Guide

Legacy Site Building for Drupal 7

Legacy Site Building

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Legacy Site Building

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What will you learn

  • Skills for site building in Drupal 7
  • How fields work in Drupal 7
  • An introduction to Views in Drupal 7
  • An introduction to the Rules framework

Overview

This is a guide to our legacy site building tutorial content which was produced for Drupal 7.

Learning resources Drupal 7 site builders

Essential lessons

Advanced concepts

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A reliable backup will allow you to restore your site if something goes wrong.

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Composer is the preferred dependency management solution for PHP, is used by Drupal core, and is becoming increasingly popular for managing the modules and themes used for a Drupal project.

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Content modeling consists of identifying and constructing the different building blocks of data that compose the information on your site.

Drupal 7, 8, 9, and 10
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Entities are the fundamental building blocks that make up any Drupal site. Having a good understanding of the Entity system is an important part of ensuring the data model of your Drupal site is set up properly.

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Many sites require the ability to upload, manage, and display various assets like files, images, videos, and audio.

Layouts

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Drupal 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11
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A layout can describe how various components are arranged on various levels—from an entire page from the header to the footer, to just the “middle” where the dynamic content goes, to individual components. It can apply to templates for managed content or one-off designs for landing pages.

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The Git version control system can help you keep track of changes in your codebase and make sure you don't unintentionally lose work.

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Drush is a command line interface that enables you to interact with your Drupal site without clicking around the graphical user interface (GUI).

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