Content types

A content type is one kind of content your site holds. Every site starts with Posts. This page shows how to add more kinds, like Pages or Guides, and how each kind gets its own addresses.

Open Content Types in the admin menu. The table lists every registered type, the address it answers under, and what may be done to it.

Registering a type

Press Add New Type and give it a singular and a plural name, like Guide and Guides. Gophenberg derives the rest: the plural becomes the route word, so Guides answer under /guides.

The new type appears in the admin menu right away, with the same list screen and editor Posts have. Press Fields on a type to give its items typed fields of their own, covered in fields.

Addresses and the route word

The route word is the first part of every address a type serves. A guide with the slug first-steps answers at /guides/first-steps.

One type owns the root of the site instead of a route word. It is marked Default in the table, and its items answer at /{slug} directly. Press Make default on another type to hand the root over.

Change address moves a type to a new route word. Every address of that type moves with it, at once, including nested items. Links kept outside your site to the old addresses stop working, which is why the dialog asks you to confirm.

Nesting

A type marked Nests can hold items inside items. The editor’s Document panel then offers a Parent select, and a child’s address carries the chain of its parents: /pages/about/team is the page team inside about.

Nesting goes at most ten levels deep. An item holding children cannot be trashed until its children move or go first.

Turning a type off

Deactivate hides a type without deleting anything. Its menu entry, its archive, and its items stop being served, and everything comes back with Activate.

Delete removes a type for good, and is refused while the type still holds content. The default type can be neither deactivated nor deleted, so the root always answers.