Set Your Default Content Type

Most people use the default Story/Article content type and vary it with Blog postings.

Set up your common content types. These are in four places.

Administer->Content Management->Content Type-> each content type you use

  1. Comments (if you rely on the permissions, just enable them in all cases; the reason for disabling is to funnel all discussion and comments to a central place instead of scattering them around).
  2. Workflow settings -- Publishing options (default is to publish for most people).

Administer->Site Configuration->IMCE

  1. You may have to set up or customize user profiles.
  2. Assign roles to user profiles. This is where you set the upload file size limits and types, as well as the directories for uploads.

Administer->Site Configuration->Input Formats

  1. Set roles that can use Full HTML (this include image uploads inside stories).

Administer->Content Management->Taxonomy

  1. Set up your terms and under Settings choose Required and Multiple Select so that at least one term is necessary. I don't choose Tags because then anyone can create any term and it becomes a mess in no time at all. Make certain to allow any content type you might like to use taxonomy.