About content types
To display a list of all content types on your site, click Administer > Content Management > Content types.
All posts that exist on your site are instances of one of these content types. Drupal comes with two pre-configured content types with different default configured behaviors as examples. Feel free to rename, configure, change, delete as your site needs dictate.
- Page - A page, similar in form to a story, is a simple method for creating and displaying information that rarely changes, such as an "About us" section of a website. By default, a page entry does not allow visitor comments and is not featured on the site's initial home page.
- Story - A story, similar in form to a page, is ideal for creating and displaying content that informs or engages website visitors. Press releases, site announcements, and informal blog-like entries may all be created with a story entry. By default, a story entry is automatically featured on the site's initial home page, and provides the ability to post comments.
Content types have their own properties. To change an existing content types configuration choose edit. Your choices may vary depending on enabled modules. Default configuration options are:
Identification
The information that helps identifies the content type
- Name - The human readable name of the content type.
- Type - The machine-readable name of the content type.
- Description - A description of the content type, typically entered by the site administrator.
Submission form settings
The fields and forms available to the content type. Additional modules can add options.
- Title field label - typically Title.
- Body field label - typically Body.
- Minimum number of words - default to 0.
- Explanation or submission guidelines - typically blank but can be useful for setting user expectations towards content submission.
Workflow settings
Default behavior for the content type. Users with the administer nodes permission will be able to override these options. Default available options are
- Published - When content is submitted, it will be publically accessable.
- Promoted to front page - Promoted to the default Drupal front page (set to /node)
- Sticky at top of lists - Post will remain at the top of a given list. This applies to forums, the front page, a given taxonomy list.
- Create new revision - If content is edited, it will automatically save the previous version.
Comment settings
With Drupal 6 comment configuration settings are now set per content type. The intial settings determine the relavance of the remaining ones.
Default comment settings:
- Disabled
- Read only
- Read/Write
If comments are disabled, no comments will be visible. Set to Read only effectively locks a given thread. Read/Write allows comments to continue by users with appropriate rights.
Default display mode:
- Flat list - collapsed
- Flat list - expanded
- Threaded list - collapsed
- Threaded list - expanded
The default view for comments. Expanded views display the body of the comment. Threaded views keep replies together.
Default display order:
- Date - newest first
- Date - oldest first
The default sorting for new users and anonymous users while viewing comments. These users may change their view using the comment control panel. For registered users, this change is remembered as a persistent user preference.
Default comments per page:
Default number of comments for each page: more comments are distributed in several pages.
Comment controls:
- Display above the comments
- Display below the comments
- Display above and below the comments
- Do not display
Position of the comment controls box. The comment controls let the user change the default display mode and display order of comments.
Anonymous commenting:
- Anonymous posters may not enter their contact information
- Anonymous posters may leave their contact information
- Anonymous posters must leave their contact information
This option is enabled when anonymous users have permission to post comments on the permissions page.
Comment subject field:
Can be set to Diabled or Enabled. Can users provide a unique subject for their comments?
Preview comment:
Can be set to Optional or Required. Forces a user to look at their comment by clicking on a 'Preview' button before they can actually add the comment
Location of comment submission form:
- Display on separate page
- Display below post or comments
How do I get the "Add new comment" in D6?
I've set up my site to show the comment entry form on a separate page. On the D5 version of the site, there is a link "Add new comment" at the bottom of the page, but I can't find a way to add that in D6. Is there a setting for this somewhere? It doesn't seem to be part of the theme, or at least I can't find it. I remember looking for this for a long time in D5, but can't remember any more how I did it in the end.
Any help would be appreciated, since this is the last thing that's keeping me from switching the site over to D6.
EDIT: of course, right after posting this, I went back and found it. This line does all the magic in the theme.
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a typo
'Disable' is spelt as 'Diabled:
"Comment subject field:
Can be set to Diabled or Enabled"
Node Types
More importantly, creating different node types can make management and creating of nodes much easier for less web-educated persons.
Node Types can be laid out in a way that corresponds with a task; IE: The user wants to post a new Recent Event article and this should go into the Recent Event taxonomy. All the user would have to do is create a node with the Article type and select from the drop-down for the taxonomy that contains Recent Event.
When the user submits the article he/she can feel confident in where the node went. It is also easier to search for when trying to find a node... especially if you have 200+ nodes.
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