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Drupal 7 Cookbook

By : Dylan Spencer James
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Drupal 7 Cookbook

By: Dylan Spencer James

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal 7 is a modern Content Management System famed for its flexibility and power. Using Drupal you can easily create custom functionality that would otherwise have to be purchased in many of the other leading CMSs.<br /><br />"Drupal 7 Cookbook" is filled with recipes to help you to do more with Drupal and improve your skills. Chapters range from content creation, to theming, to managing your site. You will learn how to create your own content types and use them to create Views, Blocks, and Pages. This book will take you from novice to pro in just 12 chapters.<br /><br />In a wide variety of practical recipes, you will learn how to work with views and panels, how to provide translations for your content to create a multilingual site, and to integrate your site with social media. You can develop the Zen starter theme or learn how to create custom cross-browser compatible Drupal themes, including themes for mobile devices. The Drupal 7 Cookbook contains all of the means necessary to take your skills from those of a novice Drupal user to a proficient site builder.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Drupal 7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with Drupal


SEO in itself is a very large subject area; however, in this recipe we will cover some of the most effective methods of optimizing your site within Drupal. We will see how to configure custom page titles, bespoke URLs, and how to generate an XML sitemap and submit it to the search engines.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, install the following modules:

Once installed, enable the following features of the modules:

  • Pathauto

  • Token

  • Page title

  • XML sitemap

  • XML sitemap engines

  • XML sitemap menu

  • XML sitemap node

How to do it...

We will start by editing the Article content type to enable custom page titles, and inclusion in the XML sitemap. We will then optimize the URLs that are generated for the Article type, and finally, we will configure the XML sitemap:

  1. 1. Select Structure from the admin menu, then select Content...