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Accidents happen. Accidents can raid your backup storage, production and other site versions. You can accidentally forget to set up regular backups (ò_ô). Whatever adversity hits you sometimes you have to face the difficult situation of having only raw mysql folder from a hard drive to show for your data, and no healthy database export.

Luckily there is a way to recover the data if you know the steps and you're careful enough. This article documents this process.

The default Views Exposed Filter format for Date fields (for example the Authored on field) leaves a lot to be desired in terms of usability.

This can be greatly improved with one of two additional modules—Better Exposed Filters if you're already using it for other parts of your site, or Date Popup for a superior experience.

Many websites are tagging their content with more than one category term. Listing other content marked with the same term is a very common task in Drupal. But with a multi-valued field storing more than one Category on a single article things are a bit more complicated.

Complexity increases with the request to sort the list by relevancy, showing the most relevant related content on top of the list (the articles that share more of the same tags).

This article lists the steps in Drupal 8 Views to create a list of related content titles sorted by the number of tags shared with the content currently viewed.

Flags are as useful as ever in Drupal 8. This article lists the most common configuration steps to get the complete Bookmarks Flags feature set in your Drupal site.

Not every Drupal project will have all the Drupal-specific elements, but it's good to go through the check-list and make sure you haven't missed any elements to style when creating a new Drupal theme.