--- title: "Drupal Structure Manager" description: "This section plays an important role in building of drupal website. ‘Structure’ menu or option defined the whole structure of website that means look" author: "Anonymous User" published: 2012-04-05 updated: 2019-09-07 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/904/drupal-structure-manager category: "drupal" tags: ["drupal"] reading_time: 4 minutes --- # Drupal Structure Manager This section plays an important role in [building](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/23088/which-tonewood-is-suitable-for-building-a-guitar) of drupal website. **‘[Structure](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1188/how-to-create-structure-in-c)’** menu or option defined the whole structure of website that means look and feel of website. \ ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/954acdc7-b861-4e7f-a7be-51bb0b2fb194.png) It is having following component which is necessary to build a website. 1. Blocks 2. Contact form 3. Content types 4. Menus 5. Taxonomy These five components play an important role in building of Drupal website. Let’s take a brief idea on above five components. ##### Blocks: Blocks are the boxes visible in sidebar of your drupal website. Most blocks (recent [forum](https://www.mindstick.com/developersection/forum) topics) are generated on the fly by various Drupal modules, but they can be created in the administrator block area of a Drupal website. This page provides a drag-and-drop interface for assigning a block to a region, and for controlling the order of blocks within regions. Since not all themes implement the same regions, or display regions in the same way, blocks are positioned on a per-theme basis. Remember that your changes will not be saved until you click the **‘Save blocks’** button at the bottom of the page. That means in short, configure what block content appears in your site's sidebars and other regions. Click the configure link next to each block to configure its specific title and visibility settings. To open the Structure menu option in admin panel, first of all login in Drupal Administrator Pane and go to **Structure -> Blocks**. ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/c291531f-1c9d-4326-a291-3a669b170e28.png) ##### Add a Block: To add a new block just click on **‘Add block’** option; and fill all appropriate information in text fields. ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/74dde7eb-ec93-4087-ae81-cb5be6aadfb8.png) ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/8f3ef989-b9e6-4d82-b4c4-2085547556e8.png) ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/3a9c63ba-ab98-499d-b074-1298a5ff02a1.png) After filling all appropriate information in text fields, click on ‘Save block’ button. ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/7e260046-6553-4c6a-8790-00305d4f1afa.png) The above message is showing that Blocks will be created successfully. Now you could use it anywhere in drupal website. ##### Contact form: This module expands the [features](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/86404/best-5-rolls-royce-cars-to-buy-with-features-and-price) of the site wide [contact form](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50721/how-to-delete-a-contact-form-your-iphone-8-plus). It eliminates the [drop down](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/287/how-to-add-data-in-drop-down-list) category menu by generating a clean looking contact form (without a drop down menu) with a unique path for each of the contact form categories. You can also define the subject in the link to the form. To open ‘**Contact form**’ in Drupal panel, first of all login in Drupal Administrator Panel and go to **Structure -> Contact form**. ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/28131e21-f983-420d-8adc-acc89b97908f.png) ##### Add Category: To add new category in drupal website, click on ‘Add Category’ link and fill appropriate information in text fields. ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/6cdad1f2-540f-4a39-a899-c8efd7bb4e07.png) After filling all the information in text fields, click on button **‘Save’**. ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/2ac3631b-4525-43c4-8087-8a3846e7c0e2.png) ##### Content types: A single web site could contain many types of content, such as informational pages, [news](https://www.mindstick.com/developersection/news) items, polls, blog posts, real estate listings, etc. In Drupal, each item of content is called a node, and each node belongs to a single content type, which defines various default settings for nodes of that type, such as whether the node is published automatically and whether comments are permitted. To open the content types in drupal, first of all login Drupal Administrator Panel and go to **Structure -> Content types** ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/e75dfcdf-0e0f-48f9-a705-18224c4f5617.png) In Drupal [technology](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/83913/why-should-we-publish-our-technology-related-news-on-the-mindstick-platform), there are basically seven core [content](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12369/cms-extension-for-magento-2-advanced-content-manager-2) types. 1. Article 2. Basic Page 3. Blog Entry 4. Book Page 5. Comment 6. Forum 7. Poll ##### Menus: The Drupal menu system was always much more than what the name suggests. It's not only used to display visible [navigation](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/62/different-navigation-in-asp-dot-net) menus but also to map Drupal paths to their callbacks with proper access checking. This second task is called dispatching. To open the menus in Drupal, first of all login in Drupal Administrator Panel and go to **Structure -> Menus.** ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/cafd65e4-b4bb-4751-8374-54a2b554046f.png) ##### Add New Menu: To add a menu in Drupal, click on ‘Add menu’ link and fill all appropriate information in text fields. ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/8fe04753-27d3-47f9-8604-0fd5751df2bf.png) After filling appropriate information in text fields, click on button **‘Save’.** ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/6c40d137-bb08-4f0f-bc5e-7940c0a41b42.png) ##### Taxonomy: Taxonomy is the practice of classifying things. In Drupal, the Taxonomy module is how you classify your website content, and it is an important piece of many sites' information architecture. Taxonomy is for categorizing content. Terms are grouped into vocabularies. For example, a vocabulary called "Fruit" would contain the terms "Apple" and "Banana". ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/f5b311a1-568d-4e5d-a5a9-139139db5835.png) ##### Add New Vocabulary: To add new vocabulary in drupal website, first of all login in Drupal Administrator Panel and go to **Structure -> Taxonomy -> Add vocabulary;** and fill appropriate information in text fields. ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/fdd88236-1fd8-4b32-8960-f38ee59afb3e.png) After filling appropriate information in text fields, click on button **‘Save’**. ![Drupal Structure Manager](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9d68b1b2-ac5d-4238-8ffa-76838c99dcf0/images/c78d80d2-fdc4-4c77-ad51-520039c57659.png) This is the complete description on ‘Structure’ menu option. I hope you will enjoying it and thanks for reading this article. \ X --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/904/drupal-structure-manager Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.