Drupal Tutorials

This section of Drupalzilla.com contains Drupal tutorials. If you don't see what you are looking for right away, try our search page.

How to Fix Drupal's 'Create Content' Link Problem

Sometimes the Drupal menu will have a bug where the create content link will appear even for users that aren't logged in. Here is a screenshot of the problem:

Drupal.org SEO Part 3

This is part 3 of a case study on how Drupal.org could be further optimized for search engine rankings.

Drupal.org SEO, Part One

This tutorial offers some advice on how to optimize Drupal.org for search engines. This is part one of a series.

Drupal Taxonomy Tutorial

One of Drupal's best features is taxonomy. This tutorial gives an introduction on how to use Drupal's taxonomy system.

How to Make a Custom Front Page in Drupal

There are several ways to set a custom front page in Drupal. Four of them are described here.

Drupal and Robots.txt

An important aspect of Drupal SEO is the robots.txt file. Drupal 5 was the first version of Drupal that came with a robots.txt file, but it still needs some modifications.

Drupal.org SEO, Part Two

This article is part two of the series on optimizing Drupal.org for search engines.

Drupal Editors

After trying many different text editors and IDEs I've settled on Vim. If you don't already use Vim, I highly recommend checking it out. It has a bit of a learning curve, but it's worth it because it makes text editing much easier.

Drupal Pathauto Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to use Drupal's Pathauto Module along with taxonomy to automatically generate nice URLs on your Drupal site.

Canonical URLs

Google Engineer Matt Cutts talks about canonical home page URLs on his blog. The concept is basically this: