How it works...

The Content page is a View, which will be discussed in Chapter 3, Displaying Content Through Views. This creates a table of all the content on your site that can be searched and filtered. From here, you can view, edit, or delete any single piece of content.

In Drupal, there are content entities that provide a method of creation, editing, deletion, and viewing. Nodes are a form of a content entity. When you create a node, it will build the proper form that allows you to fill in the piece of content's data. The same process follows for editing content.

When you save the content, Drupal writes the node's content to the database along with all of its respective field data.