Drupal 9 Edit Basic Page

This page has basic instructions on how to create new pages and edit existing ones.

To learn more about content you can build on Drupal 9, view the SLAC Drupal User Guide.

Logging In

In order to gain editing access for the site, you must first log in to your SLAC account.

If you have not done so already, go to the login URL:    
To the root URL, append '/user'

e.g., https://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/user

Basic Page Paragraph Types

For these pages, you will mainly use WYSIWYG for text and images, but there are many other paragraph types you can add. 

View all the paragraph types on SLAC's Drupal Guide

For example, the Landing Page (a basic page), uses the Section (Configurable Column Layout).

View PDF to see how this Landing Page was created.

Drupal 9 Landing Page Edit PDF

Work with us
Work with Us section on the Landing page made with the Section (Configurable Column Layout) paragraph type

Create Basic Page

Almost all pages you will need to make for this site are a Basic Page. These pages serve many purposes (science content, work with us, landing page).

To create a basic page:

  1. In the top editing menu, 
    >hover over Content, 
    >then hover over Add Content, 
    >then click on Basic Page.
Add basic page

  1. Fill out Basic Page with your content. 

    View the full PDF to see how the Serial Femtosecond Crystallography page was created in detail.

    Full Drupal 9 Edit Screen PDF

 

 

  1. Set Current State of page to Publish, then click Save to finalize all edits.
Basic page