Understanding Drupal paths

Examples of Drupal paths

  • node/3
  • flexinode/7
  • taxonomy/term/6
  • flexinode/list/3
  • user/login (very useful when you disable the login block)

How to find Drupal paths
To find the Drupal path of a certain page, go to admin>>content. You will see a list of all the pages you have created. Mouse over one of the titles and you will see something like this in your browser's status bar (usually on the bottom left, or click on the title and read the address bar when viewing the page):

http://www.example.com/?q=node/54

The last bit after the /?q= is the Drupal path, i.e. node/54.

Keep an eye on your status bar as you mouse over links and you will discover more Drupal paths. And when you go to different pages check out the address in your browser's address bar.

Some other places to find Drupal paths
administer >> categories. Roll the mouse on top of the "edit term" link next to the category (for example, taxonomy/term/6).

Path for categories

fgm - January 22, 2008 - 16:48

Note that administer > categories has become:

  • administration > Content Management > Categories in D5
  • Administer > Content management > Taxonomy in D6

But in both cases, the path remained admin/content/taxonomy.

 
 

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