Administering a Drupal 8 Website Training Course
Course Outline
An Introduction to Drupal 8 for Government
- What is Drupal?
- The building blocks
- Where things live
Managing Users for Government
- User settings
- Creating, deleting, and editing users
- Roles and access
Managing Content for Government
- Creating and editing content types
- Workflow options
- Creating, editing, and deleting content
- Searching content
- Using blocks
Ordering Content for Government
- Drupal taxonomy overview
- Creating a directory
- Free tagging
- The Drupal menu system
- Friendly URLs and managing URL aliases
Troubleshooting for Government
- Reading the logs
- Watchdog
- Going offline for maintenance
Requirements
Runs with a minimum of 4 + people. For 1-to-1 or private group training, request a quote.
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Ability to try out each part on Rural as I learn about it. Trainer was very knowledgeable and helpful.
Ash Egan
Course - Administering a Drupal 8 Website
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