Content Types

Pages or content on jaris, can be classified as different kind of types, to easily customize the information they store and display by adding custom fields to them. Also the appearance of content types can be customized by creating a unique template file for each type that will override the default one. The default content type shipped with Jaris is a Page, this content type is a typical section that contains a title and content. What if you want to create a specialized page to display information about different artists? This pages could contain information such as: Name, Biography, Birthday, etc...

So lets say we want to add a new content type for artists:

  1. Click Content

  2. Click Add Type

  3. Enter a valid machine name that only contains lower case letters from a-z and dashes to separate words.

    Example: artists

  4. Enter a human readable name.

    Example: Artists

  5. Enter a description for the content type.

    Example: Page that displays biography information of an artists.

  6. Select the categories that apply to the content type.

  7. Enter an optional custom uri scheme that will be automatically generated for every page created for the content type.

    Example: artist/{title}

  8. Select the default input format for the content type.

  9. Optionally customize the labels and description for Title and Content.

    Example: Title -> Artists Name, Content -> Biography

  10. Click Save


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Related Sections

  1. Content
    1. Pages
    2. Content Types
    3. Categories
    4. Input Formats