All content on a Drupal website is stored and treated as "nodes." A node is any posting, such as a page, poll, story, forum text, or blog entry. Comments are not stored as nodes but are always tied to one.
Behind the scenes, the nodes module manages these nodes. This module is what lets you
- list, sort through, and manage all the content on your site (on the posts page)
- set norms for how posts are entered and displayed (on the post settings page)
- list and configure the "content types" for your site and create new ones (on the content types page)
Offering "content types" is a way Drupal allows you to have different kinds of nodes for different purposes. For example, a "story" is one kind of node, a "book page" another, and a "blog entry" yet another. You can also create new content types of your own.
On the content types page you can edit a content type to change some of its features. Suppose you've created a content type called "new products." You can have your "create content" page tell your users what kind of products you want them to announce. Your submission form might ask for a title by saying "Tell me the name of the product." And for the body it might ask, "Tell me what this product will do for me." You can also specify various workflow options.
When you want to manage posts, on your posts page you’ll have the option to list only the posts for a particular content type. On your themes page you can decide, for each content type, whether or not each post will display the text "submitted by Username on date." And advanced search allows your users to choose the content types within which to conduct a search.
Beyond this, other Drupal modules can focus on a content type and do much more with it. For example, you might look at what Drupal’s built-in modules do with the content types "book," "poll," or "forum." Contributed modules offer you still further possibilities.
The nodes module also provides a revisions feature, which lets users to whom you give permission create multiple revised versions of posts and revert to a previous version when desired. Such users will see "Create new version" among the Publishing options when they edit a post. And when viewing posts that have revised versions these users will see a Revisions tab, where they can track and manage the various versions.
On your permissions page you can decide who can access content, who can administer nodes, who can create and revert revisions, and who can administer content types. And for each content type, you can decide who can create posts and who can edit them.
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