Download and install the contributed Admin Toolbar module, which allows you to easily browse through the administration section of the website.
- If you want to install modules via the website, the core Update Manager module must be installed. See Section 4.3, “Installing a Module” for instructions on installing modules.
- If you want to use Drush, Drush must be installed. See Section 3.2, “Concept: Additional Tools”.
You can use the administrative interface to download and install a contributed module. If you are installing a custom module rather than a contributed module, if you see a message saying Installing modules and themes requires FTP access to your server, or if the steps below do not work to download and unpack the module files, follow the steps in Section 11.6, “Manually Downloading Module or Theme Files”. If you are using Composer to manage the files in your site, follow the steps for downloading in Section 3.5, “Using Composer to Download and Update Files”. In either of these cases, you can then install the module using Drush, or by continuing with step 7 in the instructions for the administrative interface below.
- On the Admin toolbar project page on drupal.org (https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_toolbar), scroll to the Downloads section at the bottom of the page.
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Copy the address of the tar.gz link. Depending on your device and browser, you might do this by right clicking and selecting Copy link address.
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- In the Manage administrative menu, navigate to Extend (admin/modules). The Extend page appears.
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Click Add new module. The Add new module page appears.
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- In the field Add from a URL, paste the copied download link. This value could look like this: https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/admin_toolbar-8.x-2.4.tar.gz
- Click Continue to upload and unpack the new module on the server. The files are being downloaded to the modules directory.
- Click Enable newly added modules to return to the Extend page. If you used the manual uploading procedure mentioned earlier, then you can continue with this step, and reach the Extend page by using the Manage administrative menu and navigating to Extend (admin/modules).
- Locate the Admin toolbar module and check it.
- Click Install to turn on the new module.
- Find the project name for the module you want to install, which is the last segment of the module’s project page URL. For example, if the project URL is https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_toolbar, the project name is "admin_toolbar".
- Download the module using either the steps in Section 11.6, “Manually Downloading Module or Theme Files” or Section 3.5, “Using Composer to Download and Update Files”.
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Run the following Drush command, giving the project name (for example,
admin_toolbar) as a parameter:drush pm:enable admin_toolbar
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
- Verify that the contributed Admin Toolbar module is working by browsing through the menu in the administration section.
- Install and configure the contributed Pathauto module so that content pages in your site get nice URLs by default. See Section 5.1, “Concept: Paths, Aliases, and URLs” for more on URLs.
- If you do not see the effect of these changes in your site, you might need to clear the cache. See Section 12.2, “Clearing the Cache”.
Attributions
Written and edited by Boris Doesborg, Joe Shindelar at Drupalize.Me, and Jennifer Hodgdon.
