Guaka! - drupal

WordPress command line interface

Guaka — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:55:21 +0000

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Drush is an amazing tool to manage Drupal installation from the command line. The other day I was once more annoyed at the lack of such tool for dealing with WordPress, more specifically keeping a WordPress site up-to-date. I started coding and quickly I had a couple of useful commands. But then I stumbled upon WP-CLI

"a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser."

Check the installation instructions at wp-cli.org. After that you can download wordpress like this:

wp core download

This will not yet set up the site. For that you can use

wp core config --dbname=your_db_name --dbuser=your_db_user --dbpass=your_db_pass

And possibly add e.g. --locale=nl_NL if you want a WordPress site in Dutch.

This is already quite nice but it gets much better when using wp-cli to write scripts for automation.
Here are some scripts to facilitate setting up new WordPress sites and to configure new and existing sites:

Upgraded guaka.org to Drupal 7, moneyless

Guaka — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:49:40 +0000

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It was about time. I finally managed to upgrade guaka.org to Drupal 7. It was actually very easy once I had my Aegir setup fixed. I just needed to migrate the site to the Drupal 7 platform. Like often with technology, Aegir can be quite nice when things work smoothly.

Next I have to clean up the site a little bit and customize the Bootstrap theme that I chose as a base theme.

And then last weekend I was at a very special event.

guaka: looking for #drupal #themer who can deliver, contact me with your hourly rate and examples of work - I have a...

Guaka — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:01:05 +0000

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guaka: looking for #drupal #themer who can deliver, contact me with your hourly rate and examples of work - I have a...

guaka: begin van http://teakmeubelen.com/ #gelderland - nog paar maandjes werk #drupal

Guaka — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:33:34 +0000

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guaka: begin van http://teakmeubelen.com/ #gelderland - nog paar maandjes werk #drupal

guaka: no need for #drupal admin_language module: 1. change admin user language 2. move user up at admin/config/regional/language/configure #d7

Guaka — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:29:00 +0000

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guaka: no need for #drupal admin_language module: 1. change admin user language 2. move user up at admin/config/regional/language/configure #d7

My first mobile site, in Drupal of course

Guaka — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:58:12 +0000

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In 2008 I built my first Drupal site, for a furniture business. The site proved to be a big success and we started some other furniture sites as well later on. I also worked on many other Drupal sites and the web in general hasn't been standing still. So last year we decided it was time for an upgrade. Not as easy as thought with a site that is ranking extremely well for a wide range of keywords. It also appeared more difficult to get to a new design.

I moved the entire teakdump site to teakmeubelen.nl, which is super easy with Aegir, added the new theme, and many of the custom modules I had developed for the new Meubels website. With that most of the site was ready except for some settings that weren't easy to grab in code.

As early adopters of technology (especially within the furniture world) we'd also been entertaining the thought of having a site that works well on mobile phones. I had already seen and heard of Mobile Tools, so I gave it a quick try.

The Drupal modules

I was pleasantly surprised by the integration with Display Suite and Context. That plus the Fusion Mobile theme gave me fairly decent mobile site in a very short time.

The mobile build mode make it a snap to get a slightly more usable rendering of nodes on mobile devices and the mobile context makes it easy to quickly rearrange the entire site for mobile devices.

I noticed an issue though: the Display Suite build mode was showing on the desktop site! I had to disable Mobile Tools and look back into this the next day.

Then I checked WURFL but that seemed to just complicate matters a bit more.

As it seems now there was a little bug in the code that sets the build mode, at least I wrote a patch for the Mobile Tools that works very well for me!

The main other thing I ran into was the caching of the theme. I'm using two different themes, one for the desktop version and one for the mobile version of the site. This doesn't work at all if you have the same URLs. So finally I had to take the redirect out of Aegir and into my nginx configuration so that m.teakmeubelen.nl also points to the same install (without a redirect).

SEO

From blog posts I gathered that Google doesn't seem to consider the same content on both desktop and mobile URLs as punishable duplicate content. I just wonder how Google is supposed to detect the mobile URLs (which is one more reason for a nice blog post about my first mobile site).

Now things still need some work here and there but overall I think this site looks great, both on the desktop and on mobiles. And I wonder where to put the iPad and other tablets, as I think the desktop site is just fine on an iPad but Mobile Tools probably considers it mobile hardware anyway.

guaka: running GNU #Screen as #aegir user? "Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/14' - please check." try: $ script /dev/null $ screen #drupal

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:35:13 +0000

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running GNU #Screen as #aegir user? "Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/14' - please check." try: $ script /dev/null $ screen #drupal

guaka: working on new #drupal 7 site http://insurance6.co.uk/6-month-car-insurance - #insurance #six #uk

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:50:25 +0000

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working on new #drupal 7 site http://insurance6.co.uk/6-month-car-insurance - #insurance #six #uk

guaka: http://drupal.org/project/arrange_fields drag-and-drop fields of #CCK content type, Webform or almost any other form in #Drupal

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:47:36 +0000

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http://drupal.org/project/arrange_fields drag-and-drop fields of #CCK content type, Webform or almost any other form in #Drupal

guaka: #upgraded #Belgium versie 3 is ingeschakeld. #Germany versie 1 is ingeschakeld. #Netherlands versie 1 is ingeschakeld. #ubercart #drupal

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:45:27 +0000

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#upgraded #Belgium versie 3 is ingeschakeld. #Germany versie 1 is ingeschakeld. #Netherlands versie 1 is ingeschakeld. #ubercart #drupal