Handbooks overview

Drupal documentation relies on volunteer effort. The current documentation team coordinator is Steven Peck.

There are five separate Handbooks, each with its own focus.

The Getting Started book provides some information on the Drupal project, it's history, mission and principals. It's main focus is also on setting up Drupal core and some basic best practices. It also has a link to a PDF of the core documentation.

The HowTo and Snippets book is a variety of reference material and HowTo, example snippets and theme guide. There is a section for the large more complex of the contributed modules as well (such as Views). The theme guide needs some attention as part of the information still relates to older versions of Drupal.

The Theme Developer' Guide is how the Drupal theme engine works and how to theme Drupal.

Developing for Drupal is the oldest book and the original root prior to the division into five handbooks. It is fairly actively updated in various sections as many of our active developers understand the value of documentation. It is hoped that the new Drupal dojo project will also be a good source of new developer documentation. The most up-to-date code documentation and examples can be found on api.drupal.org which is primarily generated from the Drupal source code itself.

The About Drupal book contains information on Drupal version numbers and some information about Drupal.org. It also contains some marketing material and links to professional support services and other tips for interacting with the community. The About Drupal documentation section contains information about Drupal documentation projects, authoring guides for documentation, and copyright and licensing notices for the handbook.