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Date: This package contains both a flexible date/time field type Date field and a Date API that other modules can use. https://www.drupal.org/project/date

MySQL Repair / Optimize Tables in phpMyAdmin

Occasionally the MySQL database may run slower than desired. This issue can be fixed quickly through phpMyAdmin. Original Link here.

Note: Please back up any database on the account before making changes)

Collective Web Making: We are building a web-space for the digital maker collective, it will be a community run website for everything open we want to share together, site will also be fully open to anyone to view & join.

If you are interested in getting involved or just following along the development of this new 'Digital Maker Collective' site and/or joining in on the build please create an account on this site (will not be an admin account at this stage, just a user account).

This suite is primarily a set of APIs and tools to improve the developer experience. It also contains a module called the Page Manager whose job is to manage pages. In particular it manages panel pages, but as it grows it will be able to manage far more than just Panels. - https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools

File entity provides interfaces for managing files. It also extends the core file entity, allowing files to be fieldable, grouped into types, viewed (using display modes) and formatted using field formatters. File entity integrates with a number of modules, exposing files to Views, Entity API, Token and more. - https://www.drupal.org/project/file_entity

You need Views - https://www.drupal.org/project/views if

Media: Instagram module - https://www.drupal.org/project/media_instagram

Provides an Instagram as a supported media provider. The correct url is like https://instagram.com/p/fA9uwTtkSN/.

Requirements

Media
Media Internet - A submodule of the Media module.

If you are interested in getting involved in the development of this new 'Digital Maker Collective' site hands on web building, please lets us know leave a comment below.

The site is using Drupal & so please familerlise yourself with this content management system, the more you know the more you'll be able to join in the development. There are loads of ‘Drupal 7 for Beginners’ - Getting Started online tutorials online - (let us know if you find something good) We recommend you follow the tutorials on Lynda.com (these are free to access these with your UAL account).

IMCE is an image/file uploader and browser that supports personal directories and quota. - https://www.drupal.org/project/imce

This module will allow Drupal to replace textarea fields with the CKEditor - a visual HTML editor, usually called a WYSIWYG editor. This HTML text editor brings many of the powerful WYSIWYG editing functions of known desktop editors like Word to the web. It's very fast and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer. https://www.drupal.org/project/ckeditor