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Drupal site building tips - From These tips were written for Drupal6 and have not yet been edited for Drupal7 and therefore may not be accurate; this section is under construction. Introduction Drupal is one of the most widely used website servers in the world. It is even used by the US White House. It is free and open source and can be customised to many different uses by installing additional modules. This page is a cookbook of how I set up a Drupal site and may be helpful for getting an initial site customized. I am assuming you have one (or multiple) Drupal installations running using these Drupal7 instructions or these Drupal6 instructions.

Initial user setup It is not a good idea to give anonymous users access to the site or create accounts until you have the site completely set up and are ready to publish. Drupal -> Administer -> User management -> User settings -> Only site administrators can create new user accounts. Create an administrator user role: Create a new user who will be an administrator Change: to. Untitled. Run multiple sites from the same code base (multi-site) If you are running more than one Drupal site, you can simplify management and upgrading of your sites by using the multi-site feature. Multi-site allows you to share a single Drupal installation (including core code, contributed modules, and themes) among several sites. This is particularly useful for managing the code since each upgrade only needs to be done once. Each site will have its own database and its own configuration settings, so each site will have its own content, settings, enabled modules, and enabled theme.

However, the sites are sharing a code base and web document root, so there may be security concerns with multiple administrators. Contents Overview of the Process To create a new site using a shared Drupal code base you must complete the following steps: Create a new database for the site (if there is already an existing database you can also use this by defining a prefix in the installation procedure). Back to Contents Details of the Process Document root ln -s . subdir 1. ReCAPTCHA. Hi This is great. I like it. Green Tea Review by jessicahamilton [info] on December 27, 2013 - 10:56 Best CAPTCHA module Simply the best and cleanest CAPTCHA module. Review by otsirpac [info] on July 5, 2010 - 19:43 reCAPTCHA rocks! I prefer reCAPTCHA to any other anti-spam. Review by pixel8r [info] on February 5, 2010 - 20:20 reCAPTCHA Is A Must For Your Drupal Blog reCAPTCHA is an add-on Drupal module designed to work in conjunction with CAPTCHA.

--Robert Nelson Vance Owner, proVanceTek LLC Review by rbtvance [info] on July 28, 2008 - 07:55 Saving Review Time Using this certainly saves a lot of time reviewing spam comments. Essential modules for your new Drupal 7 site | Blog in isolation. 40+ Essential Drupal Modules. If you are new to drupal, then this list is for you. These are some of the best of the best drupal modules. Everything from standard framework modules, to location and mapping is covered. Note that if you've been emersed in drupal for some time, than this will be "old news". The Big Three "The big three" are important enough that they deserve a category of their own.

Most drupal modules worth using have integrated with one of these three. Their importance simply can't be stressed enough. Content Construction Kit (CCK) - Part of drupal 7; still a contrib in drupal 6. I believe Panels + CCK & Views is a hint at what drupal will look like 3 years into the future. For Administration Sanity Admin Menu - Quick Dropdown menu to all admin areas. Content and SEO Pathauto - Automatically create human readable URLS from tokens. Navigation Menu Block - Lets you split menus into separate blocks based on depth.

WYSIWYG Editors + Image Uploading WYSIWYG API - The standard integration module. Ecommerce. Top 10 Essential Drupal 7 modules | Steve Purkiss. Backup and Migrate. Pretty nice post It is imperative that we read blog post very carefully. I am already done it and find that this post is really amazing. over her overnight reviews Review by sqaiq [info] on April 13, 2014 - 15:32 Hello Sir Your page is sweet, your graphics are great, and what’s more, you use videos that are relevant to what you’re saying. Review by Ivawow [info] on April 13, 2014 - 15:31 need Wi has the least volume of maize at money level at 40%. Review by lassehuovinen [info] on April 9, 2014 - 08:26 I learn I have bookmarked your blog, the articles are way better than other similar blogs.. thanks for a great blog! Review by stomv [info] on April 8, 2014 - 12:51 You may write about the search ability on the blog. Review by Ivan1 [info] on March 29, 2014 - 15:49 very easy very easy to schedule backups automatically, this is a good job really useful.

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