Use Entry Types for the Love of... Clients

Entry Types are the under-appreciated heroes of Craft CMS. With properly used entry types you can create a content model that allows your clients the freedom they expect from a modern CMS. In this session, Stephen will show you how they use Entry Types in our builds at Foster Commerce for both Twig and Nuxt headless projects. For a little spice, we'll explore the edge cases and some arguments against using them. By the end, you'll be singing the praises of Entry Types and we'll start a fan club.

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2. Stephen Callender Speaker Owner, Strategist, Mover & Shaker
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6. Use Entry Types
7. Use Entry Types for the Love of… Clients
8. 1. Craft’s section types 2. Entry types 3. Assumptions about the expectations of a CMS 4. When to use Entry Types vs Singles 5. (If time) Twig and Nuxt 2 examples
9. Section type Channel Structure Single For content that’s: A uniform collection Varied but interrelated Standalone Relationship to other entries Flat Hierarchical Independent URI format Shared Shared & nested Unique Number of entries Many One or more Exactly one Manual sorting No Yes N/A Multiple entry types Yes Yes No
10. What’s an entry type? “A set of input fields that belong to a Section.” https://craftcms.com/docs/getting-started-tutorial/configure/modeling.html#assets
11. 1. ✅ Craft’s section types 2. ✅ Entry types 3. Assumptions about the expectations of a CMS 4. When to use Entry Types vs Singles 5. (If time) Twig and Nuxt 2 examples
12. A cornerstone of any content management system is to provide — for people who don't know how to write HTML — a no-code way to update a website within some organizational and design constraints.
13. 1. It should allow nesting of pages. 2. It should allow creating pages from reusable templates. CMS Bare Minimum Assumptions
14. Listing Page as Entry Type Example
15. Listing Page as Entry Type Example
16. Listing Page as Entry Type Example
17. Listing Page as Entry Type Example
18. Listing Page as Entry Type Example
19. But what if the client deletes the page?
20. But what if the client deletes the page? ❌ 1. Let them! 2. Trust them! 3. Use permissions.
21. “Don’t use architecture to solve a permissions problem.” — Katie Fritz
22. Contact Page as Entry Type Example
23. Contact Page as Entry Type Example
24. Contact Page as Entry Type Example
25. But what if the client moves the page, messing with SEO concerns?
26. But what if the client moves the page, messing with SEO efforts? ❌ 1. Let them! 2. Trust them! 3. What if they want to improve SEO?
27. 1. It should allow nesting of pages. 2. It should allow creating pages from reusable templates. CMS Bare Minimum Assumptions
28. 1. It’s the homepage. 2. It’s a utility page that exists whether there’s an entry in Craft or not. So when is a Single a good idea?
29. 1. Create a “redirect” entry type. 2. Create a “hidden” entry type. Cool things you can do with entry types
30. Setting up the “Pages” entry URI format
31. Setting up the “Pages” section templates
32. Setting up the “Pages” routing in Nuxt 2
33. Setting up the “Pages” routing in Nuxt 2
35. Entry Types are the under-appreciated heroes of Craft CMS. Specifically, Entry Types within a Structure section.
36. 󰚦 @sjcallender