Guide to Drupal CMS at Barcamp SihanoukVille December 2013

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Meng Edeth
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2. About Drupal
Drupal is a free software package that allows
you to easily organize, manage and publish
your content, with an endless variety of
customization.
Drupal is open source software maintained and
developed by a community of 630,000+ users
and developers.
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3. Why Choose Drupal?
Use Drupal to build everything from personal
blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of
add-on modules and designs let you build any
site you can imagine.
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4. Get Started with Drupal
Let's start together with Drupal
1. Download and Install Drupal
2. Structure Guide
3. Extend Drupal
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5. Download and Install Drupal
https://drupal.org/project/drupal
1. Download and extract Drupal
2. Create the database
3. Create the settings.php file
4. Run the installation script
5. Set up cron
6. Configure clean URLs
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6. Structure Guide to
Drupal
Customize your Drupal site to be a full site
you have to know the following parts:
1. Node and Content types
2. Navigation menus
3. Blocks
4. Taxonomies
5. Views
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7. Structure Guide: Node and Content
types
All content on a Drupal website is stored and
treated as "nodes". A node is any posting, such
as a page, poll, article, forum topic, or blog
entry. Comments are not stored as nodes but
are always tied to one.
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8. Structure Guide: Node and Content
types
Default settings can be configured for each
type of content on your site at:
Administration > Structure > Content types >
[Specific content type]
or http://example.com/admin/structure/types
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9. Structure Guide: Node and Content
types
The Content administration page allows you to
review and bulk manage your site content. To
access this page in Drupal 7, navigate to
Administration > Content
or
http://example.com/admin/content
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10. Structure Guide: Navigation menus
Menus are a collection of links (menu items)
used to navigate a website. The Menu module
provides an interface to control and customize
the powerful menu system that comes with
Drupal.
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11. Structure Guide: Navigation menus
Creating a menu
1. Navigate to the Menus page (Structure > Menus or
http://example.com/admin/structure/menu).
2. Click Add menu.
3. In the Title field, enter a title.
4. In the Description field, enter an optional description.
5. Click Save.
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12. Structure Guide: Blocks
Blocks are the boxes of content (such as "User
Login" or "Who's online") that can be displayed in
regions (such as footer or sidebar) on your page.
Blocks are made available to your site most
commonly by enabling modules. Once created, a
Block can be modified to adjust its appearance,
shape, size and position - or which Website pages
it appears on.
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13. Structure Guide: Blocks
Administration / Structure / Blocks
Or
http://www.example.com/admin/structure/bloc
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with this address which let you add, edit,
delete and customize your blocks which
appear on page.
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14. Structure Guide: Taxonomies
Taxonomy, a powerful core module, gives
your sites use of the organizational keywords
known in other systems as categories, tags, or
metadata. It allows you to connect, relate and
classify your website’s content. In Drupal,
these
terms
are
gathered
within
"vocabularies."
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15. Structure Guide: Taxonomies
Taxonomy is the practice of classifying content.
Create Taxonomy:
1. Go to admin/structure/taxonomy
2. Click Add Vocabulary
3. Give your new vocabulary a name (required)
4. Optionally, give your new vocabulary a
description (optional but good to do)
5. Click Save
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16. Structure Guide: Views
Using the Views module, you can fetch
content from the database and present it to the
user as lists, posts, galleries, tables, maps,
graphs, menu items, blocks, reports, forum
posts etc.
It provides a graphical interface to a SQL
query builder that can access virtually any
information in your database and display it in
any format.
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17. Structure Guide: Views
1. Download and Extract Views Module
2. Copy your views folder to
sites/all/modules/
3. Go to Administration /Modules
4. Enable views module in modules list
5. Click Save Configuration
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18. Structure Guide: Views
After enable views module:
Administration / Structure / Views
1. Enable/Disable
2. Add new view
3. Add view from template
4. Import
5. Delete
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19. Structure Guide: Views
Views video tutorials:
https://drupal.org/node/1351076
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20. Extend your
Drupal
Download hundreds of modules to customize
and extend your site.
Most popular modules
– Views
– Chaos tool suite (ctools)
– Token
– Pathauto
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21. The End
Thanks!
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