{"id":296,"date":"2010-04-06T05:22:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rajiniravi.com\/ravi\/wp\/?p=296"},"modified":"2010-04-06T05:22:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T12:22:26","slug":"drupal-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/drupal-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Drupal Help&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This website runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress <\/a>as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drupal.org\" target=\"_blank\">Drupal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Setting up WordPress, theming it, migrating my old blog and setting it up to my satisfaction was a breeze. Took about a couple of hours at best.<\/p>\n<p>Drupal on the other hand is proving a tough nut to crack. While installing it is easy, getting stuff up to my liking is not\u00a0intuitive\u00a0at all. I spent a couple of hours RTFM and realized that just browsing thru the files looking for specific help doesn&#8217;t work as you need to have the basic understanding of the platform. So while the blog page is up to date, I will leave the home page as is and do minor tweaking as and when I get time and understand Drupal better.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few links to help begin understanding Drupal&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Orchestra Teams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/OrchestraTeam#p\/c\/018635FE366E375E\">Drupal Basics<\/a> Videos:\n<ul>\n<li>Very Basic set of introduction videos to start off with. Plus their website runs the same theme I am using for this site. I was hoping these videos explained how they set up that site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adding user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisfree.me\/2010\/02\/create-drupal-photo-gallery-using-flickr-cck-views\">Flickr Gallery<\/a> using Flickr, CCK and Views Module\n<ul>\n<li>Need to have good understanding of Views and Content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Drupal se &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/payloadz.com\/d1\/freeproducts.asp?id=1209925\" target=\"_blank\">Drupal Handbook and API documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I want the final set of pages to look like.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website runs WordPress as well as Drupal. Setting up WordPress, theming it, migrating my old blog and setting it up to my satisfaction was a breeze. Took about a couple of hours at best. Drupal on the other hand is proving a tough nut to crack. While installing it is easy, getting stuff up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"","book_review_title":"","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"","book_review_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[50,51],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rambling","category-technology","tag-webpage","tag-website"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1547139559-c89c59d117611.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}