Drupal CMS Plugin Overview

Summary

The Siteimprove Drupal CMS Plugin is an overlay that appears within Drupal after installation and provides information about issues related to the site or page you are working on. The plugin functions as a streamlined version of the Siteimprove platform, displaying data from published pages that are available to the Siteimprove crawler. The Drupal plugin also supports Siteimprove's Prepublish functionality, allowing content checks before publishing.

What Is the Drupal CMS Plugin?

The Siteimprove CMS plugin is an overlay that, after installation, appears in your CMS platform informing you about issues related to the site/page that you are working on.

The Siteimprove Drupal plugin is the CMS Plugin used specifically with the Drupal CMS. The plugin works like a small version of the Siteimprove Intelligence Platform and shows information about published/live pages that are available to the Siteimprove crawler.

The Siteimprove Drupal plugin has the added advantage of Siteimprove’s Prepublish check functionality which allows you to check for certain content issues before publishing.

Note: You’ll need a Siteimprove subscription to Prepublish in order to use the feature. Contact Siteimprove if you have any questions regarding your subscription.

Before Installing the Drupal CMS Plugin

Make sure that the CMS site you are installing the plugin on is set up as a site being crawled in the Siteimprove platform (not a local environment). If it is not, see Adding a Site - Tips & Tricks. If you want to test the plugin on a test environment first please reference this article for steps to do so: How to test the Siteimprove CMS Plugin.

Installation

You can navigate to the plugin installation guide and packages from links on the Siteimprove Drupal plugin page.

Using the Drupal CMS Plugin

New Plugin Experience Usage

For usage information with the new plugin experience (with the ‘Use latest experience’ checked under the plugin configuration) follow the guide below.

How to navigate the New Siteimprove CMS Plugin  

Old Plugin Experience Usage

For usage information with the old plugin experience with the ‘Use latest experience’ unchecked following these instructions: How to Disable New CMS Plugin UI follow the guide below.

Navigating Siteimprove's CMS Plugin  

Note: If you have excluded pages based on a common URL element, no data will be shown regarding those pages.

Support Information

Support scope: Siteimprove is happy to help with questions regarding configuring the integration. Siteimprove does not provide support or product help for the third-party software with which you are connecting.