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Changing the smartmenus breakpoint for Backdrop CMS

The breakpoint for a Smartmens menu to go from displaying only the hamburger to displaying the whole menu is 768px by default. I had a site where I needed the breakpoint to fall at 1120px instead,...

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HTML themes to Backdrop themes

I've been meaning to write up a blog post about how to go from a HTML template (purchased from a place like https://themeforest.net) to a Backdrop theme. As a developer with only a smidge of design...

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Using Cloudflare and Backdrop CMS together

This guide is intended to help people using Cloudflare to speed up and protect their Backdrop CMS sites.Step #1Create two Cloudflare PageRules to exclude the Backdrop cron page and the link to run cron...

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How to move your Backdrop site to Pantheon

When moving from traditional web hosting to managed platform-specific hosting providers like Pantheon, there are often a few tricks you'll need to work around. In this post I'll be documenting the...

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Using MAMP for local Backdrop CMS development

I use MAMP for my local Backdrop development on MacOS.If you would like to do the same, first download the most recent version of MAMP and install it locally. When you are done, you should have...

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How to Update a local copy of a Backdrop site hosted on Pantheon

Today I need to make some updates to one of my Backdrop CMS websites that hasn't been worked on for in a while. This site is hosted on Pantheon. Since I haven't written about how I update my local site...

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A sustainable development workflow for patching Backdrop CMS

If you've been working with Backdrop for a while, you'll notice that sometimes, a particular module, theme, layout template (or sometimes even Backdrop core) doesn't quite work right - or - perhaps it...

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How to choose a Pantheon Plan

Part of my job as a developer is making website hosting recommendations to my clients. To create a list of recommendations, I determine the appropriate plan for the website (or websites) we're working...

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Choose one: Manual updates for Backdrop CMS, or the Pantheon upstream

One of the benefits of hosting a website on Pantheon, is that the dashboard can notify you when there are available updates for the core code of your CMS (Backdrop CMS, Drupal, or WordPress).Pantheon...

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Backdrop CMS configuration files and Git: The versioned staging approach

There are lots of different approaches to managing Backdrop CMS configuration files in Git, but this one is my favorite. It works great for projects with multiple developers, and it can also be easily...

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