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  • Drupal Terminology and Basic Concepts Every Drupal Developer Needs to Know!!

    Experts say that a lot of time can be saved with a beforehand overview of terms related to Drupal and since a lot of Drupal beginners complain about how difficult the terminology is, we took our time to take a closer look at the Drupal terminology and basic concepts and how these functions work together to provide robust CMS tailored to your business requirements.

    1. DRUPAL CODE
    Drupal core -- The files, themes, profiles, and modules included with the standard project software download. See Concept: Drupal as a Content Management System for more information (and a big-picture view of Drupal).

    2. Content
    Content type -- Every node belongs to a single “node type” or content type, which defines various default settings for nodes of that type, such as whether the node is published automatically and whether comments are permitted. Common "Content Types" that just about any website would have include: blog post and page.


    3. TAXONOMY
    Taxonomy is a way to classify or organize content on a Drupal site and group related content into categories. Taxonomy added to a News Item, for example, might include Taxonomy Terms or local or international items. This would allow Views to sort and create a list view of local news items or international news items. A Taxonomy added to the Staff Member content item might include Taxonomy Terms that denote departments in an organization (HR, Design, Manufacturing, Sales, etc.) Views could then create a view of only staff members in the Sales department to display on a page.


    4. USERS
    User
    Users are anyone interacting with the site. They can be anonymous (anyone not logged in) or authenticated (users who are logged in).

    Role
    Authenticated users can have any number of defined roles, for example: "logged-in user", "content creator", and "administrator." Roles are defined types of users with permissions assigned to them. Roles can be created and customized by administrators as many times as they like.


    5. Views
    A formatted listing of data; typically, the data comes from content entities. For example, on a farmer’s market site, you might create a content item for each vendor. You could then make a view that generates a listing page that shows a thumbnail image and short description of each vendor, linking to the full-page content item. Using the same data, you could also make a view that generates a new vendors block, which would show information from the most recently added vendors.


    Drupal Terminology and Basic Concepts is a guide to Drupal terminology, aimed specifically at beginners. Here are a few of the most important Drupal concepts that are covered in this article..
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