I enabled the Locale module and imported the Afrikaans .po file. This went well. However, when I tried to do the same for the Spanish translation, there's a .po for every module, theme, and profile. I wonder if there's an easier way to do this than importing each one separately. Also, when I switched back to English as the default language, I have some Spanish straggling terms still hanging out in the toolbars. Hmmm, this will need some more testing and investigation to implement, I think.

I was experimenting with Actions and Triggers. It was fun, but I'm not sure how to get email updates about specific comments, as opposed to the general email I was getting.

I also need to figure out how to be notified via email when a user submits a comment into the approval queue.

My coworker Cheryl just found this article:

A Newbies Guide to Contributed Drupal Modules

In it, the author summarizes his favorite contrib modules in a newbie-friendly manner. Some modules he reviews are:

• Views
• Panels
• CCK
• PathAuto
• Mollom
• Image/Imagecache
• ...and more

I'm planning to reference this article often when we set up the new site.

I just installed and enabled Views. Unfortunately I got the following error message in my admin/modules page when I enabled it:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 263751 bytes) in /home2/vfrankly/public_html/includes/menu.inc on line 958

I uninstalled the module and everything is back to normal. However, if I re-extract the module the error message comes back, even if I haven't enabled the module.

I enabled ModuleInfo. It's very simple and very cool. Now each enabled module on my site has an information link that tells me all about the module and where it's being used.

I enabled the Admin Role module today. This module is supposed to allow the user to assign all permissions to a specified role.

Unfortunately, the module had some issues with 6.5, such as assigning all permissions to the wrong role, or not assigning them at all. As you can probably imagine, it was pretty frustrating and disturbing.

I have an issue posted on drupal.org, so we'll see what happens. I have disabled the module until the issue is resolved.

UPDATE:

I enabled the admin_menu module. It was very easy to configure. I removed the Administration menu items off of the Navigation menu so they weren't in two places, which would have defeated the purpose of installing the module in the first place.

One thing I'll need to remember: Re-enable the Administration menu items in the Navigation menu when the time comes to do a Drupal version upgrade. Otherwise, after I disable all contrib modules I'll be left without an admin menu at all. That would suck. Five bucks says I'll forget to do that...

Drupal Chix has a thread going right now about Labor Saving Modules & Tips. MiriamNZ posted a comment about the modules she finds useful. Included were:

• admin_menu
• adminrole
• moduleinfo

Upgrading from 6.4 to 6.5 was pretty easy. Just follow the Upgrade.txt instructions and use SimpleScripts to perform the upgrade and Voila!

Nothing seems to have broken.

From what I can tell, I can't make a content type created in CCK a menu item.

For example: I created a content type called Book Reviews that I wanted to link to in the right nav menu. From what I can tell from the Drupal documentation I can't do this (well maybe using Views?).

But if you look to the right you'll see a "Reviews" section there. How did I do this?

1. Create a vocabulary in taxonomy called Reviews with "Book Reviews" and "Movie Reviews" listed as terms.
2. Assign these new vocabularies to each book and movie review.