Drupal Introduction

DRUPAL 101

• Barriers : static HTML & org capacity

• CMS : WP has biggest market, Drupal is 2nd

• Reviewing the UI

• DRUPAL

- MySQL

- broader Platform than WP

- includes API > functions out of the box

Drupal is a software and requires hosting for Apache and MySQL

Drupal 8 releases twin 2 versions are supported (D6&7 currently)

Drupal has a big focus on contributed modules

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Out of the box. Drupal Core has a fair amount of functions (less than WP) Drupal must be built in order to be useful

Drupal.org > Project > DL & Extend (>Themes)

Custom themes are often made with base theme

• ROLES

- can be assigned to org members

- permissions can be assigned to different roles

• FIELDS

- each content type has a field

- fields are configured after content type is made

-fields also include widgets, expanding the field function

• MODULES

- WYSIWIG

- there are standards that help build the site

- more modules await in Drupal

- a lot can be done with modules

• EXAMPLE : KRC (Korean Resource Center)

Drupal code and modules

• RULE : don't hack core

• ADAPTIVE Theme is a good base theme, this can be built on

• Something about BackDrop

- is a fork of Drupal

- takes from D7 and pulls back D8

- this allows smaller sites to stay up longer

- simplifies some drupal functions

• DRUPAL 8 will improve its extensive multilingual functions