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Measure node completion in Drupal, part 1

Introducing Content Complete, A CCK-based Drupal module

Ever needed to measure the completeness of your Drupal nodes? Or wanted to motivate your users to complete their content until it reaches a 100%? In this post, I’ll outline the basic configuration of Content Complete, a new Drupal module that does exactly that. Content Complete started as a simple module to show completeness of nodes, but over time has included Rules support to manage complex user flows, dynamic caching and Views integration. In this first post, I’ll guide you through the steps to configure the module, output the percentage of completeness and show you how to theme the percentage bar. In the second post of this series, I’ll show you how to output all this data using Views.

Drupal database backup

Optimize your Drupal database dumps

In order to backup a Drupal site you need to take care of both code and database. The first problem is usually solved by placing the Drupal directory trees under Revision Control. The second requires a more careful analysis, and this post describes optimal stategies for MySQL.