Facebook Connect

Facebook recently launched a new feature called Facebook Connect, it enables Facebook users to share their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any websites they wanted. According to Facebook, this features will enable any websites to implement and offer more features of Facebook Platform.

Adding Facebook Connect to your or site is a bit tricky, but if you’re using WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal, VBulletin forum or MediaWiki you can add this feature easily because those CMS have a plugin/module to help add Facebook Connect in just a few steps. Read more…

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Drupal.org New Design

Drupal.org, the community plumbing site for all Drupal users around the globe is preparing the final iteration for Drupal.org redesign (iteration 11). The team are now in the process of recruiting theme developers to help theme create a base theme and site’s specific theme for Drupal.org.

Besides preparing for redesign, Drupal.org also in the process of porting the site (which still use Drupal 5.x) to Drupal 6.x Read more…

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Today, I got a Drupal Security Announcement email from the Drupal team. In the email, the team  stated that they found multiple vulnerabitilies and weaknesses in Drupal. But neither of these vulnerabilities are readily exploitable.

Some of the vulnerabilities found includes XSS, Cross Site Request Forgeries, Session Fixation and SQL Injection.

These vulnerabilities and weakness affects all 5.x and 6.x Drupal branches, and it’s strongly advice that you update your Drupal powered site to the latest version. Read more…

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After a year of development, the Drupal core team finally released Drupal 6.0 stable version. This released marks a new beginning for Drupal and its communities. Drupal is known for its performance, scalability and flexibility.

According to Drupal team, Drupal 6 features a lot of improvements in this award winning open source CMS. Read more…

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A year ago, its kinda hard to find high quality free Drupal theme on Drupal.org. But since the birth of Drupal 5, many theme designer interested in creating free Drupal theme, and some of theme create a really beautiful Drupal themes. Read more…

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Let say that you want to have or  create a splash screen page on your Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, Wordpress where users can choose what what language their prefer, or you just want to put an a huge image to greet your visitors. And suddently you’re wondering “How on earth I’m supposed to do that kind of thing?”.

Well, don’t be sad now because it’s not difficult to that. All you need is to place an extra command in your .htaccess. Just add this line of code anywhere in your .htaccess file. Read more…

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Just a few days ago, the Drupal core team have relased a new version for the 4.7.x and 5.x branch.

This updated version fixed some security issues in the previous Drupal instalation. The security issues mainly involved Cross site scripting.

Changes in the new version

• Drupal 4.7.11 and 5.6 will now require PHP 4.3.5 or higher.
• No longer support servers with the PHP directive register_globals set to on.

If you’re still using an old version of Drupal, then get your feet together and update your site with the latest version.

More Info: http://drupal.org/drupal-5.6

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By default, Drupal only provides RSS feed for all the items on your front page. What should you do if you want to create RSS only for one specific taxonomy term?  Well, did you now that you can create custom RSS feed using Views module?

Before we move on, please download Views module first and the activate it (I’m sure you know how to do this, right?). Ok here’s how to do it. Read more…

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Dries Buytaert -founder of the famous Drupal CMS- is expecting a new baby. This will be his second child after the first one borned six years ago.

I don’t know Dries or his wife Karlijn personally, but one thing I know that Dries had developed an amazing CMS that have helped thousands of people out there.

I just want to congrats Dries and his wife Karlijn for the baby, hopefully in the future their baby will be a great person just like his/her mom and dad.

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I’m happy to announce that one of my friend (Wendy) in Drupal-ID have developed a new WIYSIWYG editor for Drupal. This WIYSIWYG editor is much smaller than TinyMCE or fckEditor.

Wendy claimed beside being smaller from other WIYSIWYG editor, this module could be the first WIYSIWYG editor specially designed for Drupal CMS.

I haven’t got a chance to really try and use it, but this is a great news for me, I’m so proud that one of Drupal-ID member -Indonesian Drupal Community- has made a great contribution to the Drupal community (Wendy is one of the founder of Drupal-ID). Read more…

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