Drupal CMS: The Ultimate Guide to Building Robust Websites

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Drupal is one of the most powerful and flexible content management systems (CMS) available today. With its robust architecture, extensive customization options, and a strong community, Drupal has become a preferred choice for businesses, developers, and organizations worldwide. Whether you are building a small blog, an enterprise website, or an e-commerce platform, Drupal provides the tools necessary to create a scalable and secure online presence.

For Installing Drupal CMS Command 
composer create-project drupal/recommended-project my_site_name_dir

Drupal CMS Installer

The installer for Drupal CMS is quite different from previous Drupal installation profiles as one of its main goals is to provide users the ability to select zero or more optional recipes to be applied and streamline some of the other normal installation steps (setting the site name and root admin user account.)

Currently, the installer exposes six Site recipes that can be applied during site installation:

  • Blog
  • Case studies
  • Events
  • News
  • Person profiles
  • Projects
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Smart content editing

Drupal CMS provides a customizable and intuitive text editor for you with a handy toolbar. However, this is just the beginning.

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What is Recipes in Drupal CMS

Recipes refer to predefined or customized solutions that help users set up specific functionality or configurations on their websites quickly and efficiently. Recipes are primarily introduced with Drupal 10.3 and serve as composable starter kits that bundle together modules, configurations, and other assets needed for specific tasks or website features.

Installing recipes after site installation

As alluded to, Project Browser comes with Drupal CMS. If one of the recipes mentioned in the previous section are not applied during site installation, they can be applied via Project Browser at any time afterward. In addition, there are several other recipes included with Drupal CMS that are not available during site installation:

  • Forms
  • SEO tools
  • Accessibility tools
  • AI Assistance
  • Commerce
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How Recipes Work:

  • Recipes are distributed as modules or configuration bundles.
  • Each recipe may depend on other modules or provide its configurations (like content types, fields, views, or roles).
  • Users can enable a recipe through the Drupal admin interface or by including it in their codebase.

Examples of What Recipes Can Do:

  • Blog Setup: A recipe that sets up a blogging system with a pre-defined content type, taxonomy for categories, and views for listing blog posts.
  • E-commerce: A recipe that includes the Commerce module, payment gateway integrations, and product content types.
  • Event Management: A recipe that provides calendar views, event content types, and registration forms.
  • SEO Tools: A recipe that pre-installs and configures modules for search engine optimization, like Metatag and XML Sitemap