Editing a content item

Goal

Find a content item and edit it, or update a group of content items in bulk. See Managing content for more about content types and content items.

Who can find and edit content?

Users with the Access the Content overview page permission can use the Content page to find content. Each content type has its own edit permissions. For example, to edit content of type Article, a user would need the Article: Edit own content permission to edit an article they created, or the Article: Edit any content permission to edit an article someone else created. In addition, users with the Bypass content access control or Administer content permission can edit content items of all types. Some contributed modules change the permission structure for editing content.

Steps

1. In the Manage administrative menu, navigate to Content.
2. Optionally, use filters to reduce the list of content items shown:
   • Title: key word(s) from the title
   • Content type
   • Published status
   • Language
   If you enter or select filter values, click Filter to apply the filters.
3. Optionally, sort the list by clicking a column header. Click again to reverse the order.
4. To edit the title or other field values for one content item, click Edit in the row of the content item. Update the values and click Save.
5. A few types of edits can be done in bulk to multiple content items. For example, to publish several unpublished content items, check the boxes in the left column (right column in right-to-left languages) to select the desired content items. For Action, select the Publish content action. Click Apply to selected items to make the change. The other actions under Action work in a similar manner.

Additional resources

• Basic Page Management (Drupal User Guide)
• Editing a Content Item (Drupal User Guide)

Related topics

• Creating a content item
• Creating a URL alias for a content item
• Managing content