Learn how to harness the power and flexibility of Drupal. Gain the knowledge and confidence you need to customize the look and feel of your website. Plus, discover exciting new D10 features including the StarterKit theme.

Overview

Get Familiar With Drupal

- Understanding essential Drupal terminology
- How to plan, create, structure, publish, and manage content
- Introduction to content types, taxonomies, and view modes
- Differences between Paragraphs and Layout Builder
- Best practices for launching and maintaining a high-performance website
- Exercise: build and define an example content architecture

How to Customize Your Drupal Site

- Adding workflows to schedule and publish content
- How to select, install, and configure Drupal contributed modules
- The possibilities and limits of custom theming and module development
- Exercise: build a theme using Drupal 10’s Starterkit theme generator
- Exercise: theme a component using Paragraphs

Extra Tips and Tricks

- Introduction to common modules including Webform, Pathauto, and Scheduler
- Translating and managing multilingual content in Drupal

Learning Objectives

- Experience creating your first Drupal website
- The skills to confidently customize the look and feel of your Drupal site
- Actionable tips and best practices to optimize your content and processes
- A fundamental understanding of Drupal that’ll help you get the most from your website and collaborate better with designers and developers

Prerequisites

What You’ll Need? A laptop with Drupal installed locally or in Gitpod (we can provide instructions). All levels of Drupal experience are welcome (especially beginners!). Knowledge of CSS/Twig will help you in the afternoon portion, but it’s not required.

Synopsis

Learn how to harness the power and flexibility of Drupal. Gain the knowledge and confidence you need to customize the look and feel of your website. Plus, discover exciting new D10 features including the StarterKit theme.