Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

author: Robert T. Douglass
Mike Little
Jared W. Smith
asin: 1590595629
binding: Paperback
list price: $49.99 USD
amazon price: $31.49 USD

Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.

Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.

I co-authored this book in 2005. The Drupal section is 215 pages and covers the following chapters:

Introducing Drupal
- What is Drupal?
- Who Should Use Drupal?
- Installing Drupal
- Creating Drupal Content
- Touring Drupal’s Features
Configuring Drupal
- Configuring Site Settings
- Setting Up and Maintaining User Accounts
- Using Modules
- Using Blocks
- Managing Content
- Managing Comments
- Configuring Themes
- Using Categories
Using the Drupal Core Modules
- Aggregator Module
- Archive Module
- Block Module
- Blog Module
- BlogAPI Module
- Book Module
- Comment Module
- Contact Module
- Drupal Module
- Filter Module
- Forum Module
- Help Module
- Legacy Module
- Locale Module
- Menu Module
- Node Module
- Page and Story Modules
- Path Module
- Ping Module
- Poll Module
- Profile Module
- Search Module
- Statistics Module
- Taxonomy Module
- Throttle Module
- Tracker Module
- Upload Module
- User Module
- Watchdog Module
Adding Contributed Modules
- Getting Drupal Modules
- TinyMCE Module
- Image Module
- Image Assist Module
- Flexinode Module
- Event Module
- Location Module
- Organic Groups Module
- Spam Module
- Database Administration Module
- Developer Tools (Devel) Module
Adding and Customizing Themes
- Understanding Themes
- Installing New Themes
- Customizing Themes
- Using Theme-Related Modules
Maintaining Your Site
- Scheduling Automated Tasks
- Running Multiple Drupal Sites
- Making Backups
- Maintaining a Test Site
- Updating Drupal
- Getting Drupal Support