Category: taxonomy

Site building with Drupal 101

Get a crash course in the basics of building a website using Drupal 7 and all the features and functionality baked in to the latest and greatest release of our favorite CMS. In this session we'll...

Using Taxonomy

In this chapter we talk about Drupal's taxonomy system, which is a way to organize our content. We'll walk through the steps to create a new vocabulary, add some terms, and then use it with our...

Building a product catalog with taxonomy

Now that we have some products in our store, we'll look at how we can use Drupal core's Taxonomy system to help us create a catalog based on the type of products we have, and we'll add some menu...

Categorizing content with a term reference field

Goes through the process of creating a hierarchical set of taxonomy terms, and then adding an autocomplete taxonomy term reference field to a content type.

Introduction to Site Building with Drupal

Learn how to install, build and launch a Drupal site by configuring modules, content types, permissions, taxonomy, the theme, blocks, private content and a WYSIWYG editor.

Installing Drupal

Goes through the process of uploading a Drupal installation to a server and filling out all of the default information on the installation screens.

Building an Ooyala View Filtered by Taxonomy

In this lesson, we use the taxonomy that we have created for our videos to create a view of our videos, with an exposed filter that lets users limit the view by taxonomy terms.

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Introduction to Administering Drupal

Learn how to manage the content, community, and functionality of your Drupal site including content types, users, permissions, taxonomy, menus, blocks, themes, input formats and error logs.

Working with Taxonomy and the Ooyala Module

In this lesson, Andrew will walk you through how to use Drupal taxonomy terms with your videos, and to also, importantly have that information synced with your videos in the Ooyala Backlot.

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Orientation to a new Drupal site

Takes a tour of a Drupal 6 site and introduces some of the fundamental concepts of a node, region and block as well as a quick tour through the different administrative sections.

Administering taxonomy

Shows how to add tags to content, update vocabulary, and add terms.

Configuring cron and search

Shows how to set up your server to automatically run cron in order to flush out the caches and automatically do regular maintenance tasks on your Drupal site.

Fantasy Site: Craig's List - DIWD '09

Fantasy Sites | 1h 18m

Craig's List is often mocked for its lack of design and simplicity. However, it has remained one of the most popular sites on the web for almost 10 years. Come see how we cloned the site's...

Administering users

Explains Drupal sites as a multi-user system, how user management works, setting permissions, assigning roles, creating new users.

Building different content types

Looks as the existing content types the come with Drupal core, and then walks through the process of creating your own content type.

Installing and enabling modules

Goes through the process of downloading a module from drupal.org, uploading it to the proper folder on your server, and then how to turn it on and configure it.

Explaining content types

Describes and illustrates different types of content, permissions and default options.

Adding taxonomy fields to content

Shows how to add taxonomy free tags to a piece of content by first generating a new vocabulary and then enabling it on the proper content type.

Administering menus

Discusses menus and paths, organizing and editing menu items, and URL aliases.

Enabling node access and private files

Shows how to provide specific access control to certain nodes, as well set up the private file system.

Configuring WYSIWYG and Input Formats

Goes through the process of installing and configuring the proper permissions and input format filter order to set up a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editor in Drupal.

Enabling modules

Walks through the basic steps of how to enable a module.

Administering themes

Provides an overview of how to configure themes to control the look and feel of a site.

Getting oriented with Drupal

Shows samples of different types of pages, discusses permissions, navigating the administration section, and interface conventions

Configuration settings and report logs

Discusses changing general site settings and what different reports communicate about the health and performance of a site.

Administering content

Discusses managing content generated by internal sources as well as users, and user management.

Strategies for finding modules

Goes over some best practices for how to search, find, and evaluate modules in the Drupal contrib repository.

Installing custom themes

Goes through the process of downloading free themes from drupal.org, uploading them to the proper place on your sever, and then how to change the look and feel of your site by enabling different...

Upgrading and updating your Drupal site

Shows the different workflows in order to update your Drupal site with minor security releases, as well as the more involved workflow for updating Drupal to a new major release.

Administering Drupal Review

Overview of how to manage the content, community, and functionality of your Drupal site including content types, users, permissions, taxonomy, menus, blocks, themes, input formats and error logs...

Administering blocks

Illustrates how to create and manage blocks and change visibility settings to manage how sites look and behave.

Creating content

Shows how to create and edit different types of content for a site and adding menu items.

Creating listing pages

Jeff Robbins provides a brief overview of creating listing pages with the views module.

Images and input formats

Illustrates the basics of adding images and videos to a site.

Configuring blocks

Shows how to display customized information in the sidebars through added different blocks on the entire site or on specific pages.

Getting help for your Drupal site

Provides online resources to get information to keep a site running smoothly.

Site Building with Drupal Review

Reviews all of the information covered in the Site Building with Drupal video series.

Preparing to launch a site

Goes through all of the last-minute performance optimization and security settings that you should set up right before launching a Drupal site.

Creating user roles and permissions

Creates different user roles, and then walks through the process of assigning different access control and permissions to those each of these roles.

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