School of Social and Political Science

Add a basic page

This page describes how to create a basic page in Drupal, the School’s website content management system (CMS).

1. Create a new basic page

Screenshot showing how to create a new basic page in Drupal, the School’s content management system (CMS)

  1. Click ‘Content’ in the menu bar.
  2. In the dropdown menu click ‘Add content’.
  3. Next select ‘Basic page’.

2. Add content to the page

Screenshot demonstrating how to add content to a basic page

  1. In the ‘Title’ field add the page title.
  2. In the ‘Introduction’ field add a brief introductory paragraph.
  3. In the ‘Content’ box add the page content.
  4. In the ‘Revision log message’ field you can optionally add a message such as ‘Creating new page for <purpose>’.
  5. In the ‘URL alias’ field you can specify a path for the page, e.g. /social-anthropology/about/this-is-the-page-title.
  6. Check the ‘Published’ checkbox if you’d like to publish the page now. If the box is unchecked the page will be saved as a draft which you can publish later.
  7. Click Save to either save and publish the page, or save as a draft.

3. The page has been created

Screenshot showing the successfully created page

The page has been successfully created.