Axel Raboit EI

Content types and fields

Beyond pages and articles, a site can have types of its own, with their own fields.

A site is not only pages and articles. An agency has projects, a restaurant has dishes, a photographer has series. A content type is created in the back office, and carries the fields it needs.

What a type defines

  • Its name, its address, and whether it has a page listing everything it holds.
  • Its custom fields: number, text, link, email, date, select, checkbox.
  • For each field, whether it is required, and whether it follows the language.
  • The taxonomies attached to it.

This is the difference between bending a site to the tool and bending the tool to the site.