Drupal 8 Beginner, Lesson 16: Introduction to Content Types

Content types are the foundation stone of every Drupal site. Rod explains what content types, introduces nodes, fields and more. Drupal has 2 default content types: Articles and Basic Pages. We're going to build 2 extra content types: user groups and events.

[jclantonjr]

This is absolutely the best drupal training I've seen so far anywhere. So far this has been awesome, the material, the organization of information and especially the instructor. Top of the line stuff guys. Let me get back to my Drupal 8 Beginner training.

[pauls]

I heard that learning Drupal is incredibly difficult. It probably these excellent videos reduce the difficulty level significantly. Great work, OSTraining. The way you present is so clear and the modules are nice, easy, bite sized chunks. Thanks for posting.

[uday]

Rod Martin, you are really a great teacher. Thank you for being there.

[MrAverageViewer]

Awesome training, and presentation! I wish all technical training was this good!!

[diggerodell]

Thanks for the videos! The more in this series I watch the more excited I become to use Drupal! I'm new to setting up web sites with only basic knowledge and only had a simple shopping site in the past that never quite worked right. Now set myself up with a new NAS as a server (self hosting), a domain name, and great hopes to build a business, but could never find what I needed to do the job program wise. Tried commerce suites, plus Joomla, Wordpress, etc and nothing was capable. I could never quite grasp how to make even the simple stuff work, and there wasn't much for even basic tutorials. I was getting desperate enough I was looking to hire someone else to do it but knew I couldn't afford it at this point.
I kept hearing how difficult Drupal is to work with. I think not! Everything I've seen is well laid out and intuitive. Maybe because it's put together in a modular fashion like the machine programming languages I've been using for decades?

[babinio]

Another great tutorial on Drupal content types!

[SebastianFlamant]

Really impressed by these training videos. Very concise and relevant. Thanks for the good content!

[christophermoshier]

I disagree on when you say you can't make said landing page with specific information on any other Content Management System. You can absolutely do that easily with WordPress. I know this video is eight years old. Even eight years ago you could. I've been using WordPress since it came out. Love your videos. Learning a lot. I have to disagree with you on this point.

[ALEXEIS]

This video made returned me back to Drupal.

[texxlady]

I'm using Drupal 8, total newbie here. What content type would you suggest for a project with multiple topics, categories, and sub-categories. For example: states. (topic - state name) (categories - symbols, tourism, and history) and each category might require multiple sub-categories. Also I saw a video (dated 2017) suggesting the use of taxonomy and terms to setup categories (and sub-categories I think, I haven't tried it yet) is that the suggested way to set it up today?

[fatimahalqadheeb]

Is Drupal only for blogs? Or I can use it to manage a website of news and events?

[cathyharrington]

OMG, I closed my training site (localhost) and Acquia Dev Desktop and now I do not know how to get back in....it should be so simple right? I can't find a app/or exec...

[AmalAjith]

The CMS used for IMDB is 'Website baker'. Can someone tell me if it offers any advantages over Drupal?

[joseluisbz]

Hi, I try to listen to you (I'm not native english speaker), but I was reading the Subtitles generated by youtube. Can you change the color of Background, poor combination, Presentation in white Background, Subtitles with Light Gray Background, and Foreground in White for Fonts?, and Using Transparency!!! Then the subtitles is generated very bad! Please use black (Font Color) for Subtitles rectangles!
Please try your self, mute the video and enable subtitles... I tell me if you can read.

[shanefoo]

So... content types are like data types. Nodes are like variables.

[sewomedia]

just mentioning content-types aren't unique to drupal. even wordpress, joomla or processwire allow this... i think others too...