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How to create a content type in Drupal?
Neerav Mehta
Founder & CEO
In this article, you will be learning how to create a custom content type for your Drupal site.
The only pre-requisite for this is that you must have admin rights.
- Start by clicking on Structure.
- Proceed by clicking on Content types.
- Proceed by clicking on the +Add content type.
- Next, add a suitable name for the content type in the Name box and briefly explain its use in the Description box.
- The Title field label is shown when creating this type of content. Add a suitable title in the Title field label box. Leave the Preview before submitting it to Optional.
- Under the Publishing options, choose your default options for your new content type.
- Next, under Display settings, choose whether or not to show author and date information in the content item, by selecting or unselecting Display author and date information.
- Next, under Menu settings choose the menus where you want this content to be added to. Finally, proceed by clicking on Save and manage fields.
- You will be prompted by this message.
- Go to Add content and your newly added content type will be visible.
Neerav Mehta
Founder & CEO
Neerav Mehta is the Founder & CEO of Red Crackle. With sterling qualities, Neerav’s technological acumen is firing a generation of progressive companies on the digital path. With an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from India's most prestigious institution IIT Bombay and having spent seven years developing and contributing to the launch of AMD's innovative line of computer products, Neerav founded Red Crackle where he is lauded for his dynamic and innovative genius.
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