How to Use Drush & Drupal from the Command Line

Keerthi Mohan
Drupal
How to Use Drush & Drupal from the Command Line

Drush | Drupal is a command-line shell and scripting interface designed to make things easier for people who spend their working hours at the command line.

Using Drush & Drupal from the Command Line

Drupal takes precedence over WordPress and Joomla in a number of scenarios when it comes to building websites. Why you ask? 

When web developers were questioned on this subject, Drupal was described as flexible, scalable, and feature-rich, although the platform is a bit more advanced and complex. The following article will explore using Drupal in the context of your Nexcess Web Hosting Plan!

Is Drupal Still a Viable Platform for Running a Website?

Although often labeled a Content Management System (CMS), Drupal is really a Content Management Framework (CMF) with a more robust set of security, management, and configuration features that make it more secure and adaptable than most CMSs.

Drupal is used to run some of the largest blogs and websites across the Internet. After more than twenty years of existence, it remains popular due to its stability, adaptability, and an enthusiastic and super active open-source user community.

Is Drupal the Best Free Open-Source Content Management System (CMS)?

When comparing the three leading free open-source CMSs of WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, each one has a bundle of strengths and weaknesses built in. Drupal is most often the best choice if your website needs a lot of custom functionality and will require a world-class foundation in the area of security.

Aimed at an audience seasoned developers rather than novices, Drupal demands a lot of custom work and coding to be implemented optimally, but it can deliver an amazing website for the long haul. Over the last 20 years, Drupal has proved its worth with the test of time and will most likely be around for another 20 years!

A Guide to Learning Drupal

Learning Drupal can seem difficult and daunting. Its ample feature set is like the ecosystem of a wealthy woodland with all types of fruit and wildlife, however, for those who are not skilled in exploring it, the foliage can seem thick, dark, and forebodingHowever, the right Drupal site-building guide could make the complexity of building a site effortless.

What You Need to Get Started with Drupal on Nexcess

Below are the optimal steps involved for Nexcess Cloud clients to make use of Drupal for constructing their website:

1)  After you have created a Nexcess Account, log in to your account by going to your Client Portal and using your credentials.

Starting with a new hosting partner can be overwhelming. For that exact reason, we have prepared a Nexcess Portal Guide to make each client’s introduction to our Nexcess Portal easier.

How to Become a Nexcess Portal Pro 

You signed up for an account with Nexcess but now what do you do? New systems can be intimidating to learn, so we’ve put together this guide to help explain what is in the portal and where to find it.

2) From within the Client Portal, navigate to the Plans section found on the left-side menu:

Client Portal > Plans

3) Once you have navigated to this section, click on the Create Plan button.

4) You will find the list of Nexcess applications to choose from on the next page. Select Drupal from the dropdown menu:

Select Drupal from the dropdown menu.

5) After that, you can choose the desired plan size option by clicking Select:

 After that, you can choose the desired plan option by clicking Select.

6) If you have already chosen a plan and billing model, click Next under the plans table to proceed to checkout.

Do you need to dive more deeply into the differences between Drupal and WordPress

Refer to following blog to help you with your decision:

Cagematch: Drupal Vs WordPress 

Once Drupal is installed for your domain, using Drush would be the simplest way to manage Drupal. This article’s approach will be to guide you through taking care of Drupal in the simplest manner, including the use of Drush.

For the people who prefer to work with a legitimate Command Line Interface (CLI), Drupal does not disappoint when it offers admins the Drush tool and set of commands. They utilize the straightforward Drush API.

Drupal | Drush Tutorial

This tutorial will review a portion of the essential Drush commands and work with a standard Drupal implementation to represent them.

What is Drush?

The Drupal Shell, also known as Drush and Drush | Drupal, is a command-line utility and UNIX scripting interface for Drupal.

Drush is an alternative to the Drupal program user interface when working with Drupal 8 or higher. In addition, the Drush framework is advantageous when migrating complex settings since it lets you show coordinated changes and allows you to roll them back.

Learning to use Drush and the instructions that come with the Drush core will assist website admins and builders accelerate their everyday Drupal work. It is a handy interface for everyone, not only developers. Drush | Drupal comes with plenty of useful commands for interacting with code, which we will cover in this Drush | Drupal

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