How to Add Email Subscription To Your Drupal Blog

This a $700 dollar video! I got an email from a reader of SeoEcom that she had aquote of $700 to add an email subscription to her drupal blog site.If you can follow along to this video, you can learn how to

1. Use Drupal Views to create an RSS View for all your blogs (or anycontent you want to RSS on your site)
2. Burn the feed at Feedburner and use all the advanced tracking and emailsubscription features of a Feedburner feed
3. Enable email subscriptions to your blog for your Drupal site

Please follow along to the videos on how to do this. First off you need todownload Drupal Views (required) and Feedburner redirector (optional). Unzip thefiles and use your FTP application to install these modules on your Drupal site.Once these modules are installed you will need to enable them and then you canstart to define your view.

Some Common Drupal “Problems” And How to Solve Them

Hi, I am Alec and this is my first blog post. I have been working with Drupal for the past 3 years now and I am passionate about it. In the next few months, I will be writing a series of articles on common problems/ issues encountered by first time Drupal users from time to time.

I have made a list of five and in the coming months, will add more to this list:

1.)The first most common one encountered might be: “Forgot the admin password. What do I do next?"

A simple solution would be to just go to yoursite.com/user/password and follow instructions.

What if for some reason the mail didn’t come due to your Junk mail filter, or you have not installed Drupal mail function. Here are some possibilities, one, you have simply forgotten which email address was used for the admin account, or the mail address that was used no longer exist.

5 Common Drupal Mistakes You Can Avoid

This is a list of the most common mistakes I have encountered in my daily Drupal work. It can seem like obvious things for the daily Drupal hacker, but are nevertheless commonly seen when working on projects someone else has started or maintained.

Drupal Security

Drupal uses an open security model, to publish vulnerabilities, issue patches for known vulnerabilities and get independent audit of security issues using third party tools and its vast community.  With over 4000s contributed modules, the practices of Drupal.org, with it’s open security model, make it one of the most secure platforms to do business online and leverage community contribution toward a secure platform.

For the average Drupal site all that needs to be done is to keep its modules up-to-date and also the Drupal core version, which as of this writing is Drupal 6.12 and 5.18. Some deployments of Drupal have massive changes to the core, which should be an expecption managed by the client (that engages in the development effort, understands risks and alternatives)  – that if changes are made to the core or to a contributed module, then there is an strategy in place to test the site for various security issues, independently of Drupal.

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