September 2011
Beginner
100 pages
2h 54m
English
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Chapter 1. Introduction
A Quick and Dirty Guide to DrupalSpeak™
If you’re just starting off with Drupal, one of the hardest things to figure out is what people are saying when they discuss Drupal terms. What is a Node? What do you mean, Taxonomy? The list below is a quick and dirty guide to DrupalSpeak™, which is a tongue-in-cheek way of describing Drupal’s unique jargon. It includes the most common terms you’ll find people using when they talk about Drupal.
- Drupal Core (or Core Drupal)
The actual Drupal files that you downloaded from Drupal.org. Drupal Core is also used to talk about any functionality that is native to Drupal.
- Contrib
Modules or themes that you install after you install Drupal Core.
- sites/all
A folder within your Drupal installation which contains all the files, including any contrib modules or themes, that are being used to customize your site.
Note
Any module, theme, or other customization that you create for your site should always reside in sites/all.
- Node
A single piece of content. This could be a news item, event listing, simple page, blog entry — you name it. Anything in your site that has a heading and a bit of text is a node. Nodes can also have custom fields, which are useful for all sorts of things. Think of a Node the way you would a page on a website, or a record in an address book.
- Field
Fields are one of the best things about creating content in Drupal. Using fields, you can attach images or files to content, create extra descriptors (like a date for an event, ...
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