Advanced Drupal Site Building

Course Description

You have experience working with Drupal, but you want to take it to the next level. This course will offer a deep dive into the configuration techniques you'll need to build a fully functioning Drupal site. We'll cover a set of modules that are essential to large-scale sites and cover topics ranging from managing media and content moderation to configuring an advanced search interface.

You'll also learn about concepts like Configuration Management that are key to maintaining a successful Drupal site. 

Learning Objectives

You'll come away from the course with knowledge of:

• How to get more out of your content organization with Views

• How to install modules that depend on libraries

• How to set up a Drupal site in multiple languages

• Managing media and setting up a publication workflow

• How to move configuration changes to a production environment

Week-by-Week Outline

You'll have lessons to complete between live sessions (exercises with video instructions) and access to a Slack channel and a one-on-one session to help you out.

Week 1

• Install Party & Introductions
• Views Contextual Filters and Relationships
• Extending Views with Contributed Modules
• Media Management with Entity Browser

Week 2

• Media Management
• Search API
• Multilingual Configuration
• Webform & Metatag

Week 3

• Content Moderation
• Configuration Management
• Wrap-Up

Who Will Get the Most Out of This Course?

Ideal for anyone familiar with Drupal who wants to take their Drupal site building knowledge to the next level. This is a great course to deepen your skills if you've taken our Site Building & Architecture training.