This module provides some additional features and the ability to set default settings for content type options, such as 'Promoted to front page', 'Display author and date information', etc.

Added features:

  • Set default values for common content type settings (see below) - you can still override the defaults per content type
  • 'Save and New' button to add new nodes of the same type right after saving
  • 'Save and Edit' button to save a node and continue working on it (great for long posts so you don't have to worry about losing all of your information).
  • User permissions for content type duplicated on content type add/edit page
  • Sets a maximum length (26 characters) for 'Add new field' and 'Add new group' (if field_group module is enabled) machine names to prevent submitting the form and getting an error message
  • Add a 'Save' button to the top of the 'manage fields' form
  • Auto-populate new field machine name, new group machine name, and existing field label on manage field forms
  • Add a 'Cancel' button to node edit forms
  • Ability to set node title visibility when viewing node
  • Ability to hide title of front page (takes precedence over content type setting)
  • Ability to add form submission buttons to top of 'Manage fields' content type forms and/or node edit forms.
  • Ability to remove body field on content type creation.
  • Ability to set description field in content type edit form to required.
  • Add pathauto alias on content type edit page.

Set defaults for:

  • Title field
  • Preview button
  • 'Save and New' button (with configurable text)
  • 'Save and Edit' button (with configurable text)
  • Published
  • Promoted to front page
  • Sticky at top of lists
  • Create new revision
  • Display author and date information
  • User permissions
  • Node title visibility per content type
  • Scheduler module.

Currently only in dev release:

  • Issue #2867457: Allow changing Cancel & Delete button values

Submit any feature requests/bugs to the issue queue!

Installation

  • Install as you would any other normal module.
  • Navigate to admin/structure/types/defaults to setup your defaults (this step is not necessary if you like all of Drupal's default settings).
  • When viewing a content type add/edit page you will have the additional options presented to you (listed in 'Added features' above) and your defaults will be applied (if you are creating a new content type and you have setup customized defaults).

I know that there are other modules that provide some of this functionality. This module first started out as a means to set customized defaults (which I could not find a module for) and then as time went on I started looking for modules (to set a 'Save and New' button for example) and decided to include it in this module instead of having to install yet another module. If any of those modules would better serve your needs please use them instead. This module is not meant to take over any other module.

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