If you're reading this post, it is probably because you desire an easier way to insert a simple icon into your Drupal site. Many times, this involves adding an icon library into your theme and doing some pretty undesirable pre-processing or template overrides to insert them where you want. Let's find a better way.

Over the years, I have noticed a significant increase in the need for businesses to create user dashboards. As more clients ask for user-driven websites that provide user-specific information, the need to relate or reference various types of content/data together is becoming commonplace.

I've been telling people for years that if you just want a blog, WordPress is a great option. Twitter's decision to use Drupal as a blog makes me wonder a bit. Why would a company with their development and technical expertise choose Drupal vs WordPress if they're just building a blog?

If you have ever worked with Search API, Facet API, and Solr, you know how awesome and powerful these tools are, especially when combined with Views. Unfortunately the way it works, sometimes you're forced to build some things a little bit differently to get around some of these pitfalls. Sadly, I haven't seen one piece of documentation on the Facet Block views plugin, and it took me awhile to figure out that the hell it was there for, so I'm sharing my research with the people of the internet.