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As mentioned in my Ubuntu 16.04 and Drupal 7 article, the Ubuntu 16 LTS version has some nice upgrades, including PHP 7, MySQL 5.7, Nginx 1.10, Apache 2.4.18, and MariaDB 10.0.x. Let's see if we can make it work with Nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, and Drupal 8, using the Redis key-value store as the backend cache instead of Drupal's cache tables. The procedure is largely the same as before, with a few differences for the new Drupal version.

Like jQuery, the jQuery UI user interface library (version 1.8.7) is already included and registered by the system module of Drupal 7. All you need to do is enable it.

You can include jQuery UI in the PHP editor of a single node or module:

So I recently migrated my web site to Drupal after running it in WordPress for several years. Not surprisingly for a redesign where all the URLs changed and much content was added, my traffic numbers cratered, but after some tinkering they've gone back up again. After this little experiment with SEO, here are some things I'd recommend to draw traffic to your Drupal site.

So you want to add a block to your module in Drupal 7. First, define its internal name and human-readable title (for the Blocks UI) with hook_block_info():