Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 14 ■ Administering Your Drupal Site
Figure 14-12. New user listed as Blocked
In Figure 14-12, you can see that a user account was just created for toddtomlinson, and that the user’s
status is set to Blocked, meaning the user is blocked from logging into the site.
If your site has several user accounts, you may wish to filter the list to find only those user accounts that
are blocked and hence need to be activated. To filter the list, click the Status select list in the fields above the
Filter button and select “blocked.
Next, click the Filter button to limit the list of users shown on the page to only those that are blocked
and need to be activated. Click the check box next to each of the users that you wish to activate, and make
sure that the Update Options select list is set to “Unblock the selected user(s).” Click the Update button.
Once the updates have completed the Status column now shows that our new user, toddtomlinson, is
Active. See Figure 14-13.
Figure 14-13. All users now set to Active
Summary
In this chapter, I covered the basics of administering a Drupal website. I explained the key administrative
tasks associated with running your new site.
Depending on the complexity of your site and the features you have deployed, there may be other
administrative tasks that are specific to those additional features. This list will get you started down the
path to ensuring that your site is backed up, error free, and up to date. For additional Drupal administrative
topics, visit the Drupal.org website.
Wow, we’ve covered a lot of information up to this point. You now have the knowledge necessary to
build simple to complex websites on Drupal, and you now know how to administer your new site. The next
chapter provides an overview of the Drush a tool.
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