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Site Administration

Upgrade Drupal

Course
Site Building, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
6 tutorials
What Is Deprecated Code? Free
Upgrade to Drupal 11 Free
Upgrade to Drupal 10 Free
Upgrade to Drupal 9 Free
Update Drupal from Versions Prior to 8.8.x using Composer Free
Install a Contributed Module with No Drupal 9 Release Free
Site Administration

Install and Update Drupal

Course
Site Building, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
2 tutorials
Install Drupal Locally with DDEV Free
Update Drupal's Minor Version Free
Module Development

Automated Testing in Drupal

Course
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
6 tutorials
Introduction to Testing in Drupal Free
Software Testing Overview Free
Frameworks for Testing in Drupal
Install Drupal Development Requirements with Composer
Organize Test Files
Create a PHPUnit Config File for Your Project
Module Development

Writing Automated Tests in Drupal

Course
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
4 tutorials
Implement a Functional Test
Implement Drupal Functional Test Dependencies
Implement a Unit Test in Drupal
Convert Tests from Simpletest to PHPUnit
Module Development

Running Automated Tests in Drupal

Course
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
5 tutorials
Run Drupal Tests with PHPUnit
Set Up a Functional Test
Run Functional JavaScript Tests Free
Functional JavaScript Testing with Nightwatch.js
Run Drupal Tests with the run-tests.sh Script
Module Development

Test Custom Code

Guide
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Site Administration

Keep Drupal Up-To-Date

Guide
Site Building, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Module Development

Develop Drupal Sites

Guide
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Module Development

Learn to Migrate to Drupal

Guide
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Backend and Infrastructure

Performance and Scalability for Drupal Sites

Course
Site Building, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
18 tutorials
Overview: Drupal Performance and Scalability Free
Boost Drupal Performance with Contributed Modules Free
Drupal Performance Profiling: Tools and Methodologies
What Are Core Web Vitals?
Analyze Drupal Site Performance with Lighthouse
Analyze Drupal Site Performance with WebPageTest
Overview: Drupal's Cache Modules and Performance Settings
Overview: Drupal's Caching System
Debug Drupal Cache Misses and Low Hit Rates
Extend Drupal Site Monitoring with Contributed Modules
Set Up Advanced Caching on Pantheon Hosting
Set Up Advanced Caching on Acquia Cloud Hosting
Overview: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Drupal
What Is Server Scaling?
Overview: Benchmarking and Performance Budgets
Profile a Drupal Site with Apache Bench
Overview: New Relic as a Drupal Performance Monitor
Profile a Drupal Site with New Relic
Site Administration

Command Line Tools for Drupal

Guide
Site Building, Theming, Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Module Development

Learn Drush: The Drupal Shell

Course
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
21 tutorials
What Is Drush? Free
Install Drush Using Composer Free
Enable, Update, and Manage Modules and Themes with Drush Free
Use Drush for Common Site and Environment Management Tasks
Use Drush to Speed up Common Drupal Development Tasks
Use Drush to Deploy Drupal Updates
Overview: Drush's Output Formatting System
Automating Drupal Tasks with Drush and Bash Scripts
Drush Site Aliases
Drush Configuration
Develop Drupal Modules Faster with Drush Code Generators
Create a Custom Drush Code Generator
Overview: Creating Your Own Custom Drush Commands
Create a Custom Drush Command
Use Command Line Arguments with a Custom Drush Command
Add Options to a Custom Drush Command
Add an Interactive Prompt to a Drush Command
Logging and Error Handling in Drush Commands
Create Site-Wide Custom Drush Commands
Overview: Drush Hooks
Alter an Existing Drush Command
Site Administration

Drupal Site Administration

Guide
Site Building, Theming, Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Backend and Infrastructure

Search API and Solr in Drupal

Course
Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
18 tutorials
Why Solr? Free
Plan a Solr Installation Free
Use Solr Locally Free
Solr Cores
Install Search API
Solr and Multiple Environments
Create Search API Indexes
Populate Search API Indexes
Index Reference Fields
Create Search Pages and Blocks with Views
Multiple Search API Indexes
Processors in Search
Add Excerpts for Search Results
Add Autocomplete to Search
Filter Search Results
Facets in Search
Create a Facet
Create a Facet using Taxonomy
Module Development

Symfony for Drupal Developers

Guide
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Backend and Infrastructure

Deploying Your Code Without a Terminal

Course
Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 7
3 tutorials
Git, Deployment and Beanstalk Free
Use Beanstalk to Get Your Site into Version Control Free
Deploying Your Code Free
Site Building

Improve Drupal's Search with Apache Solr and Search API

Course
Site Building, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 7
16 tutorials
Better Search Results with Solr and Drupal 7 Free
Why Use Apache Solr with Drupal?
Search API Module for Drupal 7
Sample Content for Indexing
Install Apache Solr on Localhost Free
Install Apache Solr on Server
Install Search API Solr
Create a Search API Index
Display Results With Search API Pages
Add Fields and Assign Boost Values
Data Alterations and Processors Free
Display Search Results With Search API Views
Narrow Search Results with Facets
Configure Stop Words in Solr Free
Configure Synonyms in Solr
Promote Results by Keyword
Backend and Infrastructure

Drupal Deployment with Features and Drush

Course
Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 7
15 tutorials
Introduction to Drupal Features Module Free
Overview of Drupal Deployment
Creating and Deploying a Feature
Analyzing Code Created by Features
Features Overrides and Recreating a Feature
Reverting Features and Using Drush Features Update
Exporting Settings Variables with Strongarm
Managing Features with a Team of Developers
Adding Custom Code to a Feature
Creating Helper Tools for Drupal Developers
Exporting Roles and Permissions in Features
Resolving Conflicts Between Features
Removing Auto-Detected Components with Features Plumber
Making Your Custom Code Exportable with CTools
Other Features Modules
Site Building

Working with Drupal Multisite

Course
Site Building, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 7
7 tutorials
Overview of Working with Multiple Drupal Sites Free
DNS, Domain Names, and Apache vhosts
How Drupal Multisite Works
Configure Apache for Multiple Domains Free
Configure Drupal for Multisite
Use a Local Development Environment with Multisite
Using Drush with Multisite
Site Building

Introduction to Domain Access for Drupal 7

Course
Site Building, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 7
11 tutorials
Introduction to Domain Access for Drupal 7 Series Free
Domain Access Overview
DNS, Domain Names, and Apache vhosts
Drupal Node Access System
Configure Apache for Multiple Domains Free
Install Domain Access Free
Configure Domain Access
Domain Access Content
Domain Settings and Themes
Domain Access Permissions
Extending Domain Access Free

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