Drupal 7 Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Installing and Configuring Drupal
• Introduction
• Installing Drupal
• Installing Drupal distributions
• Installing modules and themes
• Setting up site search
• Creating a multi-site Drupal installation

• Chapter 2: Creating and Publishing Content
• Introduction
• Creating a basic page and adding it to the main menu
• Installing and configuring a WYSIWYG editor
• Editing existing content and adding an image
• Adjusting the tabbed settings for content nodes
• Configuring comments
• Publishing an RSS feed of basic pages

• Chapter 3: Working with Blocks
• Introduction
• Adding a new block
• Creating a submenu block
• Creating a Superfish menu block
• Creating a block with Views
• Adding a new block region to a theme
• Creating a mega-footer menu
• Conditional display of a block

• Chapter 4: Custom Content Types
• Introduction
• Creating a basic content type
• Configuring the output of a content type
• Applying an image format
• Installing more field types
• Creating a more advanced content type
• Building a custom content importer
• Building a forum

• Chapter 5: Using Views to Create Custom Lists, Grids, and Tables
• Introduction
• Creating a news listing view
• Creating a dynamic view
• Creating a latest news block
• Creating a news image grid view
• Creating a randomly selected list of images
• Creating an archived content block and view
• Building complex views using relationships
• Adding a text search filter to a view
• Using attachments to extend Views' output

• Chapter 6: Creating Flexible Pages Using Panels
• Introduction
• Adding custom text to a page
• Adding a block to a page
• Adding a dynamic view to a page
• Configuring the visibility of the page
• Creating a custom page layout using the Layout builder

• Chapter 7: Working with Media
• Introduction
• Creating a simple slideshow carousel
• Creating a document content type
• Creating a simple document library
• Linking documents to a content type
• Adding video to a content type

• Chapter 8: Integrating Web APIs
• Introduction
• Integrating with Facebook
• Displaying a live Twitter feed
• Adding simple PayPal integration to content types
• Setting up the Add this social bookmarking service
• Adding a Google Map to content

• Chapter 9: Creating Regular, Mobile, and Tablet Themes
• Introduction
• Creating a new theme using Zen
• Overriding HTML output of a content type
• Creating a "bare-bones" theme from scratch
• Using the Mobile tools module
• Installing an off-the-shelf mobile and tablet theme
• Configuring theme compression and caching

• Chapter 10: Working with Other Languages
• Introduction
• Installing another language using Locale
• Managing interface translation using Locale
• Enabling content type translation
• Displaying a language switching block for end users
• Creating a multilingual View

• Chapter 11: Managing Users
• Introduction
• Creating new user accounts
• Managing user roles
• Setting up a new user notification
• Adding a biography field to the user profile
• Building a grid view of profile pictures

• Chapter 12: Running Drupal
• Introduction
• System maintenance
• Setting up a backup system
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with Drupal
• Securing a Drupal installation
• Configuring Drupal caching
• Running commands with the Drush tool

• Index