The Ultimate Guide To Drupal - Advanced Series - Course Contents
Module #1 - Forums
- Introduction to Drupal forums
- How to enable Forum Module
- Going through all Forum settings
- How to use containers to categorize your forums
- How to add forum to your containers
- Setting up Hot topic threshold, Topics per page, Default order etc
- How to put forum on your navigation bar
- How to setup permissions for different users
Module #2 – SEO Tips and Tricks
- Introduction to Drupal SEO
- Redirecting all users and robots to site with www prefix the correct way, using Drupal .htaccess file - to avoid duplicate content issues
- Enabling the clean URLs module
- Learning about Path module and how to use it
- Learn about URL aliases
- How to modifying the robots.txt file for best results, changes made to the robots.txt file and the reasons
Module #3 - Customized FrontPage
- Learn how to customize FrontPage, so that each class of users get a customized FrontPage
- Learn about Global Redirect Module, how to install and use it
- Learn about FrontPage Module, how to install and use it
- Learn how you can setup a salespage on Drupal FrontPage without any distractions for guest or anonymous users
- Learn how you can setup a custom FrontPage for a user who is returning after a week, a month, 2 months etc
Module #4 - Membership Sites
- Basics of building a membership site
- Going through all the plugins and software you need for building a membership site with Drupal
- Going through all the steps involved in building a membership site
- How to configure roles and setup all the permissions for different users
- Downloading and installing Poormanscron Module
Module #5 - Working With aMember
- How to install aMember
- Manually uploading the aMember script using binary mode
- Configuring aMember script
- Creating MySQL database for the aMember script
- Setting up the signup form configuration
- Going through features of aMember script
- Configuring aMember plugins
- Syncing the Drupal database with aMember database
- How to setup payment processor
- Setting up IPN (Instant Payment Notification) Preferences
- Configuring website payment preferences
- How to setup the membership levels
- Learn about different types of memberships such a bronze, silver, and gold levels
- How to add new products in aMember, filling in Title, Description, Price, Duration, Trial 1 Price, Trial 1 Duration, Recurring Billing, Fixed Subscription Start Date, Trial Group, Recurring Times, Product URL, Display Agreement, Drupal Access etc
- Checking out the signup page
Module #6 - Membership Site Protection
- How to setup the protected folders through aMember
- Changing permissions of the folders
- Learn about different types of protection including htpasswd and new_rewrite
Module #7 - Testing Out Your Membership Site
- Learn how to test your membership site, see if everything is working as it is supposed to be
- Learn how to use cc_demo to see if the payment transactions are working okay
- Learn about the different types of signup links
- How to check the details of your subscribers and edit them, including deleting or blocking them
- Finishing up your membership site
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