Menus
TopicA site’s main navigation elements, whether they be in the header, footer, or sidebar, are composed of links built using Drupal's menu system. Drupal allows site administrators to build menus while also allowing module developers to add and alter menus in code.
Layouts
TopicA 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.
Development environments provide a sandbox where you can work on your application without affecting the live site.
Back up Your Drupal Site
TopicA reliable backup will allow you to restore your site if something goes wrong.
Drush
TopicDrush is a command line interface that enables you to interact with your Drupal site without clicking around the graphical user interface (GUI).
Blocks
TopicA block is a reusable widget that is placed inside regions (layout containers) of your theme. Blocks can be used by site administrators on the Block layout admin page or provided by a module using the Plugin API.
Manage text formats and filters and add a WYSIWYG editor.
This exercise will have you demonstrate knowledge of the installation process and how to customize Drupal for an improved experience when using the administration UI.
This exercise requires you to analyze wireframes detailing the architecture of a website and design a content type to store all the required information.
In this exercise you will demonstrate the ability to build a ‘Movie Review’ content type based on our design by downloading contributed modules to provide all the necessary field types.
This exercise will require you to build a view which lists films filtered by genre and create image styles to format images for different purposes.
In this exercise you will demonstrate more advanced Views skills by building a view with a relationship between content and taxonomy and formatting the output using a table.
In this exercise you will demonstrate knowledge of Panels, and create a layout for the Top Ten List page, and create and configure content within Panel Panes.
In this exercise you will build and position quicktabs within a panel page.
In this exercise you will create and position menus, static pages, and webforms, which can be accessed via the menu.
In this exercise you will combine knowledge of Panels and Views to create a complex page layout.
In this exercise you will create URL aliases for all content, and create user roles to allow logged-in users to create content.
In this exercise you will demonstrate knowledge of core search by enabling site search, configuring the search display to format the content, and indexing the content.
Installing Drupal using the instructions in this tutorial will give you a working Drupal site that can be used for learning, or real-world project development.
Before you can work on a Drupal site locally (on your computer), you'll need to set up a local development environment. This includes all the system requirements like PHP and a web server, that Drupal needs in order to run. Our favorite way to accomplish this is using DDEV.
In this tutorial we'll learn:
- How to install and configure DDEV for use with a Drupal project.
- How to use DDEV's integrated Composer to download Drupal and Drush.
- How to install Drupal inside DDEV so you can access the site and start doing development.
By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to set up a local development environment for learning Drupal or working on a new Drupal project.