Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 5 ■ Content Types
There are other optional settings that you should consider carefully when creating a new content type.
First are the publishing options. In the left vertical menu, click the “Publishing options” tab (see Figure 5-4).
Figure 5-4. Publishing options
Depending on whether you want content to be automatically published (made viewable on your site
immediately upon saving) and whether you want the content to automatically appear on the homepage
of your website, you may wish to adjust these options. For our Event content type, we want an Event to be
automatically published when they are saved, but we don’t want them to automatically show up on the
homepage. So we will uncheck the “Promoted to front page” check box. We can also set whether an Event is
sticky at the top of lists (meaning that, in a list of various content types on a page, the Event content would
always be at the top of the list), and whether we want to automatically create a new version of a content item
created as an Event when the author makes an update (typically a good idea, but it depends on whether
you want the ability to see the changes made to an individual piece of content over time, and the ability to
republish a previous version in the case where the current version is incorrect). For our Event content type,
we’ll check the “Create new revision” check box.
The next set of options is for display settings. Click the “Display settings” tab in the left column to reveal
the option that is available with this configuration parameter (see Figure 5-5). You can set whether Drupal
should display the name of the author who created the Event content item and the date that the item was
authored. Let’s say in our case we don’t feel that having the author and date published is relevant, so we’ll
uncheck that box. You may, depending on the type of content being authored, decide that it is important to
display the author’s name and the date that the content was published. If so, leave the box checked.
Figure 5-5. Display settings
The final set of parameters defines the menu options that are presented to the author. Click the “Menu
settings” tab to reveal the menu parameters (see Figure 5-6). The “Available menus” section lists the menus
on which this content item may optionally appear. During content creation using this content type, the
author will have the ability to specify whether the content item being created will appear as an item in
the selected menu. In the example shown in Figure 5-6, the only menu that will appear as available to the
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