion afternoon.
We'll have half an hour for presentations followed by some time for questions and answers and general discussion.
If you would like to present something for 15 minutes then just let me know.
Location
International Institute for Product and Service Innovation (IIPSI), The
University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL.
Getting there
IIPSI is marked as Building Number 27 on the campus map here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/campusmap/. Car Parks 8 and
West Midlands May Drupal Meetup
Presentation afternoon
This month we'll be having a presentation and discussion afternoon.
We'll have half an hour for presentations followed by some time for questions and answers and general discussion.
If you would like to present something for 15 minutes then just let me know.
Location
International Institute for Product and Service Innovation (IIPSI), The
University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL.
Getting there
IIPSI is marked as Building Number 27 on the campus map here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/campusmap/. Car Parks 8 and
Will MySQL Databases work on MariaDB? Is there anything to consider or watch out for?
Hi everyone
If I were to change across to MariaDB would my existing MySQL databases work without issue or is there anything I need to consider or watch out for?
Thank you
Stephen
Read moreAdvice on best way to serve Audio Files (MP3 etc) - Linux Box
Hi
I just wanted to know if anyone had any advice or experience with using small/short audio files in their websites?
I'm intending on placing the odd audio clip into a survey to test advertising effectiveness. The audio clip will be short, around 30 seconds and the survey might be hit by a 1000 users over the period (with the possibility of up to 300 users accessing the survey - and the resulting audio file - at anyone time (depending on when they hit the server).
Read moreVoucher/Discount Codes Drupal Site - Discussion - Ideas/How to's/Pointers
Hi everyone
I just wanted to create a discussion based around voucher/discount codes websites such as Groupon, MyVoucherCodes, etc, and how these might be reproduced in Drupal.
Read moreHow to identify if a user has 'clicked' the edit tab of an entity (as opposed to the view tab/page)?
Hi everyone
I've looked everywhere and cannot appear to find an answer to a problem I have and was hoping that someone might be able to advise.
To cut a long story short Profile2 permissions do not appear to be working properly whereby if you want a certain profile to exclude an authenticated user from being able to 'edit' the profile and only 'view' this is not possible (basically permissions only appear to work for Admin) - [for those that are interested please see http://drupal.org/node/1954290]
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