Kristi Wachter - Drupal Consultant

My job is to make life easier for my clients.

Recent Blog Posts

The best colors for link text

When I'm creating a new website, I have a lot of decisions to make about the theme. I am not a designer, so I usually just find a decent starter theme and make some small changes.

On a recent project - The Democracy Habit - I needed to decide what color to use for text links.

I want to make my sites as accessible as possible, so I started with that as a guideline, then looked for recommendations based on solid research about both accessibility and usability.

Talkwalker - this is not transparent pricing

I came across some info on a service called Talkwalker recently; it sounded like a possible alternative to Google Alerts for monitoring topics I'm interested in.

They have a free tier, which is nice:

https://www.talkwalker.com/free-social-media-monitoring-analytics-tools

But I wanted to know what the paid version would cost; that's always one of the first things I need to know about a tool I'm considering.

Their pricing page trumpets "Simple and transparent pricing":

Using Paragraph view modes

One of my clients is migrating a Drupal 7 site to modern Drupal, and a particular challenge is moving from Views that use field collections to using paragraphs.

One paragraph type, linkcollections, is themed differently on different types of pages. On pages aimed at kids, the links get icons and are color coded; on pages aimed at older readers, there are no icons, and all the entries are the same color.

It took some experimentation to figure out how to set things up to accommodate both kinds of collections.

libmysqlclient driver version 3.3.2

I recently worked on a Drupal site that was showing this error:

10.6.10-MariaDB-log

The libmysqlclient driver version 3.3.2 is less than the minimum required version. Upgrade to libmysqlclient version 5.5.3 or up, or alternatively switch mysql drivers to MySQLnd version 5.0.9 or up.

I tried searching for

drupal "libmysqlclient driver version 3.3.2" "minimum required"