Drupal Answers Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Top new questions this week: Policy Question: Can I Use a Submodule that Does Not Follow Drupal Code Guidelines? I have a fairly extensive plugin system that I wrote. It uses an MVVM pattern, where the lions' share of the code is in a cross-CMS class. I haven't submitted the Drupal plugin to the Drupal repo, ... community-drupal-org coding-standards   asked by MAGNAWS 6 votes answered by Free Radical 8 votes Where to render? Preprocess or template? We are constantly improving our coding performance and we are monitoring every page load to optimize loading en rendering times in our websites. Above statement in mind, I stumbled upon the question ... theme-templates performance preprocess optimization   asked by Michiel 6 votes answered by Clive 5 votes Best practices for copying data (only) back from production site to testing site after exporting views as features to prod? After building/testing a Drupal 7 site, I deployed it to prod server, exporting all views as features. Now the views are all 'in database' on test site, but 'in code' on live site - on the theory that ... views database version-control   asked by Annie G 5 votes answered by Alexar 0 votes How to install an existing Drupal profile with drush? Seems like searching for the answer on Google just leads me to how to create make files and profiles. I know how to do that. I also know how to install Drupal with drush. But I want to install one ... drush installation-profile   asked by Quentin Campbell 5 votes answered by greg_1_anderson 5 votes How to make an external database available to Views? There's a lot of discussion here and in other places about using external databases in Drupal. What I've figured out from that is: The best way to work with data in a database table is to use the ... external-database   asked by NewSites 4 votes answered by Pierre.Vriens 1 vote I need to add rel="nofollow" to the button provided by "views load more" module I need to add rel="nofollow" to the button "Load More" provided by Views Load More, but the problem is that the anchor is created in views_load_more.module (line 91) this way: $li_next = ... views links hook-theme   asked by PolleX 4 votes answered by PolleX 4 votes Avoid sql-drop or sql-sync drush commands in a particular environment I'm syncronizing databases form stage to local environments with drush commands like: drush @dev sql-drop drush @stage @dev sql-sync How can I protected that the @stage server reject to drop or ... 7 drush   asked by jorgetutor 3 votes answered by greg_1_anderson 3 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Any way to add CSS for a single page/node? I'm cleaning up my big crazy style sheets (possibly pertinent to a future question) and I'm wondering the best way to add custom CSS to a specific node or page. In particular, my work site's home ... 7 theming css panels   asked by epersonae 53 votes answered by Decipher 49 votes Count of nodes by type I am looking for a snippet that lets me display the total count for a specific node type, e.g. "Pages = 167" or "Products = 10630." What code should I use to achieve this? 7 nodes   asked by Diane 20 votes answered by Cyclone 24 votes Can you answer these? How to load taxonomy terms from user profile field using entityfieldquery()? I want to write hook_node_form_alter() and limit taxonomy terms with only user checked terms on his profile in field_companies. I can't pass the 1st step - load array of user checked terms from ... entity-field-query taxonomy-reference   asked by tlito 1 vote links__system_main_menu in drupal not gettign called I created a theme and the theme name is abc. I am trying to override the default menu in drupal. I have the following filed in the theme folder (folder name is abc). abc.info file and page.tpl and ... menu themes   asked by Pramod Sivadas 1 vote Common Exposed filter for each tab I have different fields and showing in different blocks, and want to apply exposed filter to all but my problem is it shows different exposed filters for each different block. I want to make it common ... views-filters   asked by Rohan Kumar 1 vote

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