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Drupal - Custom types types

Answer 1

One of the features that makes Drupal one of the most popular content management systems, is its inherent ability at its core to define totally customized content types .

• We click on Structure in the administration bar and then click on the Content Types section.

• In the Content type screen, we click on the Add content type link.

• In Name we enter Recipe as the name of our custom content type.

• In order for our content type to have a base schema in HTML5 based on a recipe, we enter the following address in the description: http://schema.org/Recipe

• For the field of Title field label , enter name . The reason why we change the default text of the Title field field from Title to name is that we are going to model our Recipe-type content type microdata based on HTML5. This will provide a semantic definition of our content to increase the results in any search engine.

• We click on Save .

• Then we eliminate the Body field that is automatically added to our content type. We click on the delete link and then confirm on the next screen.

• Now we will add some new fields to our content type Recipe, the first property to add is the description. We click on Add new field input , we type description, in prefix_label we type description again and in the widget we select Text area and then Save . On the next screen we confirm and press Save field settings .

• On the RECIPE SETTINGS page we enter a brief description of the item, accept the rest of the default settings and click on Save settings .

• Now we will go to the properties of the image, we will use an existing field for this property. In the Add existing field section , enter image as the label. And in the field Field to share we select the option Images: field_image (image).

• We click on the Save field settings button on the FIELD SETTINGS page.

• On the next page, we click on the accept the default settings button for RECIPE SETTINGS and IMAGE FIELD SETTINGS .

• The properties of datePublished and author will be captured by the property nodes of the Drupal kernel.

• For the cookTime property the settings will be: label: cookTime, name: field_cooktime, type: Integer, widget: Text field.

• We click on Save and accept the general settings on the next page.

• On the next page we enter the time in minutes in the field The time it takes to actually cook the dish in minutes.

• The properties of cookingMethod , nutrition , recipeCategory , recipeCuisine and totalTime will be added later.

• For the ingredients property we add the necessary fields and save.

• For the property of prepTime we add the necessary fields and save.

• For the property of recipeInstructions we add the necessary fields and save.

• With all of our added properties we should have our Recipe-type content that looks like this:

Just as we create a content type of Recipe type we can create another of any type without any inconvenience, that adapts to our page and the needs of it.

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