Drupal maintenance with Drush

rrs@researchut.com (Ritesh Raj Sarraf) — Thu, 14 May 2015 09:10:14 -0400

Another of my articles for self. Writing it down on the website is much better than pushing it on a 3rd party social site. Your data is yours.

My site runs on Drupal. Given I’m not a web designer, it is not my core area. Thus I’ve always wanted to have minimal engagement with it. My practices have paid me well so far. And I should thank all the free tools that help do that. I like to keep a running snapshot of my website on my local laptop, to keep it handy when trying anything new. This means that the setup has to be almost identical to what is running remotely.

Thanks to Drush, managing Drupal is very easy. It allows me to easily try to out changes and push them from dev = > staging => live withtout too much effort. It also helps me control the environment well. And since the whole transport is over SSH, no separate exceptions are required.

For long, the theme on my site had some issues. The taxonomy terms did not have proper spacing. See bug for details.

With the fix, this transformed into:

I wish Drush had support for revision control. Or maybe it already has, and I need to check ? Bug Fixes and Customizations would have been well recorded with a revision control system.

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Drupal maintenance with Drush