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Time Narration
00:01 Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Creating Basic Content.
00:06 In this tutorial, we will learn about:
  • Content types
  • Creating an article and
  • Creating a basic page.
00:15 To record this tutorial, I am using:
  • Ubuntu Linux Operating System
  • Drupal 8 and * Firefox Web browser.
00:25 You can use any web browser as per your choice.
00:29 First, let us learn about Content type. In Drupal, Content type is the core of the content management system.
00:39 It is like the backbone of a site.
00:42 It is one of the things that sets Drupal apart from the other CMS.
00:48 Most of the CMS just have a title and a body and that as it turns out, is completely inadequate.
00:57 In Drupal, every content item is called a node. Each node belongs to a single Content type.
01:06 Next, let us understand the importance of Content type. Content type defines various default settings for nodes of that type such as-
01:17
  • whether the node is published automatically
  • whether the comments are permitted and
01:23
  • how content gets added to our site.

Every Content type has fields.

01:30 We have fields for information that we need, depending on what kind of content is going in.
01:38 Let me illustrate it this way. This is IMDb.Com which could be a Drupal site. This is about the movie Red.
01:49 On the screen, you will see -
  • a poster,
  • a title,
  • a release date,
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  • a parental rating,
  • a run time,
  • a movie genre,
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  • a body or
  • a description for the movie.
02:04 We will have a set of people fields as well as some other links and buttons and things.
02:09 In other CMSs we could use something like Dreamweaver to create this layout in CSS.
02:16 What happens if we want-
  • a landing page for all the movies in 2010
  • that stars Bruce Willis
  • with the parental rating of PG 13.
02:28 If you are using another CMS, it is difficult to do this. But in Drupal, it is done very easily.
02:37 This is the real advantage of Content types. Now, let us go and explore some built-in Content types.
02:46 Later, we will also learn about creating new Content types. Open our Drupal site which we created earlier.
02:54 First, we will learn about Article Content type. Click on Content and then on Add content.
03:04 Remember, we have already created one article. We will now create another article with all the elements.
03:13 Click on Article. In an article, there’s only one mandatory field, i.e. the Title.
03:21 If we don’t put text in the body, we will have nothing. An Article Content type comes with the Summary.
03:28 If we don't put anything in the Summary, Drupal will take the first few characters to create it. This is called the Teaser mode.
03:38 Let’s proceed. We will type a few lines of text here.
03:43 You can type any text that you want.
03:45 This is my text.
03:50 Here, Text format shows what elements we are allowed to put into the HTML.
03:56 We have Basic, Restricted and Full HTML. Because we are the super user, we can see everything.
04:05 Normally, when a user logs in as an editor or publisher, there is only one Text format here.

They are allowed to use only that Text format.

04:17 For more details, click on About text formats link.
04:22 For now, let's select Basic HTML.
04:26 Basic HTML allows us to look at the source code and use some basic HTML elements like-
04:33 a paragraph tag, strong italic,
04:36 unordered list, ordered list and a few others.
04:41 Full HTML allows us to embed any HTML including JavaScript and iframes.
04:48 In Restricted HTML, we will just be allowed to enter something like a paragraph tag or line breaks.
04:57 The WYSIWYG editor is CKEditor. We will learn about it later.
05:03 Here we can see

bold, italics, linking, unordered and ordered lists, block quote and image.

05:11 A formatting drop down to choose different H tags and then View Source.
05:18 When I change the Text format, I get more buttons. We will learn about them later.
05:25 Let's leave it at Basic HTML for now. Click on Continue button.
05:32 Let's finish our article. Once again, let's use the tags - "introduction" and "drupal".
05:40 We will leave the Image blank for now. You have already seen how that works.
05:47 Here on the right, we get the visibility and publication settings.
05:52 Click on Create new revision checkbox to enable version control for this particular article.
05:59 If we want to add an article to a menu link, click on Provide a menu link checkbox. Drupal will add a menu item to the Main navigation.
06:11 If you do that, we will get hundreds of mails. So, let’s remove the check mark.
06:17 We can turn Comments ON or OFF on a particular node.
06:22 Here we can give the URL alias.
06:26 If kept blank, then Drupal will create this for us.
06:30 Under AUTHORING INFORMATION, we can see who created this node and when they created it.
06:37 Under PROMOTION OPTIONS, we can set the view settings like-
  • whether this node will be promoted to the front page and
  • whether it will be sticky at the top of list.
06:50 These are set up when we create our Content type and the editor doesn't need to change those.
06:56 But we can make changes as per our preferences.
07:00 Finally, click Save and publish to save our node.
07:04 Immediately, the node is live on our site. We can see it here.
07:10 Click on Home page.
07:12 We have our Welcome to Drupalville and Drupalville's Second Article.
07:17 In Teaser mode, these are displayed in publication date order.
07:23 The Read more and Add new comment links are here.
07:28 To get a list of all the nodes tagged with the word Drupal, click on drupal link.
07:35 Again, the nodes are displayed in publication date order.
07:40 That's the Article Content type.
07:43 Let us click on Edit link.
07:45 We can insert anything we want here.
07:48 Drupal gives a lot of options, by default.
07:52 Let us click on Save and keep published.
07:56 We can use Content types for anything.
07:58 Let's add another item. Click on Shortcuts and Add content.
08:04 Choose Basic page. Basic page contains the Title and the Body.
08:10 There are no tags or images. It is not promoted to the front page, by default.
08:17 Also, there is no provision for commenting. Because it’s not promoted to the Home page, it's easy to create a new menu.
08:27 Type About Drupalville.
08:30 Type some text of your choice here.
08:33 Now, check the Provide a menu link under MENU SETTINGS.
08:38 You will see that the Title changes to a Menu Title.
08:43 We could shorten this, if we want. Check it in the main navigation and keep the Weight at 0, for now.
08:51 Weight is where the menu will appear in the list. A lower number or negative number will make it appear higher i.e. it will flow to the top.
09:03 Leave everything else the same. Make sure menu link is checked and click Save and publish.
09:11 We get an About Drupalville link. It will take us to our Basic page Content type with a node title About Drupalville.
09:22 The node ID shows 3. If you have added other nodes earlier, then your node ID might be different from mine.
09:32 At the bottom left, we can see this is node ID 3. You won’t need that very often, however.
09:41 That is the article and the Basic page Content type with a menu link. With this we come to the end of this tutorial.
09:50 Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we have learnt about:
  • Content types
  • Creating an article and
  • Creating a basic page.
10:05 This video is adapted from Acquia and OSTraining and revised by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay.
10:15 The video at this link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please download and watch it.
10:22 The Spoken Tutorial Project team conducts workshops and gives certificates. For more details, please write to us.
10:30 Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development and

NVLI, Ministry of Culture Government of India.

10:44 This is Gautam Narayanan, signing off. Thanks for joining.

Contributors and Content Editors

Nancyvarkey, Pratik kamble, Sandhya.np14