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Drupal From Scratch: New Site Checklist

Set the Admin theme Seven comes installed with Drupal 7 Rubrik is nice but has one bug that doesn’t show view replacement patterns

Metal Toad Staff
Nov 1, 2011
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  • Set the Admin theme
    • Seven comes installed with Drupal 7
    • Rubrik is nice but has one bug that doesn’t show view replacement patterns
  • Set the site email address to your preferred administration email
    • admin/config/system/site-information
  • Before Creating any content (fake or otherwise)
    • Create content types
      • !!! Warning: once content has been entered, content types cannot be changed without damaging data
    • Turn on and configure path aliases with pathauto module
    • Turn on clean urls
    • Create text formats for user roles
      • admin/config/content/formats
    • Set up WYSIWYG editors if needed
    • Create image style settings
      • admin/config/media/image-styles
    • Create a 2nd admin account (Thanks to commenter Nik for this one)

What's your process for setting up a new Drupal site? Let us know in comments if you think we missed anything.
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