Managing and Maintaining Your Drupal Site

So you have worked hard to get your Drupal site up and running. Things are good, everyone's happy, you're a hero; seems like your work is done… not quite. Not even close. What people may not know or maybe fail to realize is that maintaining Drupal is a good amount of work. And I'm not only talking about adding and updating content, I'm talking about taking care of Drupal overall.

Maintaining Drupal is a chore, but tasks fall into four areas: content, logs, status, and updates.

Handling content

• Manage your site content at /admin/content/node
• Filter content by type or status. This helps you sort through all the content quickly and efficiently
• Bulk content changes can be performed (Publish, unpublish, delete, sticky, etc.)
• If comments require approval visit /admin/content/comment/approval to approve or delete

Sorting content

Checking logs

• Go to /admin/reports/dblog
• Logs shows recent site activity from content additions, updates, page not found's, user access, cron, php errors, warnings, etc.
• Monitor these logs so you know what is going on with Drupal

Filtering Logs

Status Report

• Visit the Drupal status report at /admin/reports/status
• Database problems, server issues, general warnings, and addition information will appear here
• Some examples include: memory limits, database updates, file protection, Drupal updates, missing PHP libraries

Updates

• Core and module updates for Drupal can be seen at /admin/reports/updates
• Modules upgrades can be bug fixes, new features, security-related, or a combination of these
• It's recommended you stay current with your upgrades, especially security releases in order to protect your website
• You can customize email alerts at /admin/reports/updates/settings

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