Drupal 6.x

Have you recently upgraded or updated your Drupal site? Updated it enough to where the URLs have changed? This is bad for people finding your site via search engines. The search engines are still linked to your old site. What happens when someone clicks on the link? They get a Page Not Found on your new site. This is not good.

Search 404 Module is the answer. It takes what you were looking for and searches your new Drupal site and returns the results it found instead of the Page Not Found. In this video I show you how this works and what different options you have.

This module is a must have if you have recently built a new site on top of an old one... such as what I have done with DrupalDude.com. Enjoy!

By default Drupal will trim your posts to 600 characters. What this means is that if you have a story or posting that is longer than 600 words, Drupal will cut the content to the first 600 characters for the front page and then add a 'read more' link to the full posting.

There is a setting in Drupal that allows you change the ammount of characters that it will trim to. You can set it to the maximum of unlimited, meaning that your whole post will show on the front page and it won't cut any characters, to a minimum of 200 characters. If you set it to the mimimum, it would be like having the first few sentences of your post on the front page.