PcHousekeeping got it's start years ago cleaning computers of dust, eliminating virus problems, and fighting general slowness. Today the name really doesn't fit too well as most all of our time is spent on Drupal development. Our specialty is site maintenance and administration. We work with sites that are not Drupal based like WordPress, but our heart is now in Drupal.

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Disable Breadcrumbs Module

Submitted by john on

Sometimes you want to selectively get rid of the breadcrumbs. They just look strange with some page configurations, and now with the Disable Breadcrumbs module you have all kinds of ways of controlling them. You can get rid of them "on a per node, per content type, or by path (any path) basis" and they will look fine everywhere else.

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Latest Flag Module Branch

Submitted by john on

Giving the Flag Module 7.x-3.x-dev a try here. We have only one flag configured and it's designed to send admin an email if there is a Spam comment to an article node.

I'll need to enable comments for this article and add a Spam comment to flag

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Trying Out JW Player

Submitted by john on

After seeing a few jobs on Elance related to JW Player I decided to give it a try and see what all the buzz was about. I'll have to say it seemed to have been a big time sink. The only version of the module that works with the latest 6 version of JW Player is 7.x-2.x-dev and it needs a lot of work. I couldn't even get the player to load in any of the 3 major browsers.

I'll follow the discussion in the issue queue and see what develops. A lot of people seem to want this to happen, but meantime there are better modules to do the same job.

Speed Up Drupal 7 Performance

Submitted by john on

I read a motivational article entitled 5 Ways To Improve Drupal 7 Performance. I think it taught me something and resulted in some experimentation here at PcHousekeeping.

I have installed Boost and Memcached which are two of the tools mentioned in the article. A side effect of testing is the CDN module which came to my attention and is really nice.

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Memcache Installed on VPS

Submitted by john on

The super support folks at KnownHost installed Memcached for me today on my VPS. I also asked for the PECL Memcache libraries and they got the latest stable version which is 2.2.6 at this time. Did I need it? No not for this little site with light traffic, but I had to see how it all worked so that when the time comes I will know.

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