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Simplified: How to fix SearchApiException error while trying to index items

Solution for Drupal\search_api\SearchApiException while trying to index items on index... Could not index items on index....because pending server tasks could not be executed. in Drupal\search_api\Entity\Server->indexItems() (line 353 of.../search_api/src/Entity/Server.php or Drupal\search_api\SearchApiException: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found:....search_api_db_default_index_sticky' doesn't exist: TRUNCATE "search_api_db_default_index_sticky";
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Acquia Cloud IDE for Drupal Development

On June 30th 2021, Acquia ceased further development of their Dev Desktop 2 software. Advantages of Acquia Cloud IDE and cheaper alternatives to Acquia Cloud IDE shall be discussed. With Cloud IDE (Cloud Integrated Development Environment); -Since this is a managed machine hosted environment, you don't have to worry about software environments as everyone is always on the same setup -Development is done in a web browser tab. (Yes you heard it right everything from IDE to command line right in your web browser) -It's not limited by the speed of your laptop -Almost as fast as bare metal -Composer install is super fast -Config export/import is much faster -Refreshing databases from up stream is much faster (can be done in just minutes)
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Creating a responsive video using FitVids and Drupal Core Media

Migrating from Media Entity to Drupal Core Media is not really a seamless process for some people. One of the main issues I ran into was enabling my FitVids JS library to control display of responsive videos.I accomplished it by using this simple work around; Add as the domain under the FitVids configuration of other providers ( /media/oembed) as shown in the screenshot below
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Recommendation of Servers for Drupal Hosting

This isn’t a no brainer. My Drupal Sites were creating close to 950k iNode count ????and soon hitting that scary 1M iNode limit ????. Well I even had one of my Wordpress friends call me close stupid for not choosing siteground traditional shared hosting. His argument was about them being fast in customer response and.. well... $price$. Trust me with the hidden limitation to shared hosting SiteGround offers, I wasn’t buying into it to leave my beloved hostgator shared with no limits at all. I clearly noticed the difference between a Wordpress person and a Developer…Anyways truth is a non
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How to Create a Custom Taxonomy Term URL Using Drupal 8,9,10, and 11

In this blog, we are going to create a taxonomy vocabulary in Drupal, Create a URL Alias for the Vocabulary using the Redirect Module, Create a view that renders taxonomy terms, then use the Taxonomy Views Integrator to reference our created Views Page to render the filtered term using pre-configured views arguments. The first Step Here is to ensure you have TVI (Total Views Inetegrator) installed. Reason i love this module is that it gives you ability to customize views displays, listing each taxonomy vocabulary or term or even children of parent terms in a Drupal Views page display with its
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