Content Administration

The way Drupal works is to organize content into packages called 'nodes' you can think of each node as a sort of separate webpage. The difference between regular webpages and nodes is that Drupal's nodes don't get created unti a user requests them. For example when a user visits the "issues" link in the menu-bar drupal will tell the database to supply it with information for the "issues" node and then render that for the user.

The other important difference with nodes is that they can be organized into sub-type. A blog may be one type, an event may be another. You can have node types for any kind of content you can imagine and each type will have its own corresponding fields. For example: an event might have a start and end time and date as well as location information. A blog might only have a title and a body section. I've outlined the node types that UAEM uses in this section and how to create and edit them.

To create new content or to see descriptions of the different content types please visit the 'create content' item on the sidebar menu.

If you are not a Content Administrator your nodes may not show up immediately on the website. This is because they must be reviewed and verified by either a site administrator or a content administrator before it can be published. For more about content moderation see: Content Moderation.