Drupal Gardens comes with a set of standard content types. Some are enabled by particular template features, such as FAQ questions and forums, and others are enabled by modules, such as the Poll module.
Each content type has a set of default behaviors that make it suited to a particular purpose. The default settings can be changed for individual content items of that type or globally for all content of that content type. For example, by default, Articles will always appear on your front page, but you could specify that one particular one should not. You could also change the Article content type's defaults so that Articles never appear on your front page.
You can also modify the standard content types and create your own, custom content types.
Standard content types
Here are some of the basic content types:
- Article - Intended for announcements, press releases and other "time-specific" content.
- Basic Page - Intended for static pages like "about us", mastheads, or similar.
- Blog entry - If your site has multiple contributors, use this content type for blog posts. The posts can all appear (in order of submission) on your front (or other page) and be sorted into single-author blog pages. For more information about the blog feature, see Blog.
- Book page - "Books" in Drupal are sets of content that have been organized into sections (like a book's chapters) and an order (like a book's pages). Books have a built-in hierarchical navigation (previous/next page and up to parent level) and a print view built in.
To add books to your site, enable the Book module. For more information about books, see Books.
- FAQ - A content type with standard "question" and "answer" fields. Enabling the FAQ feature in your site template also creates a page at /faq that displays all of your FAQs. For more information about the FAQ feature, see FAQ.
- Forum topic - Post a forum topic to begin a new discussion thread in your site's forums. For more information about the forum feature, see Forums.
- Poll - Create simple surveys on your site. A poll allows you to put a question to your site visitors and let them choose from a set of answers.
- Webform - Create powerful surveys, multi-page questionnaires, polls, event registration forms, lead generation pages and more in a simple drag-and-drop interface. Each form has built-in basic analysis of the results collected and you can download the data for further analysis and use in any spreadsheet. For more information about the webforms feature, see Webforms.
Content settings
Global content-type settings - You can edit each content type's global default settings: go to the Content types page at Structure > Content types, click "edit" next to the specific content type, modify its settings and save your changes.
Individual content item settings - When adding content, you can specify the various settings for that specific item of content (and override that content type's defaults) at the bottom of the content creation page.
For more information, see the Common content settings help page.