Creating New Pages

This section covers the three types of pages that can be created in Drupal: Standard Pages, News Story Pages, and News Links.

• Standard Page - Most pages created in Drupal are standard pages. These are all-purpose pages used for many different kinds of content.

• News Pages - News pages are intended specifically for news stories that appear in the News Feed component. The News Page has additional fields to support news syndication including: Author, Post Date, Thumbnails, Abstracts. This page type also includes social media sharing. This page type is typically used by the Communications Office and those departments that write their own news stories.

• News Links - Is a specialized page type that allow users to include an externally hosted (non-Drupal) story so that it appear in the Drupal News component. This page type is typically only used by the Communications Office to include non Drupal news stories on the Swarthmore website.

3.1 Creating Standard Pages

1. Click on “Site Settings” in the top menu bar.

2. Click on “Add Standard Page”

   

3. This will open the Editor where all the fields are blank. Begin entering in your information:
   1) Title - Give the new webpage a title. This is the only required field.
   2) Subtitle - Give the an page an optional subtitle.
   3) Primary Image - Add an optional image. Learn more about adding images.
   4) Body - Add your page content here.
   5) Components - Add optional components. Learn more about adding components.
   6) Select if you wish to save page in either DRAFT mode or PUBLISHED more. Learn more about publishing.
   7) Click the SAVE Button
   

4. Congratulations! You have created a new page in the Drupal CMS.

5. Here is an side-by-side comparison of what appears in the Editor and what appears on a webpage:

3.2 Creating News Pages

1. Click on “Site Settings” in the top menu bar.

2. Click on “Add News Page”

   

3.3 Creating News Links

1. Click on “Site Settings” in the top menu bar.

2. Click on “Add News Link”