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Long time Drupal contributor Kevin Walsh died on Tues July 19th, 2022 after being struck by a hit-and-run driver.

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Sometimes you want a View that follows the internal logic of the filters you set up on the View, but also can have some items hand selected or cultivated to the top of the View. Or perhaps the other way to describe it is a Nodequeue View that is backfilled with some other View based logic  so that you end up with a full display regardless of how many items are actually in the Nodequeue.

I use git commit hooks to run my code through code sniffer prior to commit.  If the code is not up to code style standards, the commit fails and you have to go fix it before it will commit.  In some rare instances (kept to a minimum of course) there is code that will just not pass code style review.  In those cases it is best to wrap the code to make it exclude review.

This screen share walks you through why you might want a more powerful way of making blocks and why Codit: Blocks is a good candidate if you need lots of custom blocks.

This is a short screencast showing the basic concept of Codit and Codit: Local and where to place them in a Drupal site.

If you look at the drush file system helpers you see familiar needs met for making directories, moving (renaming) directories, deleting dire

To install a Drupal site into a specific directory, this process works nicely with drush:

Do review you Drupal code for style:
Install coder and enable enable it
drush dl coder
drush en coder

Then to run code style review on any module, cd into the module

Or on a specific file:

Here are some commands for installing drush from the command line

But this is the new preferred way using Composer on *nix