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Drupal 6 Content Administration

By : J. Ayen Green
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Drupal 6 Content Administration

By: J. Ayen Green

Overview of this book

Often a company hires a web designer to build its Drupal site, and then takes over running the site in house. This book is for the Content Editors concerned with the ongoing creation and maintenance of the site content. In a few hours, you'll have the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Drupal site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Editors. This book doesn't cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs some help using the article management features will also benefit from it. This book is a quick-start guide, aimed at Content Editors. The author's experience enables him to explain in an efficient and interactive manner how you can keep your site up to date. The book begins with a discussion of content management and Drupal and then teaches you how to create content, add elements to it, and make the content findable. You will then learn to set up the framework for a creative team and the various options for editing content offline, their benefits and pitfalls. This book helps you to quickly and easily solve problems, and manage content and users for a web site. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Drupal-based web sites.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Drupal 6 Content Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

The disgruntled team member


So, we've been marching along as one big happy team, and then it happens. Someone gets let go, and that someone isn't happy about it, to say the least.

Of course, we'll remove that person's login, but there is public access to our site as well, in the form of comments. Is there a way for us to stop this person from looking for ways to annoy us, or worse? Yes!

Activity 7.5: Blocking

Let's now perform the tasks necessary to keep disgruntled employees (and trouble-makers) at bay.

  1. 1. From the admin menu, select User management.

  2. 2. On the User management page, we'll select the Access rules option.

  3. 3. We'll choose the Add rule option on the Access rules page.

  4. 4. On the Add rule page, we have the option to deny access to a user, email address, or host.

    • The username and email address options will block someone from registering, but will not affect someone already registered.

    • The host name will stop anyone with that host name from accessing the system at all.

    • Wild cards can be...