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5.10 Generating Sample Data
Once again, we need to fill our site with enough sample data to make sure that we like our current structure and layout. If not, this would be a good time to make more tweaks and changes to the content type displays.
1.Introduction5 lessons, 42:22
Free Lesson 1.1Introduction01:36
Free Lesson 1.2Prerequisites09:10
1.3Installing Drupal10:54
1.4Navigating Drupal08:43
1.5Updating Your Instance11:59
2.Creating Content5 lessons, 42:14
2.1Your First Content: Articles11:31
2.2Another Content Type: Basic Pages05:03
2.3Creating Your First Content Type10:29
2.4Formatting Your Content Types04:58
2.5Generating Sample Content10:13
3.Working with Views5 lessons, 34:11
3.1Creating a Page View06:37
3.2Fixing the Teaser Sizing Issue07:52
3.3Adding a Block to the Sidebar08:27
3.4Understanding Blocks04:45
3.5Editing the Main Navigation Menu06:30
4.Further Configuration3 lessons, 18:12
4.1Basic Site Configuration and Troubleshooting05:01
4.2People, Roles, and Permissions06:14
4.3Changing Your Site Appearance via Themes06:57
5.Building a Full Site From Scratch14 lessons, 1:24:52
5.1Creating the Conferences Content Type09:31
5.2Creating the User Groups Content Type06:49
5.3Creating the Speakers Content Type04:20
5.4Content Type Entity References05:43
5.5Working With Taxonomies07:16
5.6Adding Some New Content05:45
5.7Manage the Display of Speakers04:44
5.8A Couple More Display Changes03:31
5.9Modifying the Default Theme CSS08:15
5.10Generating Sample Data02:18
5.11Creating the Upcoming Conferences Block05:30
5.12Creating a Custom Security Conferences Page04:32
5.13Adding a Speaker Image Gallery07:01
5.14Final Cleanup09:37
6.Conclusion1 lesson, 02:26
6.1Goodbye02:26
5.10 Generating Sample Data
Now that we have our CONTENT TYPES beginning to display in a way that we're starting to like, now it's time to really blast in some content and really see how our site is going to take shape. And then we can start to in our minds figure out how we can structure our data maybe via lists or blocks to really provide some benefit to the end user to show them maybe some upcoming events and maybe events by a particular user group or we can start to really brainstorm on how we wanna organize our data. So once again here I am in the configuration section, click on Configuration, go to the Development section and then go to Generate content and now I can generate a bunch of content types. Now once again remember, this is the Devel module, so if you didn't install it before now is definitely the time to do it. So we're gonna come in here, let's generate some conferences, some speakers and some user groups. And I think 100 is gonna be a good number that's what we'll stick with. And we'll generate this as far back as a year cuz I just kinda like to do that. And the Maximum number of words in the titles, let's drop it down to 2 just so it's of reasonable size. Now let's go ahead and click the Generate button and Devel is gonna go through the process of generating all of these content types for us. So now here we are with our generated content. Let's go over to the Content section and we can now see we have a lot of content. So we've got Speakers, we have Conferences, we have User Groups. This is really starting to take shapes. So we can take a look at Speakers here a little bit. We see we have an image, we have a nice wrapping bio to go around it and then at the bottom, we've got some information about it. We have the Speaker Websites which are actual, at least structured as URLs. And now we have some Speaking Ats. We have some other conferences. So we can go ahead and click on one of those and it will take us over to the conference and we can see information about the conference. We can also see when it is, URL for that and some conference topics. We can click on these and we can bounce around all over our site to really see what's going on. And this is gonna be incredibly useful for us. Once we start to brainstorm really about how we wanna lay this out. And over the next couple of lessons, we're going to start to create some custom views and some blocks to really start to showcase our data.