New modules:

• Comment closer - configured to close comments on nodes older than three months. This saves the hassle of worrying about spammers posting to old threads.
• Fastoggle - Adds a few AJAXified administration functions to the site.
• Advanced Forums - Makes the forums purtier.

The forums look better than I expected. I put up a poll to see if anyone wants to migrate back to Drupal.   [Read more...]

General Information

The CS Club website URL is:
http://segfault.cs.sonoma.edu/

The web site is built with Drupal, an extensible weblog package. More information about Drupal is at the Drupal home page:
http://drupal.org/
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Disabled two modules.

* The ContentProfile module looked ugly and did not seem to add any features that we can't get by adding a regular textbox to the user profiles, so I just added a textbox.
* The SwitchTheme module is no longer necessary since users can
switch their theme on their My Account page after giving them the "select different themes" permission.

We have many new modules but before getting to that, I have added two new Taxonomy Vocabularies (sets of tags). [EDIT: I got rid of the new Section taxonomy because my ideas about it were just too complicated. Since it wasn't used for anything, it is being renamed and repurposed.]

The two new Vocabularies are:

• Event Type - To describe the type of event that an event is. Examples: meeting, table, speaker (it's easier to spell than colloquium), lan party, and so on. In the far, far future it might become possible to color-coordinate the calendar based on this information.
• Security - For creating pages that will not be visible to the average user, using the Taxonomy Access Control Module.

I also considered re-enabling the Book module to put Pages into Sections, but we can probably handle sectioning through the tags taxonomy.

The current Tags taxonomy will continue to be used for listing what a post is about. Go nuts with it. Now for the new modules:   [Read more...]

I knew something was missing after the upgrade (besides the users since it's summer), but I couldn't quite tell what it was. This was it: the "add a comment" links were not there because comments were disabled on new posts. Looking back, they were disabled on a lot of old posts, too. I have enabled comments by default for new blog entries so this should not be a problem now.

Settings set in comment settings of admin/content/node-type/ for all the node types

• Default comment setting to Read/Write instead of Read Only.
• Comment Controls display above the blog instead of "do not display"
• Comment submission form display below post or comments instead of separate page
• Display order: oldest first.

I also discovered the comments queue in admin/content/comment and approved a few comments that had been waiting for several months.   [Read more...]

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