Using Rules and Views Bulk Operations to automate Drupal 7

This post is primarily focused on how to use the Rules module to automate actions on your Drupal site. It discusses the differences between a Rule and Rule Component; how to use Rules to identify, evaluate and modify associated fields of a node or other entity; and how to pass data to a Rule with …

Modifying Commerce Line Item Access control in Drupal Commerce 7

Drupal Commerce provides a number of “entities” that serve as content containers for the various elements of an e-commerce order. These entities include products, customer profiles (addresses), and orders. In addition, Drupal Commerce uses a “line item” entity to specify entries outlining products, tax and shipping fees that make up an order. In most cases, access to …

Is “Inversion of Control” the future of Web interfaces?

Responsive design isn’t going to be enough when it comes to providing workable user experiences for mobile Web users. New techniques are leading to an “inversion of control” from server side to client side interactions and interfaces will increasingly mimic look and feel of native apps in terms of navigation an touch control. The founder …

Why can’t I boost my Facebook post?

We recently created the 25 second video below to promote our business online. We posted it on our Facebook Business Page: https://www.facebook.com/inforestcom/. We started getting traffic from the time we posted the video (356 views and 572 people reached) at the time we created this post. Not viral but not bad for a small web …

An Introduction Into Google Adwords

Google Adwords Google.com/adwords/ Adwords is Google’s advertising platform that allows business to advertise on google searches, YouTube videos., etc.. Basically where Google gets most of it’s billions from. Adwords allows you to advertise in any specified location either Princeton, NJ or Globally. Signing up for Google AdWords is free. You only pay when someone clicks …

WordPress Select Template in Custom Post Type

I had what seems to be a common problem applying a custom template to a custom post type in WordPress. First, I up the post type with custom fields using Custom Field Suite and Custom Post Type UI.  I initially had the a custom template set up and working properly, pulling in the corresponding custom fields that …

Security Basics for Web Developers

If you’re a web developer, there’s a good chance some of your code could be vulnerable. Unfortunately, if you haven’t had any security flaws, it is more than likely that you will run into some in the future. But most web developers don’t understand specific vulnerabilities in their code, generally SQL injections, as many do …