The document provides an overview of Drupal 8, highlighting its features, installation requirements, and core concepts such as nodes, entities, and modules. It introduces the administration areas of content, structure, appearance, configuration, and user management, along with multilingual capabilities in Drupal. Additionally, it emphasizes the community aspect of Drupal and its history, including the background of its creator.

1. Maarten De Block
Drupal 8 Basic Training

2. A little bit about me
• Maarten De Block
• Drupal Developer/Coach
• Co-organizer of the Belgian DrupalCamp
• Author “Kickstart Drupal 7” and “Handleiding
Drupal 8”
• CEO of EntityOne: Belgian Drupal agency
• Partner at SaaS Minded: Drupal SaaS

3. Overview
• Background/History
• Installation
• Basic concepts
• Main items in Drupal administration
– Content
– Structure
– Appearance
– Extend
– Configuration
– People
– Reports
• Bonus
– Multilingual
– Views, more in depth

4. BACKGROUND
Part 1

5. What is Drupal?
• Content Management System (CMS)
• Programming Framework
• Community
– “Come for the Code, Stay for the Community”

6. Drupal versions
• Current version is 8.6.0
• 8 major version, 6 minor version, 0 patch
• Major version: Core compatibility
• Minor version: New features
• Patch: Fixes, small improvements, etc.

7. Drupal versions

8. Technology behind Drupal
• PHP (compatible with PHP 7)
• HTML 5
• CSS 3
• JavaScript
All standards, all opens source!

9. History of Drupal
• Invented by Dries Buytaert
• Aka “user 1”
• Message board for
fellow students
• Tried to register ‘dorp.org’ |
which means ‘Village’
• Instead registerd ‘drop.org’

10. History of Drupal
• Drop in Dutch is “Druppel”
• Drupal in English is
phonetically the same
• First official release:
May 18, 2000

11. INSTALLATION
Part 2

12. Server
• Usually you need a LAMP stack
– Linux
– Apache
– MySQL
– PHP
• Many variations possible
• Locally we’ll be using Acquia Dev Desktop

13. Folder structure Drupal

14. Install
• Click the URL in Dev Desktop

15. Welkom to your new site!

16. BASIS CONCEPTS
Part 3

17. Node
• A piece of content in Drupal is a ‘node’
• There are different types of nodes called ’Content types’
• Standard profile gives us ‘Article’ and ‘Basic page’
• You can create as many content types as you want
• Content types can have fields
• Every node has a URL node/nid
• Nid is the id in the database

18. Entity
• Almost everything in Drupal is an entity of some
kind
• Content Entity
• Users, nodes, tags, etc.
• Configuration Entity
• Makes configuration exportable

19. Module
• A piece of functionality
• 2 types
• Core: official modules by the Drupal
Association
• Contrib: Contributed by the community

20. Theme
• A specific layout
• Can also be core or contrib
• Contains Twig, HTML, CSS and sometimes JS
• A theme can be swapped without loss of
functionality

21. Theme: Regions & Blocks

22. Taxonomy
• Anything to do with tagging
• Grouping of data

23. View
• List of content
• Can take different forms:
– Table
– HTML list: UL/LI
– Slideshow
– Gallery
– ….

24. Management toolbar
• Menu for managing the website
• Only show up if you have suffictiant
permissions
• Responsive (new in D8)

25. MAIN ITEMS IN DRUPAL
ADMINISTRATION
Part 4

26. Content
• Overview of all content (a view)
• Sort, filter, bulk operations
• Create new content

27. Structure
• Content types: create and edit types of
content
• Block layout: where and when to show blocks
• Contact forms: basic contact forms
• Menus: Menu settings

28. Structure
• Taxonomy: Tags and labels
• Comment types: similar to content types, but
for comments
• Display modes: different ways to display
content
• Views: overviews of content

29. Appearance
• Everything to do with the themes
• Frontend themes and admin themes

30. Extend
• Install and uninstall modules
• For now only core modules
• Experimental modules is how Drupal
innovates

31. Extend
• Let’s install a contrib module
• Google Analytics:
– https://www.drupal.org/project/google_analytics
– Download Drupal 8 version
– Extract in /modules/
• Best practice is to create a folder “contrib”
– Return to Extend and install

32. Configuration
• All “other” configuration
• Everything that doesn’t fit in Structure, Extend
of Appearance
• 80% of all configuration links
• Modules can add configuration

33. People
• Manage users
• Manage permissions
• Manage roles

34. Reports
• Recent log messages: overview of all
messages, first place to check if something is
wrong
• Field list: list of all fields
• Status report: “health” of your Drupal
installation

35. Reports
• Top ‘access denied’ errors: filter on “Recent
log messages” for 403 errors
• Top ‘page not found’ errors: filter on “Recent
log messages” for 404 errors
• Top search phrases: filter on “Recent log
messages” of all searches
• Views plugins: overview of views plugins

36. BONUS
Part 5

37. Multilingual
• Multilingual modules fully in core
• Based on “field translation”
• Not the entire entity is translated, but field by
field
• Transliteration (é -> e, ç ->c, …)

38. Multilingual
• 4 modules in core
– Language: allows you to add languages
– Content Translation: allows you to translation
content entities
– Configuration Translation: allows you to translate
menu’s, views, blocks, etc.
– Interface Translation: allows you to translate
everything straight out of a module

39. Add languages
• Go to Configuration -> Regional and language -
> Language
• Available translations are downloaded from
drupal.org
• English is no longer a “special” language and
can be removed

40. Activate content translation
• Needs to be activated for each entity
• Go to Configuration -> Regional and language -
> Content Language and translation

41. Interface translation
• Go to Configuration -> Regional and language -
> User interface translation
• Plural and singular

42. Configuration translation
• Go to Configuration -> Regional and language -
> Configuration translation
• All configuration listed
• “Drill down” to find the right labels

43. Views

44. Find me at
https://be.linkedin.com/in/maartendeblock