Drupal Guides
Learn Drupal site building, theming, and development with Drupalize.Me
In these guides, you will learn:
- What is Drupal?
- How do I build or manage a Drupal site?
- How do I create themes for Drupal?
- How do I extend Drupal's functionality?
- How do I migrate or upgrade my site to the latest Drupal version?
- How do I prep for an Acquia certification exam?
Find your Drupal path
Are you new to Drupal or updating your skills? Start with the Drupal User Guide or the Drupal Module Developer Guide, both hands-on guides which will get you up-to-speed on buiding and developing modern Drupal sites. Learn to work with Drupal themes in our guide to Frontend Theming.
Build and configure Drupal sites
These guides walk you through installing Drupal, managing content and users, adding contributed modules, building views, layouts, and managing media through Drupal's in-browser administrative interface.
Site building guides:
Install and Keep Drupal Up-To-Date
These guides walk you through installing Drupal locally with DDEV, updating Drupal to the next minor, security, or bug fix version, and upgrading Drupal to the next major version.
Install, Update, or Upgrade Drupal Guides:
Manage Drupal sites
Learn how to manage configuration changes, configure search, set up content workflows, improve site performance, and more.
Site administration courses:
Work with Drupal themes
Learn how to control Drupal's appearance in themes through our Drupal theming courses:
Add dynamic behaviors to Drupal
Integrate and apply your custom JavaScript or external libraries into a Drupal site.
Create decoupled Drupal applications
Learn how to develop a RESTful API, use JSON:API, setup authentication for CRUD operations, and build your first decoupled Drupal site with React.
Web services courses:
Extend and alter Drupal with PHP
Web developers use their knowledge of Drupal's API and object-oriented PHP to extend, alter, and enhance Drupal in extensions called modules.
Upgrade from Drupal 7 or migrate to Drupal
Whether you're updating from Drupal 6 or Drupal 7, or importing data from some other source, you need to know about the migrate system in Drupal core.
Migration courses:
Acquia certified exam prep
Get an overview of the exams and the exam process, or dive in and start studying for a specific exam.
Acquia Exam Guides: