Content Types

A single web site can contain many types of content. Princeton Site Builder offers commonly used content types, such as informational pages, news, events, people, courses, and more.

What makes each A collection of fields that describe a specific type of content, like a news article, a person, or an event. Site admins can add additional content types by enabling optional modules. WDS can also create custom content types for a site. different is the collection of fields you can input when creating a A individual item of content. For example, a page, a news article, and an event are all content items, which correspond to the Page, News, and Event content types, respectively. of that type. For example, the News content type has a field for published date, author, and source. The Event content type has fields for date, time, and location.

Accordion Item

Add individual accordion items to be shown in an Accordion Item List Block.

Alert

Show a brief message or announcement that can be displayed on either your home page or all pages.

Class

The Class A collection of fields that describe a specific type of content, like a news article, a person, or an event. Site admins can add additional content types by enabling optional modules. WDS can also create custom content types for a site. is used to display basic information about a class you teach or previously taught at Princeton.

Course

Import Princeton courses from a particular term and display them using the Course Offerings by Term List block.

Custom

WDS can create custom content types for your site.

Event

Create a calendar of events, announcements, deadlines or feature your event.

Event Speaker

Create and manage the list of speakers associated with events.

News

Add news and announcements to your website.  

Page

Default A collection of fields that describe a specific type of content, like a news article, a person, or an event. Site admins can add additional content types by enabling optional modules. WDS can also create custom content types for a site. commonly used for most pages of your website. 

Person

Create a people directory or listing for your department, office, center or program. 

Post

Use Post to create date-based content with specific authors.  Examples might include Announcements (different from news), blogs or job postings.

Presentation

Display basic information about a speaking engagement you will be holding or have held. The Event A collection of fields that describe a specific type of content, like a news article, a person, or an event. Site admins can add additional content types by enabling optional modules. WