Low Effort, High Impact: Ways to Add Value to your Drupal site
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The document outlines various low-effort, high-impact enhancements to improve a Drupal site, focusing on search engine optimization, administrative updates, user search experiences, and accessibility. Key configurations and modules are discussed, including XML sitemap, metatag, Google Analytics, and facilitating bulk updates via the Views Bulk Operations module. The document provides specific paths and estimated effort for each task to assist users in implementing these changes efficiently.
Low Effort, High Impact: Ways to Add Value to your Drupal site
- 1. Low Effort, High Impact Ways to Add Value to your Drupal Site Lindsey Kopacz, @littlekope0903
- 2. Why is this important?
- 3. Budget.
- 4. Who am I?
- 5. Search Engine Optimization Administrative Interface Updates Making Searching Easier for the End User Accessibility QA If we have time, quick demo :) Categories We’re Covering
- 6. 1. Search Engine Optimization
- 7. What does it do? Helps search engines crawl a site and update results XML Sitemap Module How long does it take to configure Configure Navigation Structure, Content Types, Taxonomy LOE < 1 hour Path to configure XML Sitemap: /admin/config/search/xmlsitemap/settings
- 8. What does it do? Creates automated metadata for entities: Nodes, Taxonomy, Files, Users, Views Metatags Module How long does it take to configure Configure tokens for Nodes, Taxonomy, Files, and Users. LOE < 2 hours Path to configure Metatag Module: /admin/config/search/metatags
- 9. What does it do? Adds Google Analytics statistics tracking to website Google Analytics Module How long does it take to configure Configure Web property ID, Domains, Pages, Roles to track, etc LOE < 1 hour Path to configure Google Analytics: /admin/config/system/googleanalytics
- 11. LOE < 1 hour You can add shortcut links to the toolbar for frequently visited links, particularly ones that might be hard remember the path. Path to create or edit your shortcut bar: /admin/config/user-interface/shortcut Shortcuts Module (included w/ Core)
- 12. LOE approx 1-3 hours depending on complexity Select checkboxes what content you want to update, and update it all at the same time IE bulk updating existing content of a new empty field Path to create a view: /admin/structure/views/add Updating content with VBO module
- 13. LOE approx 1-3 hours depending on complexity. Edit a field right from the backend interface. IE updating a taxonomy really quickly without going back into the node Path to create a view: /admin/structure/views/add Updating content with Editable Fields Module
- 14. LOE approx 1-3 hours depending on complexity. Using Search Filters for displaying a specific type of content and seeing a table of some of it’s content. Path to create a view: /admin/structure/views/add Displaying and Locating Content
- 15. 3. Making Searching Easier for the End User
- 16. Taxonomy Filters Dropdowns Faceted Search LOE 2-4 hours depending on styling Listing Page Views Other Searching Keyword Search Sorting Filters - IE Newest to Oldest LOE 2-4 hours depending on styling Path to create a view: /admin/structure/views/add
- 18. LOE approx 1-2 hours Examples of what you shouldn’t be doing Adding images without alt text Using “Click Here” to describe links Using H3’s before using H2’s Path to create a view: /admin/structure/views/add Admin Views for Catching User Error
- 19. XML Sitemap Metatag Google Analytics Views Views Bulk Operations (VBO) Modules Used/Resources Editable Fields Better Exposed Filters Facet API Search API Search API Database Search
- 20. Questions?