New models / custom content types
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Is extending the Page model the answer to creating new content types like Events, Recipes, Products and so on? Page parts are great but they have limitations. Dates for instance, but also many content types require complex forms that include check boxes, radio buttons and so on. Page parts can’t handle that. So it seems like you either have to create a new model and have it synchronize sort of with the Page model, or you extend the Page model itself to handle these different kinds of content. What are your thoughts on this? |
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I really hope someone would shed some light on this |
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Yeah, new page parts would be cool. Especially custom ones where you can create your own custom fields. |
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I don’t understand this thread, you can put whatever you want in a page part. It can be form fields, text, quotes, code, etc. Take one of my pages, Political Leaning, it has form fields, javascript, and text and there’s no special page part types. |
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This is what we were talking about here |
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Ok, I remember that thread, what are you wanting to put into the page that you can’t already? There’s likely a way to do it already. That page I linked to has everything I mentioned on the page and there’s still no special types to it, it’s just a standard page. |
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Was taking a look at Chyrp, and here are a couple of screenshots of their admin section (in two different styles):
What stands out here is the way they support different kinds of ‘feathers.’ As you can see in the screenshots above, one guy has Quote, the other guy has Review and so on. This is how I imagined different content types would be like in Frog. |
