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Conversion to Drupal 6.10 mostly complete & basically easy; some mess remains

Submitted by Twin Cities Ind... on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 02:37
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We are about 80% complete converting Twin Cities Indymedia from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.10, which has a variety of excellent new features. Fortunately, perilous database conversions went thru will nary a ripple of terrifying errors. Everyone's logins work as before.


Current issues:

  • Until the features & anti-spam arrangements are straightened out, comments and story posting are temporarily restricted. No mood for spammers
  • Random features not on :)
  • All the Drupal "Views" have been deleted, so your various multi-post pages are not necessarily working. Also the newswires at right have to be created anew. All the data is fine - we just need to put in the new ways to show it
  • Various bits of the 'art' of the site are out of place, fonts etc.
  • A variety of random items will be moved around
  • The 'performance enhancing' caching and other toggles are off. However the site should be a LOT faster under Drupal 6 anyway!!

We have now gained a lot of nice design options (in particular adding more democratic measures like possible voting for features, AJAX, WYSIWYG editor (FINALLY!) etc). These are not in yet.

In any case we had to the tricky conversion stuff before getting into everything else. We will try to get it all online soon &
Thanks for joining us & plz give us a feedback!

--Your busy info bees @ TCIMC Tech Collective

Drupal up to 5.8

Submitted by Dex on Sun, 07/13/2008 - 23:10
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Some quick updates:
Drupal 5.7 - 5.8

Modules:
Forward - 1.14
Nice_menus - 1.x-dev - newer
Openid - 1.2
similarterms - 1.8

Fixed CSS on the overflowing topic boxes on front page

Fixed links on frontpage box titles - to both aggregator feeds and the topic links

turned on caching and CSS aggregation here
http://twincities.indymedia.org/admin/settings/performance
which is good unless you're tweakin the CSS

hey, it's a start

Now that TC-IMC 2.0 is up, a note about OpenID

Submitted by Twin Cities Ind... on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 22:58
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Everyone should know that we have added the OpenID technology to Twin Cities Indymedia. OpenID provides an alternative to corporate identity control schemes like Google Accounts or Microsoft's Passport IDs.

Technically, OpenID is a protocol that associates an ID with a URL, and this URL can provide reliable authentication. (this means that linuxguy.openid.net means the same person, across the whole Internet).

Introducing Twin Cities Indymedia - 2.0

Submitted by Twin Cities Ind... on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 22:09
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drupal_0.gifWelcome to the new Twin Cities Indymedia! We apologize for the delay in launching the new site, but think you'll agree that it was worth the wait.

Our new site is light years ahead of the old Twin Cities Indymedia (TC-IMC) in user-friendliness, functionality, and style. In addition, it is based on the Drupal Content Management System, which helps us maintain wiring of the site, which in turn means less downtime.

Of course, this website is only part of what makes Indymedia work. The crucial component of every Independent Media Center is YOU, the users. The launch of this new site is only one part of an overhaul of Twin Cities Indymedia. We are also in the process of forming new Editorial and Tech Collectives. If you are interested in participating in either of these groups, please set up a site account, visit the Groups page (above), and join the working group you would like to participate in!

Please take the time to poke around a bit to explore the new layout and functions. The new site includes the same core functionality as the old site, with a few critical augmentations:

Updated core to 5.5 and also modules

Submitted by Dex on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 01:02
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Nothing too special happening. But I updated the core to 5.5 with no hiccups so far, and also upped all the modules. No problems. We should be in good shape to launch?

Coding regions and hard-coding nodes

Submitted by Dex on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 22:35
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It was hard to find this stuff. I'm a little snagged on it right now, but might as well make a useful record of where the codes are to do everything:

Custom regions: at first, seemed to be the key. how to make em: http://drupal.org/node/29139
More about it: http://cmsproducer.com/configuring-drupal-theme-templates-content-regions
Making a new sidebar or other areas: http://drupal.org/node/150177
How to make the direct call to a node, from a .tpl.php : http://api.drupal.org/api/function/node_view
This plugin nodeasblock can be handy: http://drupal.org/project/nodeasblock

other lil updates

Submitted by Dex on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 18:07
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Had to update the XML Sitemap, Token and Pathauto. Also adding the nifty modules created by the RakeMag designers. (Oddly XMLSitemap must have had two releases in one day or something?)

WE should take note of this site, though it is skeletal of content yet: http://www.rallyready.org/

Also I'm working on the menu right now. Should be OK.

FIXED: display of categories on all posts probably

FIXED: RSS feeds - created two for all Articles and Features. More possible, setup (clone the view) in moments.

Rake Mag rocks sophisticated Drupal site, very well explained!

Submitted by Dex on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 16:25
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Check this out. The Rake Magazine overhauled their site and made it all in Drupal. Better yet they carefully explained how they did it, and also have a very comprehensive set of modules listed. They even authored a couple sweet modules themselves (and we should consider em)!

http://drupal.org/node/191608

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