Drupal 8 for Content Editors
It’s no secret that Drupal is incredibly powerful when it comes to its capabilities as a content management system. Many businesses choose Drupal not only because of the lower cost that comes with it being open source, but also because it can be customized to build out the exact features that they need. But how does it stack up for the content editors?
At Zivtech, we recently launched our new Drupal 8 site. As a member of the marketing team, I spend a significant amount of time writing and editing our site’s content, whether that’s static services page content, upcoming events, or new blog posts. Needless to say, I want the experience to be intuitive, very user-friendly, and headache free. And I definitely don’t want to have to bother our developers with questions about where to find things or how to make edits.
Drupal 8 has seen improvements in a lot of areas when compared to Drupal 7, and content editing is no exception. Here are some of my favorite content editing improvements in Drupal 8.
A WYSIWYG is Included in Core
Drupal is comprised of its core codebase, and then thousands of modules that can be added for custom functionality. A WYSIWYG (meaning “what you see is what you get”) is used to provide standard text editing options when adding content across an entire site, and used to require separate module installation in Drupal 7.