Getting Started with Drupal Workshop

Getting Started with Drupal is a training workshop with the purpose of introducing people to Drupal for the first time. The class format is flexible and is routinely run in 4-hour or 8-hour format either online or in-person. This material is available for anyone to freely use for any purpose, including but not limited to conferences, meetups, and internal workshops.

If you want to attend a workshop yourself you can register for an upcoming live event or watch a self-paced version of this course (there's also a Drupal 8 version).

Licensing and sponsorship

All material for this workshop is in the public domain and is free of known copyright restrictions. Please report any issues related to licensing and copyright using the issue queue.

All curriculum development for Getting Started with Drupal was sponsored by Pantheon. Many of the provided materials include the Pantheon logo (used by permission) however attribution to Pantheon is not required. A core part of the exercises involves using Pantheon's free sandboxes to have a safe and easy space to work from, however, you are free to suggest whatever tools you want and modify the material to suit your own needs.

Still not sure if this is the right course?

Here's how we describe the course to a prospective student:

Are you Drupal-curious? Just getting started with content management systems? This live, three-hour workshop, will take you from understanding what Drupal is, why Drupal 9 matters, to creating basic content, users, and an overview of more complex Drupal features. No prior experience with Drupal or web development is necessary.

At the end of this workshop, you’ll have an understanding of how content creation in Drupal works, and have a working test site that you can tinker with for as long as you like.

Learning Drupal doesn’t have to stop after this workshop. You’ll get access to a recording of the workshop so you can work through the steps again, plus additional resources to take your learning further so you can leverage WebOps and Drupal to accelerate your workflows.

Agenda:

• What is Drupal?
• What's new in Drupal 9?
• Content Management
• Creating Structured Content
• Creating Dynamic Lists
• Users, Taxonomy, & More
• Q&A

Who Should Attend:

All are welcome. The three-hour course consists of topic-driven lectures and step-by-step exercises delivered online.
Some typical attendees of past events have been:

• WebOps team members: project managers, content creators, site builders, QA testers and anyone else who works with a Drupal site.
• Drupal-curious developers: ever wonder how to build sites with Drupal?
• Junior developers: anyone getting started with web development will learn the foundations of Drupal.

Here’s What You’ll Learn:

• Drupal Basics: Getting set up to create content in Drupal, navigating and understanding the interface, and the benefits of the open source Drupal community.
• Content Types & Fields: Content Management Systems are built to help you manage complex content and relationships. Content Types and Fields are two powerful building blocks that Drupal offers to allow you to create and manage complex data structures within an easy UI.
• Dynamic Lists: You’ll learn how to use Views to create many different dynamic lists that update automatically across your website.
• Q&A: We'll spend a portion of the time answering any questions you have around the essentials of Drupal.

And self-paced resources to keep learning after:

• A recorded version of the workshop
• A workbook with exercises and links to resources
• Free discounts and offers from our training partners
• A free Drupal site running on Pantheon