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1. G E T T I N G S TA R T E D
W I T H D R U PA L

2. H I , I ’ M D AV I D
• Agency & Community Training Manager
• davidneedham on GitHub and Twitter
• david.needham@pantheon.io
• Some things I enjoy are:
- Biking with my wife and kids
- Board games: is.gd/davidsgames
- Volunteering in the community
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Tools for Teams
● Drupal / WordPress Optimized Hosting
● Advanced Caching
● Automated DevOps
● Highly Secure
● Dev, Test, and Live
● Cloud Environments
● Permissions & Security
● Cloud Integration Tools

4. W h y a re w e
d o i n g t h i s ?
Drupal Global Training Days:
groups.drupal.org/global-
training-days-2018
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O S T R A I N I N G : D R U PA L 8 E X P L A I N E D E B O O K
G I V E A WAY S !

6. A G E N D A
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What is Drupal?
Content Management
Creating Structured Content
Break
Creating Dynamic Lists
Users, Taxonomy, & More
Pantheon
Q&A

7. D o w n l o a d t h e w o r k b o o k
g o o . g l / K N c 2 3 G
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8. E X E R C I S E 1 : C R E AT I N G T H E D 8 S A N D B O X
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9. W H AT I S D R U PA L ?
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10. 10
• 1,156,737 websites (6.2% of the top 10k)
• 109,914 users actively contributing
• 1,738 commits in the last week
• 4,602 Drupal 8 modules
• 266 Drupal 8 themes
D R U PA L T O D AY

11. D R U PA L’ S H I S T O RY
• Why was Drupal originally created?
• Where did the name Drupal come from?
- Village = dorp in Dutch
- Drop = druppel in Dutch
- Druppel = hard to pronounce
- Drupal = easier to pronounce
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• Drupal 6
- Released in 2008, End Of Life 2016
• Drupal 7
- Released in 2011, currently in Long Term Support
• Drupal 8
- Released in 2015, currently in active development
• Backdrop
- Fork of Drupal 7
D R U PA L 6 , D R U PA L 7 , D R U PA L 8 , A N D B A C K D R O P

13. D R U PA L 8
• Symfony
• Composer
• Configuration Management
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14. D R U PA L I S O P E N S O U R C E
• Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
• GNU General Public License
• Encourages collaboration
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15. D R U PA L I S S E C U R E
• Community review
• Security team
- Subscribe to security alerts
• Modules
- Anti-spam
• recaptcha, honeypot, etc
- Two-factor Authentication (tfa)
- Paranoia (paranoia)
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16. D R U PA L I S F R E E
• Free as in beer
• Free as in speech
• Free as in puppies
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17. D R U PA L I S M O D U L A R
• Drupal module = WordPress plugin
• “There’s a module for that!”
• Your use case is probably not totally unique.
• Anything is possible with custom code.
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18. D R U PA L I S T H E M A B L E
• Any design can be implemented
• Headless is always a possibility
• Modules
- Display Suite (ds)
- Paragraphs (paragraphs)
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19. D R U PA L I S C O M M U N I T Y
• Drupal user groups all over the world
• International Drupal camps and events
• Code and documentation sprint days
• Everyone should have a mentor
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20. M O R E R E S O U R C E S
What is Drupal?
• Drupal 8 User Guide
• Drupal case studies
• Find a local meetup or other Drupal events
• Composer // Composer on Pantheon
• Drush // Drupal Console (command-line tools)
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21. C O N T E N T
M A N A G E M E N T
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22. D R U PA L A D M I N PA G E S
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31. D R U PA L 8 C A S E S T U D Y
German Consumer Centers:
• Decentralized content entry (domain)
• Page-building tools (paragraphs)
• Easy for a joint-editorial team to manage
• Open source community with regular updates
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32. E X E R C I S E 2 : C R E AT I N G C O N T E N T
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33. M O R E R E S O U R C E S
Content Management
• Modules to go further:
- Workbench: moderation workflows
- Admin toolbar: new admin menu
- SEO Checklist
• Video lessons
- Using Drupal (Drupalize.Me)
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34. C R E AT I N G
S T R U C T U R E D C O N T E N T
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35. D R U PA L 8 C A S E S T U D Y
Chicago Park District:
• Open source community with regular updates
• Integration with third-party tools
• Easy promotion of featured content
• Administrative publishing workflows
• Increased speed and performance
• Data feeds into My Chi Parks mobile app
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36. D R U PA L 8 C A S E S T U D Y
Chicago Park District:
• Open source community with regular updates
• Integration with third-party tools
• Easy promotion of featured content
• Administrative publishing workflows
• Increased speed and performance
• Data feeds into My Chi Parks mobile app
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37. C H I C A G O PA R K D I S T R I C T
Structured content
- Facilities
• Name
• Facility type
• Photo(s)
• Address
• Phone
• Hours
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38. E X A M P L E : T E S T I M O N I A L S
Testimonials
We love our new website! It's beautiful
and easy to use. Thank you!
John Doe
Acme, Inc
I'd say you did a mighty fine job. Keep
up the good work!
John Wayne
Rio Bravo, LLC
Thanks to you we have a beautiful
website! Pretty websites are pretty.
Clint Eastwood
Goode, Badd, Ugglea & Assoc.
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Name
Organization

39. E X E R C I S E 3 : C O N T E N T T Y P E S
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40. M O R E R E S O U R C E S
Creating Structured Content
• Drupal 8 User Guide: Chapter 6
• Available fields in Drupal 8 core
• View modes
• Video Lessons
- Content Types (Drupalize.Me)
- Fields (Drupalize.Me)
- Paragraphs (OSTraining)
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41. B R E A K
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42. C R E AT I N G D Y N A M I C
L I S T S
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43. D R U PA L 8 C A S E S T U D Y
Hong Kong Trade Development Council:
• Multilingual content migration
• Content moderation
• Bootstrap base theme
• Integration with third-party systems
• Extensive use of dynamic lists (views)
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44. E X A M P L E : T E S T I M O N I A L S
Testimonials
We love our new website! It's beautiful
and easy to use. Thank you!
John Doe
Acme, Inc
I'd say you did a mighty fine job. Keep
up the good work!
John Wayne
Rio Bravo, LLC
Thanks to you we have a beautiful
website! Pretty websites are pretty.
Clint Eastwood
Goode, Badd, Ugglea & Assoc.

