Author name: Ivan Zugec

Ivan is the founder of WebWash and spends most of his time consulting and writing about Drupal. He's been working with Drupal for 12 years and has successfully completed several large Drupal projects in Australia.

Getting Started with Elementor in WordPress

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Elementor is an all-in-one WordPress page builder plugin that makes creating stunning websites easier. With its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, users can create beautiful and responsive pages in no time. Elementor also has a variety of templates and widgets to further customize your website’s look and feel.

The beauty of Elementor is that it takes away the hassle of coding while still allowing users access to powerful design features like custom fonts, full page layouts, animations, parallax backgrounds and more. It also offers extensive documentation so anyone can learn to use Elementor quickly and easily.

Customize View Fields using Twig in Drupal

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Views is a powerful module that allows you to create all sorts of components. It can be used to create something simple such as a list of articles, or complex such as a carousel or even an embedded map.

The Views UI can be intimidating if you’re new to Drupal, but as you use the module, you’ll find bits of functionality hidden deep in the interface.

One feature I want to discuss, which may not be evident at first, is the ability to add Twig code into view a fields.

Adding Twig code into a field allows you to change a field’s output dynamically. Which can be helpful under certain circumstances.

To add Twig code or some HTML into a field, click on the field, expand “Rewrite results”, check “Override the output of this field with custom text” and add your code into the text area.

Getting Started with Gravity Forms in WordPress

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Gravity Forms is a powerful form builder which you can use in your WordPress site to build custom forms and form workflows.

You can use it to create something simple such as a contact us form, or something complex, such as a multi-page form.

Gravity Forms can be used to create surveys, polls, user registration forms (create a WordPress account), newsletter sign-up forms, eCommerce forms, and so much more.

How to Host Drupal Sites using SiteGround

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SiteGround is a popular hosting provider for Drupal, WordPress or any PHP powered website.

They offer a wide variety of hosting packages, from shared, managed, and cloud hosting.

However, in this video we focus on their shared hosting product.

They offer three plans; StartUp, GrowBig and GoGeek. The StartUp plan only allows for a single website so we recommend that you go for the GrowBig or GoGeek as they offer more functionality and allow you to host unlimited websites.

All plans offer free SSL (using Let’s Encrypt) and “Out-of-the-box Caching”, where they use NGINX to cache static assets such as images and files. They also offer Memcached, which can help with speeding up your Drupal site.

The GoGeek plan allows you to host and deploy your Drupal site using Git, which could be helpful if you use Git to manage your Drupal site.

In this video, you’ll learn how to install Drupal using the GoGeek plan on SiteGround.

Add Theme Suggestion to Menus using Menu Block in Drupal

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Menu Block gives you additional functionality around managing the display of menus in block regions. Drupal core allows you to add any menu such as main navigation, footer, etc… into any region and you can control how many menu levels should be displayed. Menu Block gives you additional options such as setting a fixed parent item, changing the block title, and more.

But the one feature of Menu Block I want to show you in this tutorial is the ability to add a custom theme hook suggestion to menus.

Host and Build a Blog using Drupal and Cloudways

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In this video, you’ll learn how to build a Drupal site from start to finish. We start by setting up hosting for the site on Cloudways and pointing to a custom domain name.

Once hosting has been set up, we start building out the site. We create a custom content type, configure layout builder, add media functionality, create a bunch of custom view pages and much more.

I’ve broken out the video into sections below with timecodes and extra resources. For the content below to make any sense, you should follow along by watching the video.

How to Add Noindex to Pages using Metatag in Drupal

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Often on a website, you want to control what pages are displayed in search results. You can do this by adding the noindex meta tag to pages. I’m not going to cover why you would want some pages not to appear in the search results; however, I want to show you how to implement it in Drupal.

This tutorial will teach you how to use the Metatag module to control the noindex meta tag.

If you want to learn more about Metatag, read our tutorial “Getting Started with Metatag in Drupal”.

Add Widgets to Sidebar using Field Group in Drupal

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The Field Group module allows you to organize field widgets and formatters. You can group them into tabs, fieldsets and so on. It’s a great way to organize your content form, especially if you have a lot of widgets.

Want to learn more about Field Group: How to Customize Content Forms and Pages Using Field Group in Drupal

This tutorial will teach you how to add field widgets to the right sidebar on the content edit form.

If you create an article, you’ll notice that custom field widgets appear on the left. But on the right-hand side, you can control things such as menus, comments, URL alias and more.

We’ll use Field Group to add Tags and Image field on the Article content type into its own section on the right-hand side.

Customize Entity Reference Autocomplete Results using Views in Drupal

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An entity reference field allows you to create relationships between other entities such as pages and articles. The field comes with an autocomplete widget that will enable you to search and select other entities.

When you search for items to reference, just the titles are returned and in most cases, this is enough. But when you have lots of content with similar titles using the autocomplete widget becomes problematic because it’ll return similar results.

We can customize what is returned in the autocomplete widget using the Views module. No extra modules are required.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Views to change the autocomplete results.

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