Rezzable.com's Drupal 7 Makeover (an ongoing endeavour)

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published by Ann on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 13:08

Rezzable.com needed a (serious) makeover - actually a from-the-ground-up new site, and we've decided to go with the freshly released Drupal 7 (and to not mention the 'SL' word if it can be avoided).  Although the release is about two weeks old, we're definitely not the only ones who opted to go with 7, rather than the more matured and familiar Drupal 6.  Usage statistics for 7 show already 23,257 installs.  No doubt many of those are 'test versions', but still, an impressive number. 

Despite the #D7CX 'I pledge that [insert project name] will have a full Drupal 7 release on the day that Drupal 7 is released' promises' Contrib Experience pledge, quite a bit of modules are still 'out there' (opposed as to available for 7).  Here's the state of things now*: 

Drupal 7 Community Contributed Modules Currently Installed on Rezzable.com

Release Candidates (RC)
Beta Release
  • AddToAny 7.x-1.0-beta1  (update available)
    With some additional script:
    a2a_config.track_links = 'googl'; (gets rid of the bit.ly link & @addthis reference)
    a2a_config.prioritize = ["facebook", "twitter"]; (sets Facebook and Twitter as first options)
    a2a_config.templates = { twitter: "Check out ${title} ${link} @Rezzable" };(adds an @Rezzable reference to the default twitter message)
    a2a_config.no_3p = 1;(disables the media6degrees tracking pixel)
  • Pathauto 7.x-1.0-beta1
Alpha Releases
Development Releases
  • References 7.x-2.x-dev (previously known as Node Reference & User Reference)
  • ImageCache Profile Pictures 7.x-1.x-dev (update available)
  • Google Analytics 7.x-1.x-dev (update available)
  • Views 7.x-3.x-dev
    There's an alpha1 available, which adds an annoying space in front of assigned classes. Dev works OK, as long as you don't change the machine name of one of your views.

Need to Install

Waiting For Drupal 7 Ports

Arrrrghhh! Where art thou?
  • XML Sitemap (including Google News Sitemap)
    Don't bother trying 7.x-2.0-beta1, it is instant fail. The 7.x-2.x-dev Jan 10 build isn't very cooperative either.
  • Relevant Content 7.x-1.x-dev (or another module that does relevance? Similar by Terms? Use Solr?)

Not that urgent

Would have been nice...

Curious to test

Notes to self: re-update PHP (downgraded because it broke the previous rezzable.com), read the release notes/changelog, add in subscribe to newsletter field, move theme to sites/default

* Writing this Friday evening, not the least to not loose track of where I'm at with the site. But surely, the Drupal 7 contributed modules landscape will look way different by Monday morning.

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Winter (not verified)

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 16:06

This makes me really sad that you deleted all the previous content, Ann. A lot of love went into this blog from many people. Was there no way to archive it all in a seperate link? I know that Rezzable doesn't want to be associated with "that SL word" any more but it's hard to deny that that is where you started out. The people that blogged here... there was always real people behind those avatars, who believed in Rezzable and showed their pride in this company. Just like Vint Falken did. That's why I'm putting my name to this and not being anonymous.

Best of luck in your future endeavours, Ann and Meral.

Winter Jefferson/Justin G.

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Ann

Thu, 02/17/2011 - 17:30

Hi Winter

It is archived (html spider/rip) but not yet online.   I'll drop you an email when the archive/backup is back up/online!

Ann

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