The document provides instructions on various content management and configuration tasks in Drupal, such as: 1) Creating and moderating forums, including enabling forum modules, adding forum containers and topics. 2) Organizing content using taxonomy by adding vocabularies and terms to categorize content. 3) Using the Views module to build customized lists and tables of content through configurable queries.

1. Wilson Wingston Sharon
wingston.sharon@gmail.com

2. What now?
 manage and administer content in drupal.
 Menu and blocks to link to content.
 Forums creation and moderation.
 Taxonomy for advanced content organization.
 Use views to run optimized SQL queries.
 Use CCK to customize drupal.

3. Nodes
 All content on a Drupal website is stored and treated
as "nodes.“
 allows the flexibility of creating new types of content.
 to painlessly apply new features or changes to all
content
 The nodes module
 List, sort through, and manage all the content on your
site;
 set norms for how all posts are displayed
 List and configure the "content types" for your site, and
create new ones.

4.  Administer Nodes - Administer >>Content management >> Content
 Administer workflow - Administer >> Content management >>
Content types
 Administer misc - Administer >> Content management >> Post
settings
 Administer user access control - Administer >> User management >>
Access control.

5. Add pathatuo module
 In material/modules find
 pathauto-6.x-1.2.tar.gz
 token-6.x-1.12.tar.gz
 token_filter-6.x-1.0.tar.gz
 go to c:/wamp/www/mysite/sites/all
 Create a folder called modules. Copy these files into
it.
 Right click the tar file and click extract here.
 In browser, go to administer>site building>modules
 Enable pathatuo and all token modules.

6. Types of Content
 Core
 Page
 Story
 Book
 Blog
 Forum topic
 Poll
 3rd party
 CCK
 Image
 Webform

7.  List all content types on site
 Administer > Content management > Content types >
List
 All posts are instances of ONE content type.
 Permissions for different content types can be
controlled
 Administer > User management > Permissions

8. Creating Content
 Go to Content management > Create content >
 Select content type you want to create. [story]
 Give title and Enter your required content.
 Input format as required – full/filtered HTML/php
 Give a log entry if there are multiple editors.
 Enable/disable comments
 Give alt URL path
 Set published, promoted to front page
 Make at least 3 story items for your site

9. Administer content
 Administer >> content mgmt >> content
 Gives a list of all site content available
 Content is usually classified as node/x unless given
an alternate alias.
 Select content and select one of available tasks.
 Administer nodes permission required for this.

10. Comments moderation
 Administer >> content mgmt >> comments
 Allows you to see and edit all user comments.
 Block anonymous commenting. (in user permissions)
 Use a spam blocker like mollom

11. Content mgmt>>post settings
 Rebuilding permissions – cron does it automatically.
Manual control here.
 Lets you control no of automatic post publishing to
front page.
 Lets you force people to preview post before
publishing.

12. Front page
 Create a front page from create content and
remember its node number or give it an
alias(frontpage).
 Go to Site Configuration > Site Information
 Enter either node/x or the alias (frontpage) in the
"Default front page“ text box.

13. Menu management
 Lets create a primary menu.
 Go to Administer>>site building>>menu
 Click on primary links
 Click on Add item
 Give path as <front>
 Give menu title as Home
 Keep parent items as primary links

14.  Create these paths as more primary menu menu
 blog
 contact
 search
 Forum
 logout
Or pages you’ve created as node/x or as its alias
 node/1
 node/2 – give parent as node/1
 node/3 – give parent as node/1
Or link directly to create a content type
 node/add/story

15. Building secondary links
from primary links
 Now go to administer>>site building>>menu
 go to settings
 Set source for secondary links as primary links
 Check out your menu.
 Click on node/1 item link and see the submenu.

16. Create a new custom menu
 From administer>>site building>>menu
 click the add menu and give it a name and title.
 Now you can add links to it as usual with add item option.
Add links to all the content pages you’ve created. Use
path aliasing.
 Now, how do we see this menu?
 You can see it as a block
 you can go to menu settings and redirect primary links to
retrieve its links from your custom menu.

