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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.

Hello,

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

Pierre M.

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.

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.

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