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Hate the new DA theme left sidebar
As per Drupal's updated site theme is ready for testing! the new theme is now live.
Don't like the new left sidebar, I find it distracting, what can I do?
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Why is my Question still on hold after editing it extensively?
I have asked the following question : How to redirect a User to a predefined URL next to a VBO (Views Bulk Operation) Operation?
... and was put on hold on nov.13 by kiamlaluno.
I have extensively ...
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Should we accept Drupal DevOPs questions?
Generally, nowadays, it seems that Drupal dev-ops is an important topic.
I think that, since Drupal dev-ops becomes such useful and save so much time, we should accept questions about Drupal dev-ops.
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Why was my edit rejected again?
I'd like to know why my original edit was rejected again, even though I asked to give some time to the user who posted it to review it.
Was there anything "factually wrong" in my edit?
It ...
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Drupal's updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Add "Bugs must be reported on drupal.org" as close reason
When there are issues like Metatag images don't work anymore after updating to Drupal 8.6 I tend to close-vote them and giving off-topic because ... > Questions asking to recommend or find a book, ...
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Is it appropriate to ask about DrupalCon in the context of Community involvement?
The question "What is the company that will organize DrupalCon Europe 2019?" was voted down and then put on hold.
Upon revisiting the existing guidelines, it seems that the question is valid....
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Can I add my question to an existing question?
I am having difficulties following some steps of an answer to an existing question. Can I add my question to an existing question? If not, how can I get clarifications.
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Code of conduct popup screws up header background
I've noticed when logged out, the code of conduct popup screws up DA's header background.
Closing the popup fixes the issue, but looking at other SE sites, they don't have this popup background issue....
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Do not consider field, field-formatter and entity-reference tags as a synonym of entities
I recently noticed that tags field, field-formatter, and entity-reference have recently all been marked as a synonym of the entity tag.
To the extend it is needed, here are my 2 cents about how I ...
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Community poll: Time for moderator elections?
I've been on this site for over 4 years, and there hasn't been an election held. From my research, seems there hasn't been one for DA since 2012.
I've nothing personal against them, and I hope they ...
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I'd like to delete this question but I can't
Can you delete Assign an action to a simple button? I posted code I shouldn't have.
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What can be done to make Drupal Answers more useful to Drupal 8 users?
Drupal Answers is a great resource, but a lot of the archive is not relevant to Drupal 8.
Searching for answers is troublesome, because much of the content is applies to earlier versions of Drupal ...
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Question Templates
I was a little bit more active on DA since a while. And I observed that it seems necessary to flag quite a large percentage of new questions to be closed as "too broad" or "unclear what you're asking"....
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Prolong bounty period
I have a question that has not received enough attention and therefor I created a bounty for it. Now I have got a couple of answer which seems very promising, but I am still trying things out and also ...
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Is this question too similar to another to ask? How should I handle a situation like this?
I asked this question: How to check if an entity bundle has a field?, but soon realized there was another very similar question: Get all fields defined in a bundle. I ended up answering my own ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]
It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now!
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Can I use the code I found in a question for my Drupal site?
Can I use the code shown in the answer for How can I add a CSS class to the body tag based on the current path alias? in a Drupal site?
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Enable Community Promotion Ads for 2018 [duplicate]
Quote from "Community Promotion Ads - 2017":
We reset the ads once a year, every December.
And another one from it:
It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second ...
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Winter Bash 2017 [duplicate]
It's that time of year again. Last year, we participated and enjoy most. Hopefully, There are more fun this year.
For those that don't remember, users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing ...
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Unable to set drupal_set_message() after logout redirect marked wrong and no fix available
The question "Unable to set drupal_set_message() after logout redirect" got marked as a duplicate of a Drupal 7 issue, while this question is for Drupal 8.
I do not have enough rep points to do ...
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Why are the Community promotion ads 2017 no longer showing up?
Unless I'm missing something, I have the impression that none of the qualifying "Community Promotion Ads - 2017" are being displayed on drupal.SE, and this for (I estimate) about 1 to 2 weeks already.
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Best practice to improve own answer
If someone posts a detailed answer, with step by step, screen captures... gets votes, and it occurs that :
the answer doesn't solves fully the issue
the answerer finds the exact solution
but that ...
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How can I edit my post?
I want to edit my answer in this post and add newer solution and more details to it.
Please help me.
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Why was my rude/abusive flag declined?
Yesterday, I flagged two answers on this question as rude/abusive. Both answers were by the same user (now deleted), one of them contained gibberish of the 'cat-on-keyboard' type:
[';'...
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Please tell me why so many SE regulars, are in such a hurry to edit other people's questions?
As a regular user I ask this question politely; but please tell me why so many SE regulars are in such a hurry to edit other people's questions?
Excuse my cynisism, but is this just a self-serving ...
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Re-create the "message" tag (or create a "message-stack" tag)
Modules with a dedicated tag
Tags such as views, rules, userpoints, features, quiz, webform, panels, feeds, ... etc are all tags named according to the Drupal module they are about. One could say "...
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What to do with questions that show no (relevant) effort?
This might be related to Very poor quality questions everywhere (like panels everywhere but without the magical feeling...) But I do not believe to be exactly the same.
I believe that I am recently ...
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Questions asking about the "Drupal Way"
I feel that the Drupal vs Wordpress debate is similar in one aspect to the Python vs Perl debate: "One way to do it" (Drupal) vs "More than one way to do it" (Wordpress).
Especially in Drupal 8, ...
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I lost bronze badges!
I have seen that my badges count(badges) = count(badges)-1.
The badges also can taken away like the reputation.
I just lost one bronze badges.
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Is there a way to contact other users?
There is a user here on the site whom I'd like to contact about something entirely unrelated to Drupal - he lives in/near my hometown. Is there a private message system or an email system? I looked on ...
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Can you appeal an edit rejection?
I sometimes edit questions for clarity and add information when necessary after further understanding the user when they explain in the comments, but I also tend to add the 8 or 7 tag to posts that ...
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Do website usernames indicate spam?
Disclaimer: I'm only an active contributor to Charcoal SE project. Prior to flagging my first spam here, I didn't even know "Drupal" can be a word.
I had my first declined flag on Drupal, and it's ...
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What's the proper way to indicate Drupal version [duplicate]
I actually had two separate users tell me they wished I had provided context about the version I was inquiring about on this question: How to sum two fields
One user even told me to tag it 7.
To ...
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How did 'module' end up as synonym for the '7' tag?
I figured the term extension as used in Drupal 8 does not exist here yet. So I felt it would make sense to map it as a synonym for module.
Surprisingly I noticed that module was already mapped as ...
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Why is my question put on hold?
I have a question about this: How to change the default view of the "extend" page in a custom administration theme
Can you tell me why my question is put on hold or voted for closing ?
I ...
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are recommendation questions allowed re: tutorials?
if I were to ask for "what's the best tutorial or website to learn Drupal AJAX implementations" -- that's not allowed, right?
This site is more for very specific, Drupal-only questions that don't ...
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Help Save the DVT!
Drupal Version Tags (= DVT ) are the tags such as 6, 7, 8. If you haven't heard about the guidance from the moderators about using Drupal version tags in questions, read what's written in the ...
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Version Tags in 2017 and onward
In How do we want to handle questions with radically different answers for Drupal 7 (and lower) and Drupal 8 (and higher)?, we solicited thoughts on how we as a community want to handle the fact that ...
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Add Software Recommendations as migration path
One of the reasons mentioned on the voting-to-close dialog is like so:
Questions asking to recommend or find a book, tool, module, theme, distribution, tutorial, or other off-site resource are off-...
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Can we have a mysql tag?
I think that we should have a mysql tag, because sometimes we are facing problems with specifics databases systems.
For example, see the question Why we need the key property in the Upsert class if ...
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When is it appropriate to use tag 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9?
There are various flavors of questions about using Drupal release tags, more specifically these tags: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
However I continue to struggle with when it is appropriate to actually use any ...
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What's the real problem with downvoting spam?
Quote from some comments in the question "Spam post should not be upvoted!":
Don't downvote spam. Just use the spam flag, and not another one. It may seem counterintuitive, but downvoting can make ...
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Where to draw the line to post an answer that is not really what the question is about?
The question "Create rule to Set Default Value" is obviously (IMO) a question about the Rules module. However, the (now accepted) answer to it starts like so:
You can implement ...
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Users want to help to solve bugs - but the questions are put on hold. Please help
This question
https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/227842/how-to-hide-userdata-of-deleted-users-in-reply-module
is about a bug in the reply module.
I am very sure that stackexchange users want ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2017
It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion ...
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How do we want to handle questions about unstable/incomplete contributed modules for D8?
Have a look at this recent comment, which include this:
... debugging sites in-situ can't be supported by Q+A, because as soon as you fix the issue the question ceases to make sense.
I do agree ...
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What to do with questions regarding server configuration?
I have seen some question regarding server configurations, for instance "How do I install [apache|nginx|letsencrypt]?". These questions are obviously not related to Drupal. There is however also no a ...
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Is it acceptable to preemptively post a Q + A to "advertise" a module?
Assuming I maintain or know a contrib module that solves a specific problem, which has not been expressed as a question on this site yet.
Is it acceptable to post a question + answer that expresses ...
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How does deleting a question impact the reputation of each user who answered it?
Today this question, from Jan 7, 2013 got deleted (by a mod). It appears that:
The author of the question lost all points earned for the question.
I lost the points earned for my (recent) answer.
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