The SEO Checklist module provides a great ready-made starter kit of drupal modules geared toward getting your site in shape for search engines, and baking in a number of practices that will help boost your search engine rankings.
If you're used to using drush to download modules, here's the list of modules mentioned in the checklist:
So, you've got a Drupal 6 site, and you want to find out if the Drupal 7 versions of the contributed modules you're using are ready to go? Me too!
You could visit the project site for each module, but that's going to be time consuming. Plus, maybe you've got quite a few sites, each using different combinations of modules.
Drush should make quick work of this, right? Of course it will! But there are a few quirks to the process (at least the one that I came up with!).
I'd been looking for a way to get an email report of available module and theme updates on a growing collection of drupal sites.
The traditional way to do this is to bop around to the admin/reports/updates page for each of the sites. This can be fun to do, of course, but a bit time consuming.
I figured that drush, the most essential MacGyver tool for any drupuler, would make short work of this, and indeed, it does. Enter:
Drupal is a stellar platform for innovation - but why? I've been thinking about that question quite a bit as I read Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From - an exploration of 6 interconnected environmental factors that spark creative thinking and innovation.
The adjacent possible, Johnson's first factor, is clearly a big part of why Drupal is such a great tool for building something new.
