When you're creating or editing content on your Drupal Gardens website, there are several settings panes that control various things about your content at the bottom of the page: when and how your content will appear in menus, its URL, whether users can comment on it, whether it is published or unpublished, and more.
Default settings
You can use the default settings for the content type that you're using (such as a blog entry or article) or you can modify them to better meet the needs of the specific content that you're creating or editing.
If you find yourself making the same settings changes over and over again, you can change the default settings for any of your content types to include your settings. To do this:
Go to Structure > Content types .
Find the content type for which you want to edit its default settings, and then click its edit link.
Modify the default settings for the content type.
Click Save content type .
Note: The new default values only affect new content.
For example, if by default you want your site visitors to be able to comment on any new basic pages you create on your website, you can set the default comment settings for basic pages to Open. Any newly created basic pages include a user comment section by default.
Settings panes
Menu settings
Provide a menu link - Select this check box to create a menu item for the content that you're creating. This makes sense for relatively static content, such as an "About us" page. Blog posts, photos in photo galleries and other, more ephemeral content can be sorted into dynamic lists, blocks and pages and linked to in other ways rather than creating a specific menu item for each one.Menu link title - This text appears as the content's menu item.Description - This text appears as a "tool tip" when site visitors hover over the menu link.Parent item - Structure > Menus . They are enabled and positioned on the Block page at Structure > Blocks .
If you don't add a menu item for your content, or if you add it as a top-level menu item, its "breadcrumb trail" will be "home" only - that is a single link to your front page.
If you make your content a child of a top-level parent item ("History of the French Automobile Industry" in this case), its "breadcrumb trail" includes its parent(s) as well as the "home" link.
Weight - By default, menu items are sorted and displayed alphabetically. Giving them relative "weights" allows you to sort them as you need. For more information about weighted sorting, see the weight glossary entry .
Book outline
The Book module must be enabled for you to be able to organize your content in books and for this pane to be available.
Book - The Book module must be enabled to make these options available. Select an existing book on your site for the new page to be a part of or "create a new book" to make the new page the top-level page of a new book (the first chapter, if you will). Select "none" to save the page outside of any book.Parent item - If the book you are adding a page to already has pages, you can select any existing page to be the new pages's "parent". This makes the parent page a chapter or section
header.Weight - By default, chapters, sections and pages will be sorted and displayed alphabetically by page title within their hierarchical level. You may change this order by giving one or more children of any parent a "weight" value: A "lighter" item with a lower number will "float" higher in a list than a "heavier" item with a higher number (and hence a heavier "weight").
Revision information
Create new revision - Select this check box and enter a revision log message to keep track of important points in your site's or content's development. Your Drupal website keeps all content revisions, allowing you to track approvals, launch versions, editorial policy, and so on.
URL path settings
The Path and Pathauto modules must be enabled for this pane to be available (they are enabled by default when you create your Drupal Gardens site). To find the automatic URL generation settings for your site, go to Configuration > URL aliases and go to the "Automated alias settings" tab. Your content's URL does not affect its "breadcrumb path" .
Automatic alias - Select this check box to have your Drupal site generate a human-memorable and search-engine-friendly URL (address) based on the title of the content you are creating.
Any content (a blog post, article, static page, etc.) on a Drupal site has a URL something like http://example.drupalgardens.com/node/128573 - this is neither memorable for site visitors, nor can search engines extract useful information from this when indexing your website.
Drupal Gardens uses the Drupal Path and Pathauto modules to provide URL aliases (an alias is a second URL where your content can be found) for content. For example a blog post called "What I did during summer vacation" will be aliased to something like http://example.drupalgardens.com/what-i-did-my-summer-vacation.
You can see and change the settings used to do this by clicking "automated alias settings" in the URL path settings form.
URL alias (set a page address manually) - You may choose to add a URL alias of your choice, by deselecting the Automatic alias check box and than entering an alias, such as "about". Your page will then be available at http://example.drupalgardens.com/about.
Comment settings
The Comments module must be enabled for this pane to be available. If you didn't enable the Comments feature while creating your site, simply follow the instructions in the Comments help page .
Comment settings open/closed - On content types such as a static "About us" page, you probably don't want site visitors to be able to leave comments. On other content however, such as blog posts and forums topics, you probably do.Can anonymous visitors leave comments? - You can decide this for yourself by deciding which user roles should be allowed to leave comments. Give the Post comments permission to those you wish to allow to contribute.
Authoring information
Authored by - Enter your username for it to be displayed on the content you are creating. If you leave this field blank, the content will appear as authored by "anonymous".
How do I stop the authoring information from being displayed at all? - You can stop the "submitted by Username on date" information from appearing on specific content types. You may wish to have this information displayed on blog posts, but not on your static pages. Go to the Content types page at Structure > Content types , clicking edit for the content type you wish to change and selecting or deselecting the Display post information check box in the "Display settings" pane at the bottom of the page."Authored by" sets ownership of content and goes beyond whose name is displayed as the author.
You may set the content author to be another user on your site.
If your site has blogs by several authors, accrediting the content to another author also displays it in that author's blog page.
Accrediting content to another author can also affect who may edit, publish or delete it, depending on how you have set up user permissions on your site. For example, you may lose the ability to edit the content if you only have the "edit own" permission for the given content type.
Authored on - In most cases, you can simply leave this blank and the current date and time will be displayed. You may also enter a date and time of your choosing.
(Re)Setting publishing time and date - When you publish content that was saved "unpublished", the time and date the content was originally created will be shown. If you want the time you actually publish the content to be shown instead, clear the "Authored on" field when you publish it.View and front page sorting - The "Authored on" time and date affect sorting content in chronological order, like on the the default front page and in Views .
Date/time formats - Depending on where you and your site visitors live, you may need to use a particular time/date display format. Several are available by default on the Types tab of the Date and time page at Configure > Date and time ; simply select the appropriate long, medium and short display formats. If none of these formats suits your needs, you may create custom formats by clicking "Add format" on the Formats tab of the Date and time page at Configuration > Date and time .
Promotion settings
Promoted to front page - Using the standard configuration, your Drupal Gardens site's front page is a blog-style chronological list of content, newest first. Content marked "Promoted to front page" appears here. This is a good setting for blog posts, press releases or similar content where the release time or date can be important. It is not a good setting for "timeless" content like an "about us" page including driving instructions, store hours, and so on.Sticky at top of lists - Setting a piece of content to "sticky at top of lists" places it at the top of any chronologically sorted page it appears on for as long as it remains "sticky". This kind of page includes the standard front page, forum pages and Simple Views. Newer content that would normally supersede it appears below it instead. This functionality is commonly used for important announcements on the front page of a website or to present moderation and behavior guidelines in user forums.
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