Custom itemtypes are pre-formatted items. You, as the developer of the site, define a custom-itemtype. Other admin-users can then make or edit items of that itemtype. This is great because:
- you can format an item
example: 1 image width=50px right of the text with a link underneath class="readmore"
- you can add fields to an item
a normal item only has 1 editor, now you can use as many fields as you like.
- you can stop administrators breaking the layout
for example by restricting the maximum size of an uploaded image.
- you can use all the content-plugins in Joomla in any number of editors
- fields are instantly searchable
- 'read more' link optional
- template manager with optional different templates for categoryblog-view and full-view.
- PHP-fieldtype for dynamic content, either generated when item gets saved or on -the-fly!
example template:
any field in any layout
field types are (for now):
editor, text, image, item-publish-date, item-author, item-modified-date, checkboxes , radio, select, HTML, textarea,
link, custom-read-more-link, read-more-url, item-hits, item-version, youtube,
item-title
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