CivicActions

Views 2 Alpha 2 has been released (and it kicks ass), but views is still many patches away from a stable fully-featured release. This is blocking many drupal 5 sites from upgrading to drupal 6. Earl Miles has laid the groundwork and is now calling on the community to help get views 2 out the door.

Download or CVS-checkout views 2, install it, try to replicate your favorite view and see what features are missing or broken -- there are plenty.

A couple of engineers at CivicActions were interested in the Views Bulk Operations module. Me too! So I checked it out.

Easily installed, the most important bit I can tell you about is this:

• clone the view that comes with views_bulk_operations (admin_content)
• in the clone be sure to go to the Filters and select all content types for the Content Type filter (so you can
  see all nodes with the view)
• click Save, then start messing with it!

Robert Douglas of Lullabot wrote a great tutorial on setting up Views Fast Search, a great module that speeds up search on your Drupal site (an oversimplification, but I'll let you read Robert's article for the details).

#138699 from the tagadelic_views issue queue:

Q: Is it possible for the landing page for the terms to be a view itself? so when a term is clicked out you could be taken to a sortable list?

A: A simple question became a complicated answer... You've really asked two questions.

For the first question, that is, to change the landing page for terms, you have the following options: