Archive for year: 2018

How to manage themes in Drupal

This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal

Now let’s learn how to manage themes

Click the Administer link

Themes are an easy way to change the look and feel of your Drupal site

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Click the Themes link here

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Click here to enable a new theme…

… then click here to make this new theme the default theme

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When finished, click Save configuration

That’s it! As you can see by the look of the website, our theme has changed

Let’s change our default theme back to the way it was

That’s all there is to it!

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage themes in Drupal

How to configure your site in Drupal

This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal

Now let’s learn how to configure our site

Click the Administer link

Then click Site configuration

Click the Administration theme link

This is the Site Configuration page where we can modify many aspects of our Drupal site

Click here to show the theme dropdown menu and seletct a new theme

This is the theme page where we can change the look of our Drupal Administration area

Click Save configuration

Let’s change back to the default theme

As you can see, our theme has changed to the bluemarine theme

That’s it! Our theme has been changed back to the default

Next, click the Clean URLs link

Click the Date and time link

If this option is enabled, the URL’s created by Drupal will be “clean” which will make them more efficient for search engine indexing. To enable Clean URLs, click here

Click the Error reporting link

This is the Date and Time area, where we can configure how the dates and times are displayed

On this page we can customize the error report pages

Click the Site information link

This is the Site Information page where we can set a name and slogan for our Drupal site

Enter a Name for the site here

Then enter your Email address

You can optionally enter a Slogan here

When finished, click Save configuration

That’s it! Our information has been changed and you can see our new site name here

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to configure your site in Drupal

How to manage pages in Drupal

This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal

Now let’s learn how to manage pages

Click Create content

To create a new page, click the Page link here

This is the Create Content page, where you can choose to create new pages or new stories for your web site

You would choose to create a page if you wanted to add a static page like a contact page or an about us page

Enter theTitle of the page here

Then enter the Body of the page here

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Click Submit

That’s it! The new page has been created

Click the Edit link here

You can edit the title or body of the page from here…

… or you can remove the page from your web site by clicking Delete

Click Delete to confirm

That’s it! The page we created has now been deleted

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage pages in Drupal