Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 2 ■ Creating and Managing Content
All of these methods permanently remove the content item from the Drupal database. If you created a
menu link for that content item, that menu item will also be removed.
There may be cases where you simply don’t want a content item to appear on the site but you wish to
retain that article for future reference, or cases where you’re working on a long article and need to finish it
at a later time. In those situations, to effectively hide that content item from visitors to your site, simply edit
the article and click the arrow next to the “Save and keep published” button to reveal a “Save and unpublish”
link. Clicking that link retains the content but hides the content from visitors to your site.
Previewing Content
Another activity that you may wish to perform as you are authoring content on your site is to preview how
that item will look when it’s saved and published on your site. The Preview link at the bottom of the content
editing form does just that, displaying your content as it will appear in teaser mode as well as in the full
content mode.
Finding Content
It is likely that your site will have dozens to hundreds of content items, and at some point you’ll need the
capability to look for an item that you want to view, change, or delete. To find that content item, you could do
any of the following:
• Navigate to the page where that item resides, and click the Edit button next to the
title.
• Enter the URL for that item in the address bar of your web browser.
• Search for that item using your site’s search feature.
• Use the content listing page.
Any of the methods would work, but using the content listing page is probably the most common
method. To view this page, choose Manage ➤ Content. You’ll see the screen shown in Figure 2-19.
Figure 2-19. Viewing the content listing page
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