17. Blocks
 Go to administer>>site building>>blocks
 Blocks are the boxes of content (such as "User Login" or "Who's
online") that can be displayed in regions (such as footer or sidebar)
on your page
 Your site's theme defines the regions available. Therefore, block
placement in regions is done per theme on the Block Admin page.
 If you have more than one theme enabled on your site blocks can be
placed differently for each theme

18.  Blocks must be Enabled and assigned to a region.
 Disabled blocks are never shown.
 Throttled blocks are hidden during high server loads.
 Page-specific visibility settings. Individual blocks can
be configured to only show/hide on certain pages
 Custom visibility settings. Individual blocks can be
configured so that users decide whether to
show/hide certain blocks.
 Dynamic blocks (such as those defined by modules)
may be empty on certain pages and will not be
shown

19. Blocks
 Drag who’s new and who’s online blocks to right sidebar
area in block list.
 Click save.
 Go to configure link next to the who’s new block entry.
 Select show only on listed pages
 And enter <front>
 Save
 Repeat for who’s online
 Remember the menu we made earlier? It should be there
in the block list. You can put it and set it to appear in a
specific set of pages.

20. More block control
 Go to administer>>content mgmt>>content
 click on edit content.
 Change url path settings to page/<description>
 Where description is page name you want to give
 Repeat for two or three content pages.
 This allows you to group content.
 Eg: page/* routes to all content that you’ve just made.
 In block settings of that menu Select show on every pages
except listed pages.
 Give this entry in list
 page/*
 Page
 Click save

21. A block trick – step 1
 Go to site config>>input formats.
 Click configure next to filtered HTML
 If you’ve installed the token filter module earlier, you
will see a token filter checkbox. Check it and click
save.
 Go to administer>>site building>>blocks
 Click add block.
 Give block description as hello.
 Give this as body.
 Hi [token global user-name]!

22. A block trick – step 2
 Select show block for authenticated users.
 Now, in block page, find the hello block you’ve just
created and drag it to the header region.
 Click save.
 Voila! This will appear only for logged in users and
will provide a customized personal feel to the site
users.

23. Forums.
 In material/modules find
 advanced_forum
 advanced_forum_more_styles
 Author_pane
 go to c:/wamp/www/mysite/sites/all
 Copy these files into modules folder.
 Right click the tar file and click extract here.
 In browser, go to administer>site building>modules
 Enable all forum modules.

24. About forums
 Go to administer>>content mgmt>>forums
 Containers – placeholders for forums
 Forums – placeholders for forum threads
 Forum Topic – the content type for forums
 Comments – the subsequent replies.

25. Creating forums
 In administer>>content mgmt>>forums
 Click add container and create the following containers
one by one
 tech discussions
 Gardening
 Help here
 Then click on add foums
 Create mobiles, computers and give parent as tech
discussions
 Create landscaping, flowers and give parent as gardening
 Create help forum under help

26. Advanced forum
 Go to In administer>>site cofig>>advanced forums
 Select blue lagoon as theme
 Change other setting as necessary.
 Go to forums link and check the forum out.
 Congratulate yourself.

27. Organizing content
 Taxonomy is the practice and science of
classification according to natural relationships.
 In Drupal, this is one method administrators use to
organize content in a web site.
 When users view a post to which a term has been
assigned, along with the post, themes can be set to
display the taxonomy terms as links.

28. Working with taxonomy
 Go to Administer >> Content management >> Taxonomy
 Click add vocabulary. Name it music.
 You can tie your vocab with a custom content type if
required. Choose page for the time being.
 Now click on add terms next to music vocab entry.
 Here you can choose parent terms as well as related
terms. [synonyms]
 Create page content to see how these tags work.

