Editing the default admin interfaces

With the addition of Views in Drupal core, many of the administrative interfaces are powered by Views. This allows customization of default admin interfaces to enhance site management and content authoring experiences.

Note

In Drupal 6 and 7, there was the Administrative Views contributed module, which provided a way to override administrative pages with Views. This module is no longer required, as the functionality comes with Drupal core out of the box.

In this recipe, we will modify the default content overview form that is used to find and edit content. We will add the ability to filter content by the user who authored it.

How to do it...

1. Go to Structure and then Views. This will bring you to the administrative overview of all existing views.
2. From the Enabled section, select the Edit option from the operations column for the Content view. This is the view displayed on /admin/content when managing content.

 

3. To filter by the content author, we must add a FILTER...