Drupal Editorial Workflow

The configuration that lets a team run content: the roles editors log in as, the content permissions those roles carry, and the moderation state machine that moves a page from draft to published. Provision roles and workflow as separate, composable pieces — the workflow emits transition IDs, the role grants the permission to use them.

Roles & Permissions

I need to...	Guide	Summary
Decide how many editorial roles and which content permissions each gets	Editorial Role & Permission Model	Editorial roles are composed from own/any permission PAIRS (create, edit own/any, delete own/any, view own/any unpublished). Drupal CMS ships one content_editor role whose permissions accrete across recipes; demo_umami ships a two-tier author/editor split. Grant permissions via config actions, never is_admin.

Content Moderation

I need to...	Guide	Summary
Author a moderation workflow's states and transitions	Content Moderation State Machine	The workflows.workflow.* config shape, states vs transitions, the core editorial vs Drupal CMS basic_editorial variants, and enabling moderation on a bundle via the add_moderation config action.
Turn on moderation for a content type that already has content	Enabling Moderation on Existing Content	The silent backfill gotcha — existing revisions get no moderation state until resaved — and how to batch-backfill them safely.