In this video I go over content types in Drupal and how you can add your own content type. The first question you may ask is why have different content types? Being that to Drupal they are all nodes, why not categorize them?

To answer that I'll pick on the two default content types that come with Drupal... pages and stories. To Drupal these are both nodes but by being different content types, I can have different settings. Pages are not promoted to the front page by default while stories are. Pages do not allow comments while stories do. Each content type can have it's own set of 'features'. This is why you want to have content types. You can create your own content type and then create your own set of features for that content type.

In the video I create a new content type called Press Releases. I tell it I do not want comments, but I want it on the front page. Content Types allow me to do this.

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