45. E X A M P L E : T E S T I M O N I A L S
Testimonials
We love our new website! It's beautiful
and easy to use. Thank you!
John Doe
Acme, Inc
I'd say you did a mighty fine job. Keep
up the good work!
John Wayne
Rio Bravo, LLC
Thanks to you we have a beautiful
website! Pretty websites are pretty.
Clint Eastwood
Goode, Badd, Ugglea & Assoc.
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and easy to use. Thank you!
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Acme, Inc
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John Wayne
Rio Bravo, LLC
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46. E X E R C I S E 4 : V I E W S
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47. D R U PA L 8 C A S E S T U D Y
Hong Kong Trade Development Council:
• Multilingual content migration
• Content moderation
• Bootstrap base theme
• Integration with third-party systems
• Extensive use of views
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View #2
View #3
View #4
View #5 View #6

48. M O R E R E S O U R C E S
Creating Dynamic Lists
• Drupal 8 User Guide: Chapter 9
• Display Content with Views (Drupalize.Me)
• Modules to go farther:
- Views Slideshow (views_slideshow)
- Views Infinite Scroll (views_infinite_scroll)
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49. U S E R S , TA X O N O M Y,
E T C
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50. U S E R S
Permissions
Roles
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51. Ska
Punk Punk
Metal
Rock
Rap
JazzTA X O N O M Y
Vocabulary
Term
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Music
Genre
Vocabulary
Terms

52. M O R E R E S O U R C E S
Users, Taxonomy, Etc
• Drupal 8 User Guide: Chapter 7
• Extending Drupal with Modules
• Run Drupal 8 Locally with Lando
• Video Lessons
- Users, Roles, & Permissions (Drupalize.Me)
- Finding Drupal Modules (Drupalize.Me)
- D8 Theming Guide (Drupalize.Me)
- D8 Module Dev Guide (Drupalize.Me)
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53. PA N T H E O N
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VA L U E F O R C L I E N T S
Fast – Avg website re-launched on Pantheon is 2.47x faster than legacy infrastructure.
Reliable – 99.96% uptime across all Pantheon sites and guaranteed SLA backed uptime for
Elite plan sites.
Agile – More efficient and reliable platform through containers. Make changes quickly
without worry of breaking anything.
Scalable – Sites on Pantheon scale with no downtime or infrastructure migration and
are ready for traffic spikes with no worry from your team.

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VA L U E F O R A G E N C I E S
Launch Faster – Spin up, test, and launch sites faster. Iterate quickly and incorporate
new code without fear of breaking live environments.
Collaborate Better – Maximize your team’s efficiency with our web development tools
and automate your development workflow with our new suite of Cloud Integrations Tools.
Lower Risk – Sites on Pantheon scale with ease without constant monitoring from
your team. Automatic security updates and patches.
No Sysadmin – Focus billable hours on developing great sites, not building and
maintaining site infrastructure.

56. T R A D I T I O N A L H O S T I N G A R C H I T E C T U R E

57. S C A L I N G H O S T I N G A R C H I T E C T U R E

58. O U R A R C H I T E C T U R E
• Massive, multi-tenant platform
• Dedicated infrastructure
• 1,000,000+ Containers
• 6,000,000,000+ Pageviews/Month
• Big needs? We can handle them.

59. North America
● Ashburn
● Atlanta
● Boston
● Chicago
● Dallas
● Denver
● Los Angeles
● Miami
● Minneapolis MN
● Montreal
● New York
● San Jose
● Seattle
● Toronto
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South America
● São Paulo
Europe
● Amsterdam
● Frankfurt 2X
● London 2X
● Madrid
● Paris
● Stockholm
Africa
● Johannesburg
Asia
● Dubai
● Hong Kong
● Osaka
● Singapore
● Tokyo
Australia & New Zealand
● Auckland
● Brisbane
● Melbourne
● Perth
● Sydney
● Wellington
Pantheon Global CDN Map

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W O R K F L O W

61. Q & A / W R A P U P
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62. H O W T O A S K F O R H E L P
A F T E R T O D AY
• Help with Pantheon
- Power users
• Google Group
• Slack Channel
- ACE Office Hours
- Support tickets/chat (for hosting issues)
• Help with Drupal
- Find your local community!
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63. D R U P I C A L . C O M
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64. D R U PA L E A S Y
C O U R S E S
Drupal Career Online
• 12-week course beginning March 26th
• Sample in a Taste of Drupal on Feb 28th
Mastering Professional Drupal Developer
Workflows with Pantheon
• 6-week course beginning Feb 27th
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65. F R E E D R U PA L 8 E - B O O K
1. Joey Weber
2. Joe Aveni
3. Laura Cummings
4. John Romano
5. Ralf Koller
6. Suzanne Dazo
7. Aditya Vardhan
8. Annat Koren
9. Gary Weibert
10. Josey Howarth
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66. G i v e u s f e e d b a c k :
g o o . g l / VA 7 i u X
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67. C L O S I N G Q U E S T I O N S
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