It was only as I started writing up this blog post to help anyone else that might be stymied by this issue, that I noticed the "Force using fields" already existed in Drupal 7. So maybe I am the only person who stumbled across this wacky variant that requires an extra module.
But I decided to share this post, just in case.
Posted February 13, 2016 in Drupal 8
Drupal, much like PHP itself, is rife with the internal inconsistencies that come from people solving similar problems in slightly different ways. These inconsistencies aren't always at the level of a "bug" or a "regression", but sometimes you wish you could change it. This is one of those times.
Posted February 13, 2016 in Drupal 8, coding walkthrough
In addition to the code that I used to accomplish theme switching based on active menu, I also describe the steps I took to investigate options, and what lead me to the solution that I built.
Posted February 12, 2016 in Drupal 8, coding walkthrough
In which I acknowlegde that I'm likely "doing it wrong".
Posted January 24, 2016
The D8 Contrib Tracker is meta-project on drupal.org that is designed to serve as a collective tracking system for the porting status of contributed modules. This set-up works great for Drupal's development community, but what about those of us who don't live and breathe the issue queue and only want to know about the handful of modules that are important to them? Happily there is an easier way, using some often-overlooked features of drupal.org.
Posted October 15, 2015
Or, When Budget Bites You in the Butt.
Posted January 27, 2015
As a volunteer organizer for this year's MidCamp (Chicago, March 19-21), I'm taking on the task of coordinating the after-party (possibly -parties). In addition to figuring out the logistics (venue, catering, marketing), I'm reaching out to the community to find out if there are any activities that attendees would like to have available during this time.
The MidCamp after-party will be a welcoming, inclusive event where attendees can socialize and have fun.
Posted January 12, 2015
While having lunch with both old and new friends on Saturday, the discussion turned to board games and a few of us decided to hold an impromptu game night, to be hosted where I was staying (an AirBnB location with plenty of space). adellefrank went out and purchased a few board games for us to play, and we had so much fun playing Pandemic that we decided to play it on Sunday night as well!
Posted November 19, 2014
Since Drupal is a community project, the code is always being fixed, updated, and changed. In the past few months there have been a number of major security holes that have been fixed -- but part of the process of fixing vulnerabilities in open-source code is communicating what the holes are, how they might be exploited, and how to prevent writing code that contains those holes in the future. So it becomes a double-edged sword -- the issue is fixed, but hackers can take the information and exploit sites that haven't been updated yet.
Posted October 29, 2014 in Drupal
Backstory: Part of a site I'm currently building is set up so that approved users (aka content submitters) can submit resources. Another category of users, content administrators, will need to be able to define the different types of resources (ie. download, YouTube link, PDF file). Neither user group needs to know or care that we're using a single Resource content type to manage these items; the goal is for content submitters to "Post a YouTube link", instead of going to "Create Resource" and selecting the taxonomy term for a YouTube link.
Posted July 29, 2014 in Drupal, entityreference_prepopulate, taxonomy_menu, custom module