29. Eg taxonomy structure
 Vocabulary = Music
 term = classical
 sub-term = concertos
 sub-term = sonatas
 sub-term = symphonies
 term = jazz
 sub-term = swing
 sub-term = fusion
 term = rock
 sub-term = soft rock
 sub-term = hard rock

30. Taxonomy tricks
 Make a couple of pages with music vocabularies
 Go to menu administration and make a menu link in primary
with path as
 category/music/classical
 Now, to find taxonomy number – when editing a termn in URL
….taxonomy/edit/term/8&destin….
 When you create a new term, Drupal assigns it a number. And
you can call up all the items categorized under that term by
calling for its number.
 taxonomy/term/8
 taxonomy/term/8,9 [two term listing by AND]
 Taxonomy/term/8+9 [two term listing by OR]
 taxonomy/term/8/all [all child terms]

31. Views
 Views is a powerful query builder for Drupal that
allows you to fetch and present lists and tables of
content (posts/nodes) to the user in ways that are
tailored to your site and your content.
 This tool is essentially a smart query builder that,
given enough information, can build the proper
query, execute it, and display the results as a page,
block, or other format such as an RSS feed.

32. Install DEVEL
 In material/modules find
 Devel module
 go to c:/wamp/www/mysite/sites/all
 Create a folder called modules. Copy these files into
it.
 Right click the tar file and click extract here.
 In browser, go to administer>site building>modules
 Enable all devel modules
 Now go to administer>>Generate items.
 Populate categories, users and content.

33. views.
 In material/modules find
 views
 go to c:/wamp/www/mysite/sites/all
 Copy these files into modules folder.
 Right click the tar file and click extract here.
 In browser, go to administer>site building>modules
 Enable all views & views UI

34.  Go to administer>>site building>>views
 Click “add”
 Give name as music types
 Give view type as node. If using CCK, give type as
that content type here.
 Click next.

36.  In basic setting click on row style and make it node.
 Click plus button on filters.
 Change groups to taxonomy and select
taxonomy:vocabulary.
 Click add.
 Keep operator as is one off and check Music.
 Click update.

37.  Click plus button next to arguments.
 Group:taxonomy and select taxonomy:term.
 Click add.
 In Action to take if argument is not present: choose
Summary, sorted ascending.
 Click update.
 Click style: and choose list.
 Click update
 use defaults for the next option.

38.  Under page click on the add display button.
 Now on this page, give title to your view.
 On page settings give a path to your view [music].
 And add a normal menu item link for it in primary
links.
 Click save.
 Check out your views from the primary link created.

39. CCK – why we use drupal.
 Drupal comes with core content types like story and
blog. 'create content' to submit a new story, blog
entry, etc.
 The Content Construction Kit allows you to add
custom fields to any of the content types using a web
interface
 CCK is one the most important and at the same time
most mystifying features of the Drupal platform.

40. uses
 CCK allows you to add one or more fields to an
existing content type.
 You could also add a field to make it easier for you to
organize or theme your content later using views.
 If you want ultimate flexibility in customizing your
content types then you can use CCK to create a
whole new content type that meets your
specifications.

41. advantages
 Easier block visibility - display a block when the node
viewed has this type
 Different URL schemes when auto-naming - EG:
/node-type/*
 content laid out by different custom types can also
be a benefit in organizing and searching content in
the content manager.

42. Do the CCK
 Go to Administer>>content types
 Go to add content type
 Fill in all details.
 In submission form settings, keep body field label
blank.
 In workflow, uncheck all.
 In comment settings, disable comments.
 Save content type

43.  Now, go to manage fields for your new content type.
 Create fields as required for your custom content.
[try making one now for a fruit]
 More contrib modules will increase the field types
available here. Get them from drupalmodules.org
 In manage fields, after adding, configure for more
settings related to the field type.

44. CCK
 Fields will show up in the views – filters area under
groups “content type”.
 You can customise exactly how you present all
available content sorted however you require from
the views module.
 Play around with this as per your requirements.