Create your own content types?

[jessemd]

Hi,
In the admin area, Content>Pages> Add New Content , can you add your own content types in the 'content types' drop down in addition to 'content', 'external link' etc... I want to be able to add custom types with there own custom fields.  Is there any information on it anywhere?  Thanks so much for the help.

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

what do you want to do ? What new Content types do you need ?

Pierre M.

[jessemd]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.  Basically,  I want to have another item in the drop down for custom content types.  So if I choose a custom content type, the page would display custom fields to fill out.  For example, if I was making a site for a song composer, I would have a content type of "Audio Catalog", which it would display all the custom fields required to add a new song to the catalog. 

Or maybe a content type would be recipes, which would load custom fields to add a recipe page to the site. 

Thanks again Pierre.

[duclet]

You don't need to add a new content type for that. A template for each "type" should be enough. What you'll need to do is move the common components of the template (excluding the {content}, more on this later) to a global content block. Now, just create a new template for each "type" and refer to the global content block for the common elements, and use the {content block="Some Block"} to specify which fields will be available for editing when the user adds or edit a page. There are more options with the {content} tag so look at the documentation for that for more info.

[jessemd]

ok - great! I'll give it a try.  Thanks so much.