Articles

The only other Content type that is available out of the box with Drupal 8 is the Article.

We touched on this content type earlier in Chapter 4, Getting Started with the UI, but that was only in a simple example. This time you'll look at them in more detail.

Creating a new article

To create a new Article, navigate to Shortcuts | Add content | Article.

Let's look at the extra fields you get with an Article that didn't appear when we created Basic pages earlier. You'll create an article about the company pet as a vehicle for investigating what's different about Articles nodes.

In addition to the Title and Body fields, the Article caters for categorizing the article content using one or more "tags", and it also provides an image field so that ...

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