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,...
View ArticleHTML 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...
View ArticleUsing 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleUsing 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleChoose 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...
View ArticleBackdrop 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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