Drupal 8

As a site builder one of the common questions is how to have Drupal use the main theme, or user-theme when a user is adding or editing content.

One very neat way to achieve this is to use the Context module.

Create  a new context, then add conditions. For example, for users editing a certain content type, do the following:

another stub.

I needed a working example of a custom module, so this will be it.

why use custom modules? some Drupal customizations require writing functions that are included when Drupal 8 executes, such as rewriting the language menu in a "preprocess template function", and these must go into a custom module.

Most customized sites include a site-specific module.

another stub. I hope I will have time to write out the many stubs I authored in the past days, lol.

so this one is about editing node fields from code. code maybe from a custom module, as described in another stub!

2 links:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52822719/drupal-8-updating-node-programmatically-does-not-update-the-state-of-the-node-i

http://www.drupal8.ovh/en/tutoriels/65/update-a-node-entity-programmatically-drupal-8

your web applications running on your local machine, such as for example Drupal running on Wampserver or XAMPP on your computer or laptop, might encounter some errors when trying to use cURL to access external resources through the internet.

here an example from Drupal:

Clear the table "flood" in the database

this is a stub, the article will be about the quick and dirty method of updating Drupal, no composer, no drush required.

do a full backup of website and database first!

easy steps on a Plesk server, but you can easily reproduce on another platform: