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Maryland Digital Playbook

Getting Started

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Watch: Drupal Basics

Learn the basics of using Drupal to manage your agency's website.

How to Log In to Drupal

Your site’s URL will be provided to you by MDDS or a vendor. 

To log in, go to https://<URL>/user, where <URL> is the URL for your site. For example, “https://digital.maryland.gov/user”.

If your site has not yet launched, add “.prod” before .maryland.gov. For example, “https://digital.prod.maryland.gov/user”

Employees of the State of Maryland

Click Log in with Microsoft Entra. If you are not already logged in and authenticated, Microsoft will ask you to login and authenticate.

Note: Before you can log in and use the Drupal CMS, a site administrator must give you access to Drupal. Contact your site administrator if you need access to Drupal.

Everyone else

Enter your Username and Password and click Log in.

How to use the Drupal menu

1. Homepage link

Click the Drupal logo to navigate to your site’s homepage.

2. Create

Use the Create flyout menu to add a page or page component to your website.

3. Content

Use the Content page to browse any pages or page components created on your website.

4. Media

Media is a catch-all term for images, video, and documents. The Drupal CMS includes a Media library where you can manage everything you’ve added to your website.

5. Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the "tagging" system that organizes your content. Pages can be tagged with categories so that visitors can filter a long list of similar content, like a newsroom, staff directory, or events calendar.

6. Menus

The Menus is how to edit the header and its dropdowns, footer, and side navigation.

7. People

People is the list of all users that have access to your website. Learn more about roles and permissions.

8. Site Settings

Use the Site Settings page to manage basic site information, including the name of your website, the footer contact information and to set the homepage. 

How to set up your site

Screenshot of the Drupal Site Settings page

These steps should be the very first things to do when your site is set up. These tasks must be completed by someone with the Site Manager Role.

  1. Create a Landing Page to use as your Homepage. Use the name of your agency as the page title.
  2. Update the Drupal Site Settings page. This includes:
    1. Name your site. This name will appear at the top of all pages in the header and will likely be the name of your agency.
    2. Set the Homepage. Drupal refers to your homepage as the Front Page. Type the name of the newly created Landing page in the Front Page text field.
    3. Set your agency’s address, phone number and/or social media links. These will appear in the footer.
    4. Optionally set the Affiliation. Use this if your website is part of a larger organization. This should follow the format “An official website of the <Agency Name>”. For example, the Affiliation for this website states “An official website of the Department of Information Technology”.

Next Up: Creating a Page

Learn how to create and edit pages on your website.

How to create a page