Drupal as CMS
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This document provides an overview of key concepts in Drupal content management system (CMS), including admin menus, content types, blocks, and users and roles. It discusses how admin menus provide a user-friendly interface for accessing administrator items. It describes how content types define settings for different types of content like pages and blogs. It explains that blocks are boxes of content that can be displayed in regions, and how the block admin page is used to place blocks. It also outlines that users are site visitors, and roles classify users and grant permissions.
Drupal as CMS
- 1. Drupal as CMS Bharat Mhaskar Rachit Gupta (https://drupal.org/user/403301) June 14th, 2013
- 2. Agenda • Admin Menu • Content Types • Blocks • Users and Roles. 2
- 3. Menu’s • Menu’s are a collection of links used to navigate a website. 3
- 4. 4 Admin Menu • Admin menu provides a user-friendly UI for accessing Drupal Administrator menu items.
- 5. 5 Admin Menu • Following are the menu’s available with default Drupal 7 installation. • Content • Structure • Appearance • People • Modules • Configuration • Reports Contid.
- 7. Content Types 7 • A site contains many types of content (i.e. page, news, blogs, etc.). • These types of content are called Content Types in Drupal. • How site editors can input original content on Drupal Site. Contid.
- 8. 8 Usage of Content Types • Defines various default settings for node of that type. • Differentiate content with different types. • You can add content types via Administrator => Structure => Content Types => Add Content Type.
- 9. 9 Blocks
- 10. Blocks 10 • Blocks are the boxes of content that can be displayed in regions. • Blocks can be configured to modify their appearance, shape, etc. • Theme can define it’s own regions. Contid.
- 11. Where to find Block 11 • Blocks are placed in regions using Block Admin Page. • Block Admin page can be accessed via Administrator => Structure => Blocks.
- 12. Users and Roles 12 User’s • User’s are nothing but the authenticated visitors to your Drupal site. • Drupal can have “Anonymous registration” and “Adding Users through admin”.
- 13. 13 Users and Roles Roles • Roles are used to group and classify users. • Roles are also a set of permissions given to specific user. • Each user can have one or more roles. • Default Drupal installation has 3 roles (anonymous, authenticated and administrator). • Site Admin can add roles via Administrator => People => Permissions => Roles.
- 15. 15 References • Menus – http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/menu • Content Types – http://drupal.org/node/21947 • Blocks – http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/field-ui http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/block • Users and Roles – http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/user
- 16. Questions? 16