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<slideshow style="nobleprog" headingmark="⌘" incmark="…" scaled="true" font="Trebuchet MS" >
;title: Administering Drupal 7 Website
;author: Bernard Szlachta (NobleProg Ltd)
</slideshow>
==Administering Drupal 7 Website Training Materials ==
{{Can I use your material}}

== Intro ⌘==
* What is Drupal?
* The Building Blocks of Drupal
* Choosing and managing your themes
* Choosing and managing your modules
* Managing your users
* Managing your content
* Ordering your content
* Troubleshooting Drupal

== What is Drupal ⌘==
* Community
* Software
** CMS
** '''Framework''' for other project
*** e-commerce
*** social networks
*** portals
*** media portals
*** LMS, CRM, ERP, etc...

== Drupal Sandbox ⌘==
* Bitnami (http://bitnami.org/stack/drupal)
* AmazonEC2
* JumpBox

== Building Blocks ⌘==

{| cellpadding="10"
|-
|
'''Extensions'''
* Modules
* Themes
* Distributions
||
'''Users'''
* User Accounts settings
* User Profiles
* Roles and Permissions
|-
|
'''Content'''
* Nodes (Fields, Revisions, Comments, Workflows)
* Files (Images)
* Taxonomy (Vocabularies and Terms)
||
'''Structure'''
* Blocks
* Menus
* Input Filters
|}

== Extensions ⌘==
Core, Themes, Profiles (Distributions) and Modules are also known as '''Extensions'''.

=== Distributions ===
A Distribution contains:
* Drupal core
* Contributed modules
* Themes
* Pre-defined configuration

Examples:
* Commerce Kickstart (e-commerce)
* OpenPublic (public-administration)
* ELMS (e-Learning Management System)

More:
http://drupal.org/project/distributions

== Finding Admin Settings ⌘==
# got to /admin/index
# use ctrl+f (search option in the browser) to find the option you need
== Modules ⌘==
"Extend and customize Drupal functionality"
* '''Contributed Modules''' are developed by Drupal community
* '''Custom Modules''' are not published to third parties
* '''Core Modules''' are provided by the Drupal Core

:During this course we focus on the Core Modules

Some modules are much bigger and more complex than the core!

=== Modules Versions ⌘===
* Important when you are looking for Documentation and Help
* Security Upgrades

=== Modules Support ⌘===
* Issues
* Statistics
* Documentation

== Themes ⌘==
"Allow you to change the look and feel of your Drupal site."
* Contributed Themes
* Custom Themes
* Sub-themes
* Blocks configuration can change when you change your theme
* Administration Theme
* You can allow users to change your theme

== Theme Configuration ⌘==
* admin/appearance/settings
* Customizing colours (color module)
* Configurations depends on the theme

== Users ⌘==
* User Accounts settings (admin/config/people)
** Email Templates
** Fields
** Profile2*
* Roles and Permissions
** Creating Roles
** Granting Permission

== Content ⌘==
* Nodes
* Files
* Taxonomy

== Nodes ⌘==
* Structure/Content types (admin/structure/types)
* Content vs Content Types
* Node can mean either, though Node Type is used as well
* Each Content type can differ
** Fields
** Workflow
** Permission
** Autopath and Menu options, etc...

=== Fields ⌘ ===
* Field Type vs Field Widget
* Common types are Text, Number, Date, Email, Location, etc...
* Visibility in Teaser (Summary) and Full Node

=== Revisions ⌘ ===
* Create new revision by default
* Log message
* Reverting
* Diff Module*

=== Comments ⌘===
* Moderation
* Status

== Workflows ⌘==
* '''Unpublished''' means visible to the author and administrators/moderators
* Content can be unpublished by default

== Files ⌘==
* Uploading

=== Images ⌘===
* Images can be handled via WYSIWYG or Image Field
* Configuration/Media/Image Styles (admin/config/media/image-styles)
* Assign a style to Display settings in a content type

== Taxonomy ⌘==
* Vocabularies and Terms
* HS, Taxonomy Menu*

== Structure ==
=== Blocks ⌘===
* Structure/Blocks (admin/structure/block)
* Blocks are part of the structure NOT content
** No search
** No revisions
** No workflow (publish/unpublish)
** No authorship information
** No fine-grained permission for editing blocks
** No index support (search)
* Blocks one day can be replaced by Panes from Panels module*

=== Menus ⌘===
* Structure/Menus
* Menu vs Menu Item
* Create when editing the content
* Primary/Secondary Menu
* Two menu items to the same content

=== Text Formats (Input Filters) ⌘===
* Configuration/Content Authoring/Text Formats (admin/config/content/formats)
* Text Formats allow to filter and transform text when saving and viewing a field
* Keep it Simple
* Rules can overlap with WYSIWYG

== Admin Tasks ⌘ ==
* Configuring Search
* Cron
* Customizing Error Messages
* Maintenance(site offline)
* URL Aliases
* Reporting

== Exercises ==

<pre>

First exercise:
- Choose and install a suitable Drupal theme
- Set your admin theme to Garland

Second exercise:
- Create two or three content pages (use the default content type Page)
- Allow users to comment on at least one page

Third exercise:
- Install the Field group module
- Install the Date module
- Create a content type called Booking
- Add two fields, From and To, of type Date
- Create group of newly added fields called Dates

Fourth exercise
- Position some blocks in your theme
- Set which pages certain blocks should appear upon

Fifth exercise
- Enable the Blog module
- Create two vocabularies:
1. one should have terms with at least two levels of hierarchy
2. second should allow free tags
- Create a blog post and apply some taxonomy

Sixth exercise
- Give your pages all meaningful URLs (you can do this by editing the nodes directly)
- Build a menu for your website
- Add your page nodes to the menu (you can do this
by editing the nodes too)

Seventh exercise
- Create a role for only Basic Page editor and assign all necessary permissions
- Set permissions so only authenticated users can comment and create booking content

Extra exercise
– Add some pictures to your pages (use proper field type or download IMCE module, configure it and integrate with CKEditor)

Installation exercise
- Use quickstart project (https://www.drupal.org/project/quickstart)
- Issue: to migrate existing drupal website into another one (make it multisite)
- Details: we have one hosting server and one mysql server (the same for both websites)
- Solution:
-- Create example30.dev website with drush (cd ~/websites ; drush qc --domain=example30.dev)
-- Add Basic Page node with title 'Comes from example30' in 'example30.dev'
-- Copy '~/websites/example7.dev/sites/default' folder into '~/websites/example7.dev/sites/another' and go there
-- Edit file 'settings.php' and change database name, user and password to 'example30_dev'
-- Go to '~/websites/config' and edit 'hosts' file and add new line there
127.0.0.1 another
-- Go to '/etc/apache2/sites-available' and copy file 'example30.dev' into 'another' and change all those lines:
ServerName another
ServerAlias *.another
DocumentRoot /home/drupalpro/websites/example7.dev
<Directory /home/drupalpro/websites/example7.dev>
-- Create alias '/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/another' linked to '/etc/apache2/sites-available/another'
-- Create alias '~/websites/another linked' to '/home/drupalpro/websites/example7.dev/sites/another'
-- Restart apache (sudo service apache2 restart)
</pre>

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