Content Building Experience

As you know, Drupal is a content management system that excels in its editorial capabilities and content modeling. In this chapter, we will cover how to set up your content editing experience and add an editorial review workflow.

This chapter dives into creating custom types and harnessing different fields to create advanced structured content. We will walk through customizing the forms used for creating content and learn how to customize the content’s display. The next thing we will learn is how to build custom landing pages using the Layout Builder module. We’ll also learn how to add and manage content and utilize menus for linking to content. At the end of this chapter, you will be able to create a custom authoring experience for your Drupal site.

So, let’s take a look at what topics we will cover in this chapter:

• Configuring the WYSIWYG editor
• Creating an editorial workflow with content moderation
• Creating a custom content type with custom fields
• Customizing the form display for editing content
• Customizing the display output of content
• Using layouts to build landing pages
• Creating menus and linking content
• Using Workspaces to create content staging areas