The document outlines 10 steps not to forget after installing Drupal, including configuring administrative themes, site information, user settings, content authoring tools, node settings, view settings, image settings, mail settings, performance optimizations, and security settings. It provides explanations and recommendations for each step to ensure the site is properly configured beyond the initial installation.

1. 10 Steps Not To Forget
After Installing Drupal
Cory Gilliam
@gilliamcory

2. Who am I?
• Cory Gilliam
• Drupal Site Designer
• Work @ Knoxville Internet
• Working with Drupal since (2009) Drupal 6.x
• Attend and teach at Drupal Camps:
•Nashville, TN
•Ashville, NC
•Atlanta, GA
•Washington DC
• @gilliamcory – Twitter
Special thanks to Daniel Schiavone

3. 10 Steps Not To Forget After Installing Drupal
Out of the box Drupal? Drupal's flexibility comes at a cost. After you have
installed your new site you still have a bit of work to do. This session will
cover 10 often forgotten steps to really get your fresh installation together.
We dive into things people forget to configure and more like:
• View settings
• Node settings
• Editor experience
• Site settings
• User settings
• Error pages
• Performance settings
• Tightening up Security

4. 10 Steps Not To Forget After Installing Drupal
After this session you'll be able to tweak out
your new install properly.
Session Objectives
• Know the post Drupal installation steps
• Find all the configurations you need to visit
before you launch
• Understand Drupal's basic building blocks

5. There are reasons why we forget.

6. Some reasons are not obvious.

7. 1. Make your life easier
• Administrative Theme
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Seven ( default )
Rubik ( requires Tao ) ( beta 9 )
Cube ( requires Tao ) ( beta 4 )
Stanley ( alpha 3 )
Shiny
Ember ( alpha 1 )
Adminimal ( dev )
• Module_filter
– https://drupal.org/project/module_filter
• Backup and Migrate

8. 1.1 Rubik

9. 1.2 Cube

10. 1.3 Stanley

11. 1.4 Ember

12. 1. Make your life easier
• Admin menu vs Toolbar
– Install admin_menu, enable Admin Menu, Toolbar
style, and Shortcuts
– Disable Toolbar (core)
• To overlay or not to overlay?
– Takes up too much real estate and gets annoying
• Php.ini (extra credit)
– Sooner or later you will have to adjust memory_limit and
upload_max_filesize settings

13. 2. Site Information
• Site email
– dev vs live
• Front page
– node/1
• 403 Error
– Access denied
• 404 Error
– Page not found
This is your chance to be Creative & User Friendly

14. 2.2 Funny 404

15. 2.3 Funny 404

16. 2.4 Funny 404

17. 2.5 Funny 404

18. 3. User settings
• Account settings
– Default user photo
– Emails
– Profile Fields vs Profile2 ( deprecated )
• Login/Logout destination
– Rules, LoginToboggan, Login_Destination
– Where does the user go after they log in or out
• Create Roles
• Configure Permissions

19. 4. Content Authoring
• Text formats (Served up by role and by the order they are in)
– Plain Text ( For anonymous e.g. comments )
– Filter HTML ( For regular users )
– Full HTML ( For power user )
• This could be an entire presentation by it's self

20. 4.1 Content Authoring
• CKEditor
– Install wysiwyg, ckeditor js library
– Drupal 8.x ( core ) ?
• Many settings but be sure to visit
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Editor appearance ( What buttons )
CSS ( Define styles e.g. left, right, center, ft-left, ft-right )
File browser ( They will want to add images and files )
Advanced ( They will paste from Word )
• Users will try to do stuff, prepare and be happy

21. 5. Nodes
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Content Type
– Submission Form
– Display settings ( Display author and date on by default. D’oh! )
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Add description
– Things like this put off never get done
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Comments - this could be an entire presentation by it's self
– Comments are on by default. D’oh!
– Spam controls ( mollum, captcha )
– Plan for maintenance
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Install and Enable Pathauto
Set up default aliases
– The default is content/[node:title] ( Nice but... )
– Usability and SEO
– Make it human friendly, the bots will figure it out.

22. 6. View settings
View is coming to core in Drupal 8.x, but until then...
• Install and enable Views, Views_ui, Ctools
• Use the Pre-configured views when possible
• Do you know there are settings? Like...
– Show SQL query
– Show performance stats
– Always show advanced settings
• When building your view, add an Content:Edit link
– Makes it easier for people with edit permission to edit content
– Link will display only for people with permission to edit

23. 6.1 View settings
• Add description ( Things like this put off never get done )
• Once you have built your views
– Sort ( Default is by creation date... )
– No results settings
– Exposed form style ( Install better_exposed_filters )
– Submit, Reset, Auto Submit
– Keep in mind, Auto Submit can be confusing for users
– Use Ajax
– Caching
– Theme information

24. 7. Image settings
• File System
– public / private – It will matter
• Image styles
– Configure display sizes here and use them in displays
everywhere ( nodes, views )
• While you are here, configure Date and Time formats
– http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
– This link will be your friend here

25. 8. Mail
• Where are the configurations
– SMTP module
– Messaging & notifications modules or Subscriptions &
Mail Editor
– Rules

26. 9. Performance
• Performance
– Cache for anonymous
– Aggregate js and css
– Caching on server ( e.g. Varnish )
• Pre-launch Task
– Disable devel modules
– Views UI
– Logging and errors

27. 10. Security
• User permission
– Revisit roles and permissions after installing modules
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File permissions
Security Review
SSL? + Secure Pages
Restricting content
– Security by obscurity does not work with Google
– This includes files
• Solutions
– Access control module ( Avoid conflicts by limiting the number
of access modules e.g. OG + Access Control + Taxonomy Access )
– Private files

28. 10 Steps Not To Forget After Installing Drupal
• What's next
– Bear ( installation profile )
– Build your own install profile
– https://drupal.org/node/1022020

29. 10 Steps Not To Forget After Installing Drupal
Questions?
Cory Gilliam
@gilliamcory
Knoxville Internet
Knoxville, TN
Coming Soon: Drupal Camp Chattanooga 2013 Nov 9th
drupalcampchattanooga.com
Coming Soon: Drupal Camp Knoxville 2014 March
knoxvilledrupalcamp.com

30. Places to learn more
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drupal.org/documentation
drupal.org/documentation/instal
lullabot.com
drupalize.me
lynda.com
mustardseedmedia.com
tutr.tv
gotdrupal.com
buildamodule.com
ostraining.com

31. Remember
• Group Photo on the main staircase!