The Drupal Community works well because community members bring many different skills to the project and apply them in many different ways, including helping others develop those skills.

On this page, you can browse for skills that you either have or want to improve. Click through to the page to learn more about the skill, including links for how to learn it, as well as contributor tasks and roles that use this skill.

This guide is always evolving. If you'd like to help improve it, the best starting point is the Contribute to the Contributor Guide page.

PHP coding/programming
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 17 February 2021.
Writing code in PHP
Product management
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 13 June 2020.
(needs details) Planning and approving changes to product features
Project management
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 22 July 2020.
(needs review) Managing people who are doing a project together
Providing support
Created: 10 July 2020. Last updated: 10 July 2020.
Sharing knowledge in a way that empowers Drupal users.
Public speaking
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 21 December 2020.
(needs review) Giving talks to groups of people
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 13 June 2020.
(needs details) Ability to optimize a web site for search engines
Site architecture
Created: 20 July 2020. Last updated: 24 July 2020.
(Needs review) Making the major technical design decisions for a website
Software testing (quality assurance, or QA)
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 24 July 2020.
(needs review) Testing web software
SQL
Created: 17 February 2021. Last updated: 17 February 2021.
(needs review) Write SQL database queries
System administration
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 17 February 2021.
(needs details) Setting up web server, LAMP stack, etc.
Teaching/Training
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 21 November 2020.
(needs review) Ability to teach skills or tasks to others in a group or classroom setting
Technical writing (English)
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 29 March 2021.
Ability to communicate well about technical topics in written English
Translating
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 17 July 2020.
Ability to translate English text to another language
Twig coding
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 13 June 2020.
(needs details) Writing Twig templates
Usability and user interface design
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 13 June 2020.
(needs details) Ability to design highly-usable user interfaces
Using Git
Created: 27 July 2020. Last updated: 30 June 2021.
(needs details) Applying patches, making patches, using branches and tags
Using pattern libraries
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 13 June 2020.
(needs details) Familiarity with pattern libraries and how to use them
Web site performance
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 13 June 2020.
(needs details) Improving the loading speed of web sites and web applications
Web site security
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 13 June 2020.
(needs details) Protecting a web site from malicious users
Wrangling volunteers
Created: 21 November 2020. Last updated: 21 November 2020.
(needs review) Recruiting volunteers to help with an event or other project

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