Managing fields using the Field UI
Managing fields in Drupal 8 is quite simple and is just a matter of choosing the type of field we want to add and configuring it. By default, Drupal adds a Body
field for managing basic content. We can choose to use this field to capture formatted data, but since we have not created any post content, we can also choose to delete this field and create all new fields.
Deleting fields
Deleting a field using the Field UI only requires that the field is not being reused across multiple content types and that the field has no data stored in it. Since this is a new instance of our Post content type, we can delete the Body
field by selecting Delete
from the drop-down button next to the field name:
Once we choose to delete a field, we will be prompted by Drupal, asking us to confirm our selection. We can complete the process by clicking on the Delete
button once more.
Now that we have only the Title field attached to our Post content type, we will need to add some new...