So, as per our previous chapters, we will use a clean Drupal install.
This time, let's install it using Minimal
installation profile, and build up what we want from a lighter setup.
Fig 1.0: Clean Minimal Drupal installation
Once we have set up and logged into Drupal, you will see that its look is plain (Fig 1.0) and minimal, and it is a great installation profile for simple websites that don't require much functionality.
This usually tends to be when we decouple Drupal or make it headless, which is another popular term used. We will cover this in the last chapter.
You will also notice that there is no navigation. To get to our modules page, either go to /admin/modules
or click Administration
and then click Extend
.
It's so plain here. In fact, we only get 10
modules enabled. They are as follows:
- Block
- Database Logging
- Field
- Filter
- Node
- System
- User
- Text
These are modules needed for Drupal to run, and they cannot be disabled.
To continue the development of our events website, we need to enable...