Chapter 12. Working with Content Types

Order. Family. Genus. Species. Biologists know all about the importance of finding similarities between organisms. When you’re building Web sites, you need to look for patterns too. These patterns are used to create content types that accurately capture all the information you need to store and display to your site visitors. Creating custom content types allows you to get really fine-grained control of the display of your content too.

Throughout this chapter, you will learn what makes up the individual units of content in Drupal and how to customize them to suit your needs. By the end of this chapter, you will have created your first custom content type with eight unique types of fields. And you won’t have ...

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