Mastering Drupal 8

Creating custom content types

One of the most important steps to consider before blindly developing custom content types is to think of how content will be used. In most cases, a content audit is a preliminary step that should be taken. A content audit is quite easy to conduct, beginning with just asking two questions: how will the content be used and how will it be displayed?

If we look around the web, we can easily identify a common content type used on blogs, known as a Post. By understanding how a Post will be displayed, we can identify some of the fields we will need, such as the date the Post was created and the author of a Post. Also, most Posts contain some sort of media, generally consisting of an image or possibly a video. Using ...