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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal for Education and E-Learning
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Creating Content Types for the Teacher Blog


In this section, we will outline how to create two content types used in the Teacher blog. This section will refer to the process outlined in Chapter 3. When creating a content type you will need to:

  1. Create the content type

  2. Add fields to the content type (optional—not all content types require additional fields)

  3. Assign a taxonomy to the content type (optional—not all content types will be organized using taxonomy)

  4. Assign permissions to the content type

The Blog Post Content Type

The Blog post content type will be one of the publishing tools available to users in this site. To create this content type, click the Administer | Content management | Content types link, or navigate to admin/content/types.

As described in Chapter 3, to create a new content type, click the Add content type tab.

For the Identification section, use the following values:

Name: Blog post

Type: blog_post

Description: Create a blog post.

In the Submission form settings section,...