Installation Profiles

Summary

If you find yourself building the same types of sites over and over again, I would suggest taking a close look at using Drupal installation profiles as a means for jumpstarting the site creation process. Installation profiles automate many of the tasks associated with setting up and configuring a Drupal site. It’s easy to miss a step when installing and configuring the same site structure over and over again. Installation profiles remedy that problem by automating the process.

In this chapter, I covered the files associated with creating a new installation profile, the structure and content of each of those files, and the details of the configuration options associated with creating and enabling core features such as blocks, content types, fields, taxonomy, and user roles.