Post Types

Post Types

Overview

In the most basic explanation, post types are a way to categorize content on your site. Using post types correctly can help with the following:

For site administrators

  • Manage content more efficiently
  • Restrict the types of content that various user roles can create
  • Display content in creative and more efficient ways

For site visitors

  • Better understand the type of content they are viewing
  • Use site search by broken down by post type
  • View content in creative and efficient ways

Learn more about post types in the All About Post Types folder in the knowledge base.

Browse through the post types below to see how they can be used on your site.

The “Overview” Post Type

The Overview post type acts and displays differently than other posts on the site. Here are a few of the more important differences:

  • All body content of an Overview will display on the term page; in Posts, only the teaser will display by default
  • Overviews should not be tagged to more than one navigation term as it breaks the functionality of the Overview on some templates; Posts/Pods can be tagged to as many terms as is necessary
  • Every navigation term should have an Overview, even if it’s just a title that duplicates the navigation term name; not every term will necessarily have Posts/Pods other than the Overview

Image Dimensions
Here is a list of the various image displays used throughout your site

Post

Carousel/Hero

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Pod

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Medium

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Thumbnail

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Square

Calculating Dimensions…

Gallery

Calculating Dimensions…

Post Example
Post Subtitle

Post

The “Post” post type is the default post type on your site. The majority of your content will most likely use the “Post” post type. Use this post type unless your content fits into a more specific category that fits in with another type.

Article Example
Article subtitle

Article San Francisco Chronicle

When you want to share news articles from other publications, use the article post type. This post type by default shows the post type, post date, and source in the teaser. When you create an article post, you’ll see a spot to put the source of the article under the subtitle field. These are all settings that you can change in Post Type Settings.

Robust Webform
Here is an example webform using all basic component types

Webform

Put content here that you want to be seen on each page of the webform (if using page breaks). To see how this webform is configured, click the flyout menu and select Configure Webform.

This webform goes through all basic component types. Each component type has multiple options that can change how the component displays and functions. For in depth explanations of each type, read the knowledge base article titled Webforms: creating, customizing and using. This article also covers other webform settings such as sending submission/confirmation emails, subscribing users to email lists, form behavior, and how to view/download results.

For advanced information on webform validation rules like adding a maximum number of words to a textarea, read the article titled Webform validation (advanced).

Classes Library Example
Image, block quote handling, etc.

Post

This post goes through examples of how to use the advanced classes library to display images, block quotes, and other content different. The example text is taken from Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me?” he thought.

Here is an example of a block quote floated to the right. Block quotes are great!

His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me?” he thought. It wasn’t a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table – Samsa was a travelling salesman – and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment.

Here is an example of an image floated to the left and reduced to 35% width. One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me?” he thought. It wasn’t a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table – Samsa was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. “How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense”, he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn’t get into that position.

Here is an example of an images caption floated to the right. The image and caption together will take up 100% width of the post.

Below is an example of a photo gallery. Add all photos to the gallery by including [ images ] or select specific photos like in this example.

His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me?” he thought. It wasn’t a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table – Samsa was a travelling salesman – and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather.

Here is an example of two images in two columns. This caption belongs to the image on the left and the caption is floated to the left.

Here is an example of text split into three columns. One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. 

Here is the second column. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me?” he thought. It wasn’t a dream. 

Here is the third column. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table – Samsa was a travelling salesman – and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame.

It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. “How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense”, he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn’t get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. 

Here is an example of a block quote floated to the left. Isn’t it pretty?

The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me?” he thought. It wasn’t a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table – Samsa was a travelling salesman – and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there’s the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. 

You can even add lists within columns to condense content. Check out the example below:

  • List item 1
  • List item 2
  • List item 3
  • List item 4
  • List item 5
  • List item 6

Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. “How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense”, he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn’t get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there’s the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. 

Floating an image left or right to wrap it around a list can be difficult. Instead, try adding a list and an image in separate columns to achieve the same look.

  • List item 1
  • List item 2
  • List item 3
  • List item 4
  • List item 5
  • List item 6

Accordions, Tabs, & Tables

Post

Display settings help you display content differently. Most special display features won’t appear post teasers, however, so you need to click through on the post to learn more. You can even override the normal “Read more” to display something more descriptive.

You have most normal HTML elements, such as:

You also have the ability to add accordions and tabs within posts. To set accordions and tabs, open the Display Settings field in the editor below and choose how you would like these elements to behave.

H3 is a tab

Content under H3s will only appear when you click on the tabs.

Heading 4 is an accordion

Content under H4s will only appear when you click on the heading.

  • Unordered List
  • Unordered List
  • Unordered List

Heading 4

Look! More content!

  1. Ordered List
  2. Ordered List
  3. Ordered List

Address

Address Element
Digital Deployment Inc.
2321 P Street 1st Floor
Sacramento, CA 95816

Table

Table Heading Table Heading
Table Cell Table Cell
Table Cell Table Cell

Make sure you set the body format to “Full HTML” to display tables properly.