CMS: A journey into the unknown

I know this post is late seeing that we covered these modules on April 24, 2008, but I decided I would post what we did that day in case anyone forgot or wasn’t present. My notes are somewhat confusing. I’m just going to type them exactly how I wrote them, and hopefully when you’re on the Drupal site you will understand the directions.

• Turn on in “core-optional”
  • Blog 5.7
  • Taxonomy 5.7 (followed by a string of modules that rely on it) vim
• Turn on “other”
  • SimpleMenu (menu at the top of the screen)
• Under “taxonomy”
  • –tagadelic
• Then SAVE CONFIGURATION

Next step and useful pieces of information:

• Make a blog post
  • Log message, allows to add notes on changes otherwise just ignore it
  • asterisks tell you what is required
    • blog – title and body required
    • story – only title required
    • story vs. blog – no link to admin blog
  • by default home page is most recent actions
  • drupal calls each piece of content a node

Next step focuses on taxonomy – Josh recommended that you spend some time thinking about it.

• Admin –> category –> add vocab
  • Vocab name – section
  • Description – classify section have story in
  • Help text – classify section for the story
  • Types – blog entry, story
  • Hierarchy – multiple
  • Check required
  • Weight – 0
• Add term
  • <root> News
  • <root> News <UNLV>
  • And so on until…
• Now have set up structured hierarchy!
• Taxonomy = categories of wordpress

We also looked at free tagging also under add vocab.

Finally, we looked at blocks and menus under admin –> site building