Drupal 8 Basics #6 - Editing Our Content

hey what's up this is Scott with love-love tutorials in this video we're going to talk about editing your content in Drupal and this is how editing has really come a long way from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 there's a lot of new features and a lot of cool stuff so let's get started now that we have our pages here you might be wondering how we can go about modifying these after they've been posted well you'll notice on any given page you're on as long as we're logged in let's go essentially to our post here you'll notice on the home page we don't necessarily have these edit options you see edit up here but this isn't the edit that we're looking for what we want is to click this my first post and now we have the option to click Edit from here it takes you to the admin section where you can edit your post however let's hit back to the main page here and you'll notice some things that we have whenever we hover over we've seen these before these pencil marks and you'll see that when we hover over something we get an outline for instance the title if we select this we can say configure block now configuring this block it's going to allow us to change the actual page title so that's one thing to be aware of you see these pencils all over the place you see this pencil here and you think well maybe I can edit this well the only options occasionally are configure block however if we check out the pencil on the body post here we have quick edit edit and delete now edit is going to do maybe what you would expect and take you to the Edit Page however what is quick edit do if we come to this let's select quick edit and you can see we now have this interesting inline editing tool we can click on this and say my edited post and we can either save this or click off and type in here okay now we can save this and you'll notice it not only saved your text here but it also saved the title itself so we have some quick editing options if you're just coming in here and you see a title for instance I put too many OHS here on hello select quick edit I'm gonna come in here I can now click this and save and I fixed my typo now that's the quickest and easiest way to edit a given post now that works for posts does that also work for pages let's head to about us as you can see we have the Edit tab this time as like we did before and we have this configure block here but we also have the quick edit options that we had for our individual page let's head to home and check out the individual listing here you'll see that we have this listing and if we select this year we can also quick edit this however it's only really giving us the option to quick edit the title the body here however it does when we select it it opens up this hovering WYSIWYG that allows us to really get in here and make some changes to the entire body copy and click out of that so the way you'll most often be editing post is most likely through the post and then edit and then from here you can make your modifications this way you can do things like creating a new revision adding tags like you would expect or having a more overall robust editing experience now let's say you have tons of articles and you don't want to necessarily find the article to get to the edit screen well another way you can find content is by selecting content from your admin bar and we can search here if we searched for about it's finding us our about page we can select edit here you can also filter by published unpublished or any given content type so this is how you edit posts with Drupal make sure that after you made your changes you select save and keep published so now what we can do is just click save and keep published and our post will be fully edited you can see it's taking us back to wherever we just came from and to visit our post we can just click this about us title here and it'll take us to the front end so this is your typical workflow for editing a post in Drupal 8 as always this is Scott would level up tutorials if you want to see the rest of these videos before the release done YouTube had to store that level up tutorials comm and purchase them for download or you can scribe subscribe to level up pro and get all of these videos streaming before they're released has an early access so as always thanks for watching and I'll see in the next one bye

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Keywords: drupal, html, web developer, tutorial, css, javascript (programming language), drupal7, development, how to, drupal (software), series, drupal 8, modules, drupal8, composer, develop, developer, theming, tutorials, drupal video, drupal tutorial, web, web development (interest), website, web development, tuts, drupal theming, web application (industry), web application development (industry), web development (project), web developer (job title)

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Length: 5min 7sec (307 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 18 2016