Moving from Piwik to Matomo on Drupal
I'm a big fan of Piwik, an open source analytics suite. Think Google Analytics, StatCounter, Sitemeter, etc. … only self-hosted an open source. There are many benefits of using it:
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Security and Performance: Remove old Modules
Yesterday, the Drupal Security team issued a Security Advisory for the Mollom module, SA-CONTRIB-2018-038. The module is now marked as "unsupported".
The security team is marking this project unsupported. There is a known security issue with the project that has not been fixed by the maintainer.
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Fixing circular login failure commenting on Wordpress blog
Here's a technical problem I encountered a while back.
Someone wrote a blogpost using the Wordpress platform. I wanted to post a comment. I wrote my comment, and entered (as requested) my name and email address.
I then received a message that I have to log into my Wordpress account:
"You are being asked to login because {my email} is used by an account you are not logged into now."
So I enter what I thought was my Wordpress password, and I discover that I have remembered wrongly.
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Overcoming memory issues installing Drupal with Composer
Drupal 8 and 9 use Composer for package management, but Composer requires more memory than is available on most shared hosting environments. This post discusses the problem, and explores a way of working around it to get things working.
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Drupal Security: Forewarned is Forearmed
Yesterday, at 7.13pm, the Drupal Security Team issued a public service announcement: Drupal 7 and 8 core highly critical release on March 28th, 2018 PSA-2018-001.
This needs a bit of background to understand.
How Drupal Core Updates Normally Work
Updates to Drupal Core fall into one of new kinds.
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Beware fake domain invoices
There are many scams doing the rounds. People must fall for them often enough to make it worth the criminals' time to keep trying. Here's one which you'll likely meet if you ever register a domain name. If you've just registered your first domain name, there's a risk that your lack of experience will make you vulnerable to panic and respond. So I'll post this to unpick how this works, and to put your mind at ease that you can safely ignore these emails.
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Finding the privacy leak: CrxMouse
I run various websites, and I keep a distant eye on which bits of them are popular and things like that. I'm always on the look out for anything that's not right, or any errors. I'd want to fix them; if you're going to have a website it needs to work properly so that people can use it, otherwise why bother?
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Connection not private warnings with Net Nanny
For years, I've been a fan of the internet filtering software Net Nanny. I'll explain why in a moment.
However I've just had to uninstall it, and I'm now looking for an alternative. (If you, personally, use something similar, please comment below with any recommendations of products to try or to avoid).
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Facebook: Page or Group
Image Credit: Facebook
A friend recently asked on Facebook about whether to use a Facebook Page or a Facebook Group for his newest project — or indeed whether to run both.
For what it's worth, here was my advice (now elaborated upon):
General Rule of Thumb: Choose
My general rule of thumb (which may be flawed) is that groups and pages have different pros and cons.
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Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device - Try the Task Manager
Almost every Windows user is familiar with the problem. You have an external hard drive, or a pen drive, attached to your computer. You know the correct way to eject the device: Don't just yank out the lead, because it could corrupt data if the computer was in mid-write at the time. Instead, use the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" tool in the notification area of the taskbar.
But then comes the problem:
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