To create a slideshow in Drupal 7 Create a Slideshow content Log into Drupal as administrator In the top menu select Content and Add content On the Add Content page select Slideshow On the Create Slideshow page enter the title of the page, and populate the fields for the images. Click the Choose File to upload the …
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How to install a Drupal module
To install a Drupal module Download the Drupal module from the www.drupal.org website, Unzip the module, With an FTP client upload the module directory to sites/all/modules/contrib Log into the Drupal site as administrator, In the menu select Modules, Click the switch next to the module name to turn it ON. The orange switch label reminds you to …
Migrate a WordPress web site to DreamHost
DreamHost is one of the recommended WordPress hosting providers. The DreamHost website has an extensive knowledge base, but the necessary steps to move your live site from another provider are scattered over multiple pages at https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/214693178-How-to-manually-migrate-WordPress-to-DreamHost. These steps will guide you through the streamlined migration process. At your old provider Create a site and database …
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Cannot restart the Atlassian Confluence service on Windows
When the Atlassian Confluence wiki is installed on a Windows server, it frequently becomes unavailable. Sometimes it is possible to restart the Atlassian Confluence Windows service, but most of the time the Stop phase times out with: Windows could not stop the Atlassian Confluence service on Local Computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond …
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The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly
When you install WordPress on a Windows machine you may get the following error message: HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.5\php-cgi.exe – The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly Detailed Error Information: Module FastCgiModule Notification ExecuteRequestHandler Handler PHP55_via_FastCGI1 Error Code 0x000000ff The error message is misleading. If you open the Application events in …
Where to find the Drupal site version
To find the Drupal site version navigate to SITE_URL/admin/reports/updates/update The page shows the recommended module updates. At the bottom of the page you will find the current Drupal version and the version of the recommended update.
How to log in and out of a Drupal site
If the Drupal site does not have a login page just navigate to SITE_URL/user If the menu does not have a logout button, navigate to SITE_URL/user/logout
How to add sample programming code to a post or page in WordPress
Double quotes When you write a post or create a page you may want to add sample program snippets to it. If your code contains double quotes (“) the WordPress page will display different characters for the opening and closing quotes, like in this “example”. Unfortunately these characters differ from the quotes you use …
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How to modify a WordPress theme
There are two ways to modify a WordPress theme: the fast way and the smart way. The fastest way is to edit the files of the theme by selecting the files with the “Appearance”, “Editor” menu option. The drawback is that when the theme is updated your customizations will be wiped out. The update process …
Date specific header image in the Witcher World WordPress theme
Have you ever wanted to display specific images on certain dates in the header of your WordPress page like Google does? If you want to automatically set the header image based on the date there is an easy way to do it. This way you can display a prepared image on certain dates like Independence …
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