The Week in Drupal: June 21, 2013

Wayne Eaker

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 14 - 21, 2013.

Drupal News

Great Posts and Tutorials

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Recurring Framework

Split a Views Exposed Form into Multiple Blocks

Migrating Squarespace to Drupal - Part 1: Giant XML File of Doom

Ingesting the Facebook stream using Feeds and OAuth 2.0 (Updated for Drupal 7)

Let’s stop using the issue queues for providing support

Convert SQL Query Into Dynamic Query Using Query Coder Module

Drupal Cyclomatic Complexity

Easily Add Color Support To A Drupal Theme With DesignKit

Interesting New Modules

SEO preview - Lets you preview how your title tag & meta description appear in popular search engines.

Gratis - A really nice look responsive theme

Panels User Override - Dashboards - Let a user override the display of panes for his/her account. It is used to transform Panels into a Dashboard module.

Summary settings - Additional settings for "Long text with summary" widgets, including "always visible" and "summary required"

CKEditor mentions - This plugin for CKEditor will provide 'Facebook-like' mentioning of people in any CKEditor field.

Feeds User Roles - Provides "has role X" targets for use with the Feeds User processor.

Redmine REST API - Integrate Drupal with Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/)

Meteor - Integrates development with Meteor (http://meteor.com/) and Drupal. Meteor is a platform built on Node.JS. Using Meteor, you can specify the layout and basic rules for your data and then let the underlying tools handle real-time updates between users (for example publishing a change from one user to other users, and refreshing everything on their screen that depends on that data).