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I recently fell victim to a badly configured web site, and had to delete quiet a lot of spam.

Do this by hand was painful, so I searched for a more elegent solution. With the help of http://knackforge.com/blog/sivaji/how-bulk-delete-drupal-nodes-drush-script I put together a script for Drupal 6. The script removes all nodes created by users with a user ID greater than 2.

I am testing the upgrade of a D6 site to D7. The D6 site was probable installed using acquila - and thus having profile name of acquila. As I have not installed/used acquila on the D7 site, the acquila profile is not available.

I debugged the process and could see in install.inc

but acquila was not enabled neither as a profile or as a module. So, I played with the variable table and deleted the 'installed_profile' variable - the default is ' standard' -- but standard was not enabled as a profile.

Having a few sites to update after each module upgrade prompted me to start using drush to help me. I have a few D6 web sites and a growing number of D7 sites. The following script helps me to update the database for all sites when needed.

I have a Drupal theme, basicamaths - thanks to Khoi Vinh for creating it - and I have ported the theme from WordPress to Drupal. I have a few computers, and I need to be able to access the source code from all of them. The easiest solution I have found is to set up a GIT repository on my local NAS and store the source code there.

This is what I have done.

For variuos readons I need ImageMagick. Finding a good package can be problematic, and finding one that has all the re-requisites can be even more problematic.

libjpeg

I downloaded libjpeg, extracted the source and
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

libpng

Again, I found the source for libpng and
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

I have never used the Expression Engine (EE) before, so this is a complete experiment. Let's see how it goes...

page.tpl.php

From what I can see, EE has a file called index.txt that displays almost everything. This file is our page.tpl.php candidate.

• Remove the {assign_variable:master_weblog_name="journal"}
{assign_variable:main_template_group="bartelme"} from the beginning of the index.txt file

The example WP theme I am trying to use is sodelicious_black.

page.tpl.php

Combine header.php, page.php and footer.php into on new file called page.tpl.php. In this new page.tpl.php file: