Most of my Drupal experience in the last year has been either purely back-end development, or superficial front-end stuff: JavaScript, AJAX, tweaking templates and styles, that sort of thing. But in the last couple of weeks, in two different small-scale projects, I’ve been digging more into theme development, menu management, and various other issues site admin issues. It’s fascinating stuff, though hard to wrap my head around. Plain old development on the Drupal platform was a lot more straightforward, at least to me. Still, it’s good to get out of my comfort zone, right?
Here’s one particular problem I dealt with, which I had a hell of a time googling for: the client wanted to change the content type descriptions on the “Add Content” (/node/add). It took me some trial and error and googling to find out that’s taken from two places:
- The content type description, as set in each Content Type.
- Overriding that if they exist, the descriptions of the “Add Content” menu item’s children.
There are still a lot of things I’m figuring out, like how to change the text on top of the Add Content page. Seems a simple thing, right? Maybe it is if you know how, but I don’t. It’s definitely not the menu system, though interestingly the menu item description does display as expected on its parent menu page…