Understanding content types

A content type is essentially a collection of fields used to hold the various items that together form the whole of the content. In the case of the piece of content that we have been using, it is an example of the Article content type, which is one of the two content types that are present when you first create a new Drupal site, with the other being the Page content type.

If you think of a company's job application, every application contains the same fields for entering information, even though the information differs from one to another. In this example, the job application is a content type. Let's take a look at the Article content type in terms of how Drupal provides it.

To navigate via the admin menu, click Structure. Then, on the next page, click Content types, which will lead to a page that you can also reach via the browser instead at /admin/structure/types, as shown in the following screenshot: