Klaas Bals' Blog

Mijn zusje heeft een website/blog gemaakt waar ze op kleine schaal zelfgemaakte spulletjes verkoopt. Allemaal unieke stukken, en meestal op kinderen afgestemd. Van meubeltjes tot kleertjes en bavetjes. Allen daarheen.

I'm waiting to upgrade to Drupal 6 until all of the modules I use are available.

Here is the list of Drupal modules I currently use, with their status:

Backup

Not yet available. It doesn't look like it's still very active, I may need to find another solution (like switching to Backup and Migrate or something else). This is not of vital importance, I can organize my backup in another way.

Comment RSS

Available since 2008-04-29!

Global Redirect

In development

Google Analytics

Available since 2008-02-15!

Mollom

Available since 2008-05-01!

Pathauto

Available since 2008-04-30!

Technorati

Not yet available.

Token

Available since 2008-02-23

Update status

This is now a part of Drupal core, so no module needed anymore.

An then I would like to use:

OpenID URL

Available since 2009-03-09

Drupal Administration Menu

In development.

In general, this looks very good, and I guess, I can start trying to migrate. I'm a bit worried by the Global Redirect Module as I really like that one. I may want to look at the reliability of the current development version, or search for alternatives as, with Drupal Modules, I never know whether I'm using the good one or if alternatives are available.

Who knows, if I manage to find me some free time, I can try to update some modules myself.

A while ago I turned on comment moderation, as the spam module I am using (Mollom), had a couple of problems at the time. This way way back, before mollom was actually released, so I was one of the first users.

Now, Mollom is officailly available, and the quality of the filtering is very good, so I'll turn off moderation again. (Thanks Litrik for prodding me to do this.)

This does mean I need to check the comments on my site regularly for quality. I may want to allow other people I know to flag messages as spam, if it turns out I monitor my site less frequently than the people reading my site. Let's wait and see...

Anyone knows what Norio means? Aaahh, Man of principles...

Congratulations with your new business Litrik. Norio is indeed a perfect match for you!

Now I hope you will host your new site with Drupal!

I'm sorry folks, but as I'm having far too many spam comments the last couple of weeks, I have turned on comment moderation. I did have a anti-spam system, but for some reason it doesn't seem to catch enough, or perhaps I demand too much from such as system... (it does capture about 150 spam comments a day, but on average 1 a day was passed through). I'll see what I can do when I'll have more time.

As Litrik had some problems, that apparently have been solved already I did some searches there...

Apparently when you search for discovery3, the four videos that are shown in the "featured" tab are all created by me. But to find a blog post from me in the "posts" tab, entries from me are only shown on page 3.

Whatever...

Update: I installed the Drupal Technorati module, so maybe that will help me get higher in the "posts" tab?

Update 2: Ok, the list of posts is just sorted by date. The other posts before me are more recent. Duh...

Dries gave me some Drupal code to show the topics/tags that I write about and that are used on my website. This will help me keeping my tags clean (or make them cleaner ;-).

My website got abused to post hundreds of spam comments. I think I found and removed them all.

From now on, you need to register before you can post comments. Sorry for the inconvenience. Once the captcha module also works with Drupal 5.0, I'll probably make registration optional again.