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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

Node Content via email


Creating the Blog entry in the previous example was fairly simple, but it still required that the blogger has a computer or smart-phone available, with some blogging software installed. However, there is a method that demands less from the blogger. These days, people have easy access to email, and we're going to use email, and nothing else, to create Node Content on our site.

Another useful add-on module for Drupal is Mailhandler. Our admin installed and configured it, and then created an email address to which any email sent will be considered as new Node Content. With that done, let's create a new Story.

Activity 8.3: Using email to create a Story

In this activity, we shall create a Story on our Drupal web site via email.

  1. 1. We'll use our email client to send an email to the mail address that our admin has created for us.

  2. 2. We then go to our admin menu and select Mailhandler from the Content management menu (shown in the following screenshot). Remember, Mailhandler...