Site Administration Basics

Are you responsible for maintaining a Drupal-based site and still confused about how to edit your site’s content and do daily administration?

If you are a site administrator trying to use the CMS, maintain or update your content, and grapple with the nitpicky details of daily updates/management, this is a session for you!

The exact outline of this session will be flexible based on the needs of those who attend.

Basics to cover will include:

• Finding and editing nodes (pages, other content)
• Managing users
• Working with “taxonomy” and “tags”
• Checking status reports to find out about security updates
• A couple useful modules like Admin Menu and Backup and Migrate (see the two session proposals below for more detailed sessions on these tools:
  • Must Have Modules for Your Drupal Site
  • The Basics of Migrating a Site from Stage or Desktop to Live
• Path, Pathauto and setting up URLs
• Changing authoring information, post date/time, and publishing options
• Using revision settings and the diff module for version control
• Site Admin simple SEO tactics/tools

If you pick this session, please use the “comment” feature to let me know a little about your specific challenges with site administration. Every administrator has unique needs!