Drush

Developing Drupal sites can be quite a challenge and adventure. And this comes from those who call themselves Drupal developers

New to using Features or Drush? Or maybe you don't use them together. You should read this post from BeFused and start using features from the commandline. It really is the best way to build your features.

While building Drupal websites, we end up building modules for all sorts of random tasks – anything from simply reorganizing the contents of a node object or adding fields to the Site Information page to views plugins or huge integrations.

Everyone needs to have a backup plan for their live site. Not only can your server's disk get corrupted, but you can also erroneously overwrite your site with bad code or bad data, or your site can get hacked.

Here is the top 10 Drush commands from the fine folk who contributed (in some cases, they are variations of a command that I listed in my post).

But clearing all of Drupal's caches at once can be overkill. You usually don't need to clear everything, and doing so can put heavy load on your servers (especially if your site is large or gets a lot of traffic).

There comes a time in every Drupal developer's day when they realize they really don't need a field on some content type or other entity. Maybe it was a field holding temporary data while you did a migration or maybe a feature