How To Learn Drupal

Drupal is a fantastic platform for content development and management. Unfortunately, its many great features, thousands of modules, and continuous pace of innovation often make learning how to work with Drupal difficult.

You may be familiar with the “learning curve”, well Drupal has been referred to as having a “learning cliff”! All jokes aside, being knowledgeable about how to use Drupal comes with a lot of career advantages and simply makes supporting a Drupal website much more manageable.

At Monarch Digital we still remember what it was like when we all first starting working with Drupal, more than a decade ago. Our team is full of Drupal experts now, but there was a time when we did not know what we were doing. What helped us find our way and build our technical expertise on the Drupal platform was the generous help and guidance provided by so many other members of the Drupal community.

As a way of paying it forward, we’re keeping a list of useful resources here for other new users in the Drupal community so that they too can grow their developer skills and one day contribute back to the community. If you find that your training needs exceed what you can manage on your own, get in touch with us about organized training and instruction, either for individuals or groups.

How to Learn Drupal Resources Index

Google Kung Fu

Online Chat - IRC

Drupal.org Documentation and Guides

Module Learning and Evaluation

Drupal Podcasts and Newsletters

Forums, Groups, Q&A

Video/screen-share Tutorial Services

Hosting Services

Online Programming Training

Sample of Great Drupal-oriented Blogs

Printed Books, eBooks

In-person or Organized Training

Mentoring

https://groups.drupal.org/mentoring

Core contribution mentoring (core office hours)

https://www.drupal.org/core-office-hours