Content Editing & Admin in Drupal 7
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Content Editing & Admin in Drupal 7Drupal Essentials
acquia.com1Wednesday, June 26, 2013
HELLO!
Heather James
@learningdrupal
Manager of Trainingat Acquia
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COMPARING DRUPAL
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Content first!
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Drupal can be...
• Main web prescence
• News hub
• Central event info and media
• A community
• Petition collector
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What is the point?
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Content defines the site
Article
Content title
Travel guide
Content title
Tips
Content title
Article content. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia.
tags tags tags
Tips content. This is a great way to pack your bags.
This is a guide. The best place to start is here. Then you can go there and further.
What to pack
Job posting
Job title
Where is it?
This is a job description. This is what we're looking for.
Terms of employment
Companyname
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Content is (still) king
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781937434199.do
• Content creation should be a core strategic business activity
• Content is intellectual property
• Hidden assets!
• Identify, Organize, Manage, Leverage it
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Content drives sales
• Sales begins before you contact clients
• Videos
• Infographics
• Quizzes
• Trend reports
• Case studies... etc
http://jess3.com/eloqua-content-grid-v2/10Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Other systems are structure first
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Example: Expression Engine
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Example: Typo3
Page added “into” site structure
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Structure first
(Possible in Drupal, just not the default!)
Page layout templates
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Page structure and placement
BEFORE content
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Ordering content in lists
Arbitrary ordering of
content in lists
(Possible in Drupal, just not the default!)16Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Media added to content
Media added to content
Access control per-content item
(Possible in Drupal, just not the default!)17Wednesday, June 26, 2013
“Page” level permission
(Possible in Drupal, just not the default!)18Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Menu placement = Path
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Appearance v display
http://webstyleguide.com/wsg3/5-site-structure/3-site-file-structure.html20Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Drupal is content first
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What you may be thinking
example.com news
aboutmasthead
politicssports
contactYour mental
site map
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Drupal holds dataArticles Users
Pages Comments
““
Terms
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Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Structure first approach?Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Front page Full page
?
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Different conditionsGooglehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Full pageFront page
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Two different conditions
Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
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Structured content
In HTML:
Body textTags
LocationMedia (video,
images)
Title
Image upload
Title
Location
Tags
Body text
Compare
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What to display?
Image
Title
Location
Tags
Body text
Author
Date
Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Show 2 most recent.Image as square thumbnail. Body text up to 100 words
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Show author and date?
Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Image
Title
Location
Tags
Body text
Author
Date
Show 9 per page with pagination.Image as thumbnail. Author link to profile. Short date.
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Uniquely positioned
• Karen McGrane, at DrupalCon Portland pointed out Drupal is uniquely positioned.
• A strength.
• Also... can be confusing!
https://portland2013.drupal.org/keynote/karen-mcgrane30Wednesday, June 26, 2013
UNDERSTANDING DRUPAL
From a content admin’s perspective
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Drupal 7 administration tour
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Admin tour
• Your site might look very different
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Content editing
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Customized client UX
Workbench
Admin with Rubik theme35Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Demo: Login different role
• Login as “user/1” - Sometimes called superuser, or admin.
• Login as another user role.
• Compare!
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Trick: Logging in!
• Go to /user on your site
• Such as http://opensource.com/user
• Here you will find the login
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Simple changes
• Anyone with “editor” role does not see the site with an administration theme (visual design)
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Demo: Edit a block
Try this...39Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Content types
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About content types
• Content types have basic settings.
• Simple version control (revisions).
• Adding fields extends and customized the content type
News article
Lead image
Topic
Event
Generic plus:
Topic
Date of event
Generic content type
Title
Author
Date published
Comments?
Menu option?
Generic plus:
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Demo: Add content
• Add an article.
• Compare the two content type forms.
• What defaults were set?
• How will these display under different conditions?
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Trick! node/add
• Not sure how to add content to your site or what is available? Try /node/add at the end of your address
• Example at opensource.com - Allows anonymous users to add content
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Permission to add content
• Only if enabled for a user “role”
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Adding to menus
• May not be available to all users
• Is configured per-content type
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Demo: Add more content
• Add a Basic page.
• Add Page to a menu.
• Compare the two content type forms.
• What defaults were set?
• How will these display under different conditions?
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Define content
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Your site content
• Moderated interaction?
• User generated content?
• Managed publishing workflow?
• Editor only content?
Seiichi Kusunoki - Visual Maintenance (cc) By Attribution via Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/67975747@N02/8480910015/
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Why content types
Unstructured text field Full page display is ok... but...
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Other displays?
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Fields
• Datatype: Numerical? Date? Text?
• Input widget: Radio button, text field? Validators.
• Display: Full text? Image resize?
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Example: OpenSource.com
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Content display
Teaser Full post
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Generated lists
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Demo: Add more content
• Add a Basic page.
• Add Page to a menu.
• Compare the two content type forms.
• What defaults were set? What fields?
• How will these display under different conditions?
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Content type defaults
1
2
3
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WYSIWYG and rich text editors
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Default Drupal
• Highly secure. Yay!
• Not user friendly. Boo.
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WYSIWYG
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Text input
Input form
Ha ha! Joke's on you!<script type="text/javascript">some malicious script</script>
Save or Cancel
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Text formats
Text format
Filter text input.
Remove all scripts.
Clean HTML output.
Input form
Ha ha! Joke's on you!<script type="text/javascript">some malicious script</script>
Save or Cancelanonymoususer/0 administrator
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Output
Output
Ha ha! Joke's on you!
Text format
Filter text input.
Remove all scripts.
Clean HTML output.
Input form
Ha ha! Joke's on you!<script type="text/javascript">some malicious script</script>
Save or Cancel
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Media handling
• Added as “fields”
• Inline media
• Embed videos
• Embed images
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Image handling
Example a. Example b. Example c.
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Managing content
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Managing content
• Content editors have lots of responsibilities
• Manage new content
• Incorporate feedback
• Ownership
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Workbench
• Special add-on to Drupal
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Customized Admin Pages
• Likely your site will have a customized adminstration pages.
• Content, comments, users, etc.
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Customized Admin Pages
Bulk editing
Special search and sorting
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Revisions
• Enabled for selected content types
• Only visible to selected user roles
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Revisions
• Depends on whether it’s configured or not.
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Demo: Compare
• Compare administration pages
• Content
• Users
• Comments
• ... depends on what you have access to control
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SITE STRUCTURE
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Anatomy of a Drupal page
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Page model in Drupal
Page
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Templates pull in regions defined in theme
Page
Sidebar
Footer
Header
Content
Help
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Blocks are assigned to regions
Page
Sidebar
Footer
Header
Content
User login
Powered by Drupal
Main page content
Search
Help
Whoʼs new
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Menus can also be arranged as blocks
Page
Sidebar
Footer
Header
Content
User login
Main menu
Powered by Drupal
Main page content
Search
Help
Whoʼs new
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Pages are assembled
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1
3
5
2
4
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Example: Selecting fields21
Full page has all the content
User profile
3 Block shows select fields
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Example: Poll module
1
2
Create the poll
Place the block
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Tools you might see
• Panels
• Drag and drop layout
• Context
• Uses page conditions to decide what to display
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Organizing content
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Example paths
• Paths can be set automatically..
• node/7
• user/3
• Totally custom
• path/to/something
• Or use patterns
• news/europe/title
• chef/jamie-oliverDecided at time of development
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Menus
• Controlled navigation
• Usually done at development time
• Static links
• Enabled
• Disabled
• Nested
• Drop-down (controlled in design)
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Taxonomy fields
Taxonomy
TermVocabulary
Term
Term
Vocabulary
Terms
Child term
Child term
VanillaFlavor
ChocolateVocabulary
Terms
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Demo: Site structure
• Add a taxonomy term to content
• Change path of existing content
• Add item to the menu
• Show: Acquia “Primary channel” dropdown.
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MAKING IT BETTER!
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Customize the experience
• WYSIWYG
• “Save draft” buttons
• Custom admin menus
• Custom content lists
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Rosetta stones for users
• Give users some help as they learn
Wordpress Drupal(use WP query in template) Views module
Plugin ModulePost types Content types
Posts NodesSidebars RegionsWidgets Blocks
WordPress SEO Meta tags module
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Rosetta stones for users
• Easy to get terms confused
Joomla DrupalComponent Module
Introtext TeaserMaintext Body
Mambot/Plugin Text filterMenu-horizontal Main menu
Module BlockSEF Clean URLs / Pathauto
Static Content Page
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Mollom for moderation
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Moderating content
Flag module
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Build in training
• Demo functionality to stakeholders
• Record demos at key milestone meetings.
• Get content editors involved at the earliest stages so they learn incrementally.
• Testing and learning at the same time.
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Documentation
• Create a central repository for project documentation, gather as you go along.
• Improve inline documentation.
• Content entry screen “help text”.
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Customize content admin training
acquia.com/training/contact
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