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This article contains a detailed instruction on how to setup the Entity Translation module for Drupal 7 websites.
Entity Translation is part of Drupal 8 core and its approach is to translate fields instead of full nodes/entities.

Goal of this tutorial is to set up a multilingual website that can be navigated in multiple languages by visitors and to enable the content to be easily manageable by editors / cms administrators.
To get multilingual right, it’s critical that you configure your content-types and fields with care and precision and upfront, because if content is already in your database it is almost impossible to change these configurations.
So let's go.

Recently I was building a Drupal site with Display Suite, Entity Reference and Bootstrap. In this blog I want to share why that combination and some tricks I used to get a great frontend and editor-UX.

I recently installed 2 modules (Commerce Store and Commerce Marketplace) as an exploration to run a multiseller shop with Drupal Commerce. In this article I share my results and opinion about these two modules.

Cron processes feeds in chunks. The default chunk size of 50 is extremely small. Just add this line to your settings.php file to change the chunk size.

Cron runs Drupal background processes. For example it is used by the update module to check if there are security updates.

Drupal is a versitale framework for building almost any type of website. Now Google Reader will stop in July 2013 you need a replacement. Why not build it yourself?

What is Drush Make? A method to deploy Drupal Installations. Contains a definition of your modules, themes and libraries. From an empty folder Drush Make downloads the contrib from drupal.org. Drush Make also creates make-scripts for your Drupal Website.

Today I was cleaning up my bookmarks. These are my 'dev tools' links.

Just few years ago Google Maps was the only option to go for. A big disadvantage is that a lot of 'smart' things happens on Google's side. Therefore it was difficult to really engage location information about users and content on your Drupal site.
Nowdays (2013) things has changed. You can do all your location thingies in and with Drupal and OpenSource. In this (series of) post(s) I'll try to inform you about my ride through Drupal mapping.

for a dta field tutorial.

filename namespacing follow drupal structure:
entity-bundle--field-formatter

Examples for Core Drupal Entities:
node-page--body-text
user-editor--mail-text

term-brands--logo-image