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Understanding Drupal default menus - Drupal Tutorial
From the course: Drupal 7 Essential Training
Understanding Drupal default menus
There are some things that have been right in front of our faces this whole course and yet we haven't mentioned them. I am talking about the menus. You will notice the main menu right here, which we have been adding tabs to and then we have this user menu up here. I am not talking about these two bars at the top, which are the toolbar and shortcut bar, but rather the things that are part of the main page that everybody who visits the site sees. When we added these links here, we never really questioned how this Home link got here or why these links would appear in this menu. When we switch to a user who is not logged in, this menu disappears. Let's talk about this a little bit. There are three areas in Drupal where you control menus. The first one is a listing of all menus on the site and I'll show you that by going back to my administrative interface, going up to Structure, and then clicking Menus. These four menus, Main, Management, Navigation and User, come with Drupal by default…
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