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Chapter 2 ■ Creating and Managing Content will increase by 1 for each node we add. Although http://localhost/node/1 gets us to the content that we wanted, the URL is not very people- or search-engine-friendly. Fortunately, Drupal lets us override the URL to something that is more understandable and representative of the content on the page being displayed. Click the Edit tab or hover over your content item and click the pencil icon and select Edit. In the right column, click URL Path Settings. Drupal lets you create an alias, or an alternative URL, to the same content item as http://localhost/node/1. In the “URL alias” field, enter a more descriptive link than node/1. For example, if the article describes recreational boating, you might enter “recreational-boating” in the “URL alias” field. Note that you only enter the URL portion after the base URL of your site; for example, if your site’s URL is http://example.com, there is no need to enter http://example.com in the “URL alias” field, only the descriptive portion of the URL (see Figure 2-16). Figure 2-16. Changing your content’s URL to a more descriptive one ■■Caution You must use hyphens, underscores, periods, or other characters to separate the words in your URL. Spaces between words will not work. After entering the new URL alias, click the “Save and keep published” button at the bottom of the form. Drupal will redisplay the page using the new alias URL that you created. In our example, the new URL is http://localhost/all-about-boats. The new URL is easy for a human to understand and, more important, easy for a search engine to pick up: the URL better indicates the content that the page provides. Creating alias URLs is an important aspect of creating content on your website. However, manually creating an alias for every content item is tedious. Fortunately, there is a Drupal module that automatically creates a URL alias for every content item saved on your site after the module is installed and enabled. That module is called Pathauto and was introduced in Chapter 1. I’ll cover the installation of modules like Pathauto in Chapter 8. Authoring Information Once again, click the Edit tab or use the pencil icon to edit a content item. Click Authoring Information in the right column, and you’ll see the screen shown in Figure 2-17. Figure 2-17. Enter author information here 19
Chapter 2 ■ Creating and Managing Content This screen provides information about the user who created the content and the date that the content was authored. It’s unlikely that you’ll want to change this information, but you can if you need to. Promotion Options The final item on the vertical menu is Promotion Options. Click the Edit tab or use the pencil icon to edit a content item. Click the Promotion Options link to see the screen shown in Figure 2-18. Figure 2-18. Checking out your promotion options In Chapter 1 we used the “Promoted to front page” option to tell Drupal that we wanted the article to show up on the front page of our website. If we uncheck this box, our article will be removed from the front page, but will still be available through the URL that we set up in the previous steps, or directly through the http://localhost/node/X link, where X is the node ID of the content that we are seeking. I will cover alternative methods for having content show up on the front page in later chapters when I talk about advanced Drupal features. The “Sticky at top of lists” option provides a mechanism for ensuring that this content item always appears at the top of lists. I will cover lists in detail in Chapter 10. This is a helpful feature when you have content that you want to highlight, such as an article on the rules for posting content on your site. Deleting Content I’ve covered how to create and edit content, but I haven’t covered how to delete content. There may be cases where you have a piece of content that is no longer relevant to your site, and you want to delete it. The process for deleting a content item is fairly simple. First create a new article following the steps covered earlier in the chapter. The title and content aren’t important, as you’re going to immediately delete the article after you’ve created it. Once finished, click the “Save and publish” button. If you are viewing that piece of content, you may: • Click the Delete tab (see Figure 2-10) • Hover over the article and click the pencil icon to reveal a Delete link • From the Content listing page (click Content on the menu) you may click the Delete button in the Actions column • If you’re editing the content you may click the Delete link at the bottom of the content editing form 20
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