Scott Mitchell

You can allow anonymous users to utlilize various features of your site such as making comments. When doing so, these unregistered users will have a specific user name. By default this is set to ‘Anonymous‘, however you can change this to anything you wish. This quick Drupal 8 guide will demonstrate how to do so. Read More >

Within Drupal 8 there are a few different canned emails that can are used for different situations. Some are sent at the end of the registration cycle, upon account activation, if an account is blocked, canceled, or a password is recovered. You are able to edit the content of the emails so you can tailor Read More >

Enabling user signatures can be a nice feature for your site members. This can allow them a small amount of customization for their accounts. Some site admins disallow the feature due to spamming potential, but if you decide you want to allow signatures in your Drupal 8 site, follow the instructions below. How to enable Read More >

When managing member within your Drupal site, you will have the capability to regulate who can sign up. Some sites will want to allow open signups where anyone can register, while others may want to allow administrative approval. Even more strict will be sites that only allow new members to be physically added by the Read More >

Once you install your blog module and can have created your first blog post content types, you may notice that there is no ability for visitors to leave comments. This is a normal feature for blogs and likely expected for your website visitors. They like to leave comments on blog posts so they can interact Read More >

After creating your comment field for your blog post content type it will appear in every blog post node that is created. However, you may have posts where you do not want to allow comments or possibly even close down further comments on a post due to abuse. Follow this guide to learn how to Read More >

After creating a field type, such as a comment, for a particular content type you will notice that the field’s label will appear on the page, even if the field is disabled. To learn how to disable the label so that there is not an extraneous title hanging out on your screen, follow the instructions Read More >

Once your blog module has been installed and enabled, you will be ready to begin adding blog entries. Below is a quick guide on how to add blog content to your Drupal site. If you are starting a blog from scratch, you can get started today with optimized Drupal Hosting. How to create a blog Read More >

Blogging is one of the more popular online activities and the main reason some people create a website. For Drupal 8, however, the Blog module was removed from the core files. This in no way means that blogging is disabled or cannot be done within Drupal 8. You can find the Blog module at https://drupal.org/project/blog Read More >

Once you have configured your contact form, you can now attach the contact form to your menu. This way the contact form can be found and accessed from an easy to access menu instead of only the link in the footer area. Below are the instructions for adding the contact form to your menu in Read More >

One of the more common pages found on websites is the contact form page. This is normally a page with some type of a form that the user can fill out. The content is then sent to a specific email address so the feedback can be reviewed and responded to. This tutorial will guide you Read More >

Sometimes there are situations where you may end up needing to remove existing an forum from a Dupal website. This is common when you change the focus of content or merge content together. Below is a very simple tutorial that explains how to delete an existing forum in Drupal. How to Remove an Existing Forum Read More >

One of the more popular stock modules in Drupal is the forum module. This allows you to create a platform for your site where visitors can come and have discussions related to topics they have in common. This helps create a community within your site, which can help your site’s popularity and growth. Below are Read More >

Drupal 8 has a slightly different approach to Clean URLs than the previous versions. The old dirty URLs such as https://example.com/?q=home have been replaced with the more normal https://example.com/node/1> Still,this is not very descriptive. That is where URL Aliases come into play. You can customize the URL for a particular node so that the URL Read More >

What are SEF URLs? SEF URLs are also known as Search Engine Friendly URLs, or Clean URLs. Most websites today are not built using pages but rather the pages the visitor sees are built on demand by using a Content Management System, or CMS, like Drupal. Since the pages are built on the fly by Read More >

What is a Drupal Module? Drupal allows you to use many different modules in order to design your website. Modules are addons, or extensions, that can be added to the core of your Drupal site. Modules typically are built to perform a single function or a collection of related functions. This article will provide you Read More >