Drupal Content Editing/Site Building
Those who do not need the full, 5-day Drupal Developer Immersion experience, now have the opportunity to sign up for this 2-day segment, which provides an introduction to the essential skills necessary for managing and editing content and configuring a Drupal website. Hands-on labs will include work with Content Types, Taxonomy, Views, Menus and many useful modules.
Course Outline
Site Building Day 1
- Under the Hood of a Simple Website
- Setting up a local environment
- Getting Started: Drupal Overview
- What is Drupal?
- What Features Does Drupal 9 Offer?
- Important Drupal Terminology
- Drupal 9 Administration Toolbar
- Content Types and Content Modeling
- Structured Content Types
- Custom Content Types and Fields
- Categorize Content with Taxonomy
- Understanding Content Workflows
- User Roles and Permissions
- Creating Roles and Assigning Permissions
- Account Registration Settings
- The Authenticated User Registration Form
- Creating a Content Editor Account via Administrator
Site Building Day 2
- Building What Appears on the Page
- Page Layouts with Blocks
- Custom Blocks
- Building Dynamic Lists of Content with Views
- Views Displays
- Custom URL Aliases
- Configuration Synchronization
- Building Complex Views
- Contextual Filters
- Relationships
- Exposing Filter Options to Visitors
- Creating a View that Returns a List of Content in JSON
- Fielding Entities and Managing Displays
- Review Adding Fields to a Content Type
- Adding Fields to a Content Type
- Adding Fields to a Taxonomy Term
- Adding Fields to Block Types
- Review Display Modes
- Images and Display
- drupal.org and Extending Drupal
- drupal.org Community Resources
- Extending Drupal with Modules
- Using Themes
Recommended Experience
A basic understanding of the following technologies is helpful, but not required:
- Authoring content using a Content Management system
- Experience with Drupal's administrative interface
Should I Take this Course?
This course is perfect for those who are:
- Newly responsible for a Drupal website,
- Planning to build a new site in Drupal,
- Preparing for delivery of a new Drupal development, or
- Looking to firm up Acquia best practice knowledge for Drupal Certification.