What are the types of Content Type?

Contentstack allows you to customize a content type to meet various business requirements, you can create a webpage(s), the partials of your webpage (header, footer, or menu), or experiences in your mobile application.

Contentstack classifies Content Types into three types:

• Single Page Component/Content Type

• Multiple Page Component/Content Type

• Multi-Reusable Component/Content Type

Video: Different Types of Content Types 

The following video shows you how to change a Content Type type and some examples of the different types.

Exercise 2 Video

Follow along with the video to practice building Content Types.

Understanding with an example

• Single Page Component/Content Type - If you want to create one-off pages that have a unique content type structure, you must make them as ‘Single Page Component/Content Type.’ Select ‘Single’ while creating the content type to achieve this. The below diagram gives you an illustration of the same.
  Example: Home Page, About Us Page, Privacy Policy Page, etc. All these pages are one-off pages on a website.

• Multiple Page Component/Content Type - If you want to create multiple pages using the same content type structure, you must create them as a ‘Multiple Page Component/Content Type.’ Select ‘Multiple’ while creating the content type to achieve this. Refer to the diagram below for an example.
  Example: Blog Pages, Product Pages, etc.

• Multi Reusable Component/Content Type - If you need to make multiple entries that are not pages and can be referred to or used as partial components, you should create them as a 'Multi Reusable Component/Content Type.' Select the type ‘Multiple’ while creating the content type, then use it as a ‘Reference’ in any Content Type that contains a reference field. The below diagram illustrates this.
  Example: Authors(for the Blog Pages), Categories(for the Product Pages), etc…

Further Reading

• About Content Types

• About References