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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

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 own customized URL. Remember to have the module installed using composer together with the Redirect Module and Pathauto module to get desired results. This gives taxonomy terms having their own urls a meaning. Okay, let's proceed to the Nitty Gritty Of This Post; Using the Redirect Module one can construct a URL Alias
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