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Drupal 7 Social Networking

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Social Networking Build a social or community website with friends lists, groups, custom user profiles, and much more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516006
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Drupal 7 Social Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Drupal and Social Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site 3. User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs 4. Users and Profiles 5. Enabling User Interaction 6. Social Seasoning 7. Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network 8. How We Can Design Our Site 9. Communicating with Our Users 10. Deploying and Maintaining Your Social Network 11. Easing Growing Pains 12. Promotion, SEO, User Retention, and Monetization Strategies Setting up a Local Development Environment Installed Modules Index

Starting to build our site


Now that we have a basic plan of our site's static content, we can start to build the static elements of our site.

Using taxonomy

Let's start with taxonomy. Since this is a way of categorizing content, it makes sense to set this up before we start creating content.

Creating the vocabulary

We need to go to Structure | Taxonomy | Add vocabulary to define a group of terms to categorize our content with. Enter a name of Dinosaur Breed and a description of specific breed of dinosaur, before clicking the Save button. We will use this to categorize content which relates to specific breeds of dinosaur:

With the vocabulary created, we now need to add terms to it, using the add terms link:

Here we can add the various breeds of dinosaur to the vocabulary using the create term form:

Now that we have a new vocabulary with terms associated with it, we need to link it to the appropriate content types. We need to go to Structure | Content types | Basic page | Manage fields.

From here...

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