Category Archives: CMS

A fix for Drupal 8’s broken preview

Drupal, Tips & Tricks

Drupal 8 is still beta-ish in so many aspects, that “workarounds” is becoming a separate genre of Drupal development tips and tricks. 

The today’s workaround is for the bug in “node preview” functionality. It is not frequently used, but can be rather convenient for large websites with moderation enabled. The bug can be spotted only when CSS styles, applied to the  node/page template rely on the  <body> CSS classes,  namely the core-added  page-node-type-[node bundle] body class. It helps to effectively distinguish different node templates, and therefore are widely relied on by front-end developers. However, in preview mode, this class appears entirely missing, which breaks the styling.

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A Drupal Tune-up for the Bike Club

Clients, CSS, Drupal, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, New York City, PHP

Five Borough Bicycle ClubWe spend a good deal of time touting our work for “bigger” clients – but we take just as much pride in our work for the “smaller” ones. Over the years we have done lots of work for non-profits like NYC Swim and the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation and we’re pleased to have  recently added the Five Boroughs Bicycle Club to our client roster.

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Drupal 8 Migration: Field Updates

Drupal, Tips & Tricks

By default, the migrate module in Drupal 8 updates existing nodes by completely overwriting all the fields in the target node with the data from the migration. But what if your client has modified content on the target (D8) system, and still wants to update the content with newly-mapped fields? For instance, there is a “description” that has been updated after the first migration, but now the client wants “subtitle” field to be migrated (which was empty or not present during the first pass), without overwriting the description field changes. Continue reading →

Drupal 8 migration: taxonomy term lookups

Drupal

By resorting to YAML files for configuration, Drupal 8 achieved a huge boost in flexibility and understandability of the parameters. Even more it is useful for such a “commonly uncommon” task as migration.

Indeed, in D7 you had a set of forms to match source to destination, using some limited set of processing options. Now, in D8, these three stages of migration are totally separated out, unleashing a (nearly) unlimited power of building processing pipes and referencing other migrations. Continue reading →

Fake WordPress API Malware Alert

Data Privacy, Internet Security, WordPress

WorePress logoAlthough WannaCry, the massive worldwide ransomeware attack, is the biggest story these days when it comes to cyber crime, it’s definitely not the only issue causing problems for sites right now.

Last week, website security leader Sucuri identified code that appears to be WordPress API related, but is actually sending active cookie data to attackers. This is most problematic when the active user is a site admin because it gives someone the opportunity to create a new admin user which can be then used to do considerable damage to a site and/or gain access to user data.

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Want 11 CDs for free?

Angular.js, Apple, Clients, Community, CSS, Drupal, Extracurricular, Front-end, HTML, JavaScript, React.js

HTML for DummiesIt was completely unexpected. Out-of-the-blue I was asked today by one of my co-workers to write a blog post. I thought hard about which new front-end development tools I have been using lately, but couldn’t think of anything that had had a significant impact on my professional life recently. Then I looked at today’s date and I realized that it is my 20-year anniversary here at Boyle Software. These twenty years certainly had a significant impact on my life…

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WordPress Security Breach

Internet Security, WordPress

WorePress logoWe’re seeing reports this morning that a massive security breach associated with WordPress 4.7.0 and 4.7.1 has apparently led to the defacement of up to 1.9 million pages across almost 40,000 domains.

Upgrading to version 4.7.2 should fix the issue and WordPress urges anyone who hasn’t already updated to do so immediately. WordPress actually announced the security issue in a blog post at the beginning of February, but apparently there are still many sites that either weren’t aware or didn’t realize how serious the issue really is.

If you or anyone you know is running a WordPress site, please make sure it is updated to 4.7.2 as quickly as possible.

Floating (and coding) on Cloud9

Cloud Computing, Cloud9, IDEs, Java, JavaScript, MongoDB, MySQL, Node.js, PHP, PostgreSQL, Python, Tips & Tricks, WordPress

Cloud9 logoI was always a bit skeptical of the whole Cloud IDE thing, that was until recently when I gave Cloud9 a shot. I must admit, I was surprised when I read the Engineering Orientation wiki page for one of our clients, Vroom.com, as it suggested I create a Cloud9 IDE account as part of my project setup. What??

I figured I’d give it a try…

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Ready to sweat for RhinoCo Fitness

Android, App Development, Clients, Drupal, iOS

RhinoCo logoWe are excited to announce that Boyle Software has started working with RhinoCo Fitness on exciting new projects.

RhinoCo Fitness was founded in 2007 with the goal of making fitness more accessible by using connected technology to deliver essential tools, supplements, and training programs to people across the world. In 2010 RhinoCo partnered with Reebok to open the first Reebok Crossfit Gym, which quickly became the highest-grossing retail store for Reebok and a world-renowned fitness center for RhinoCo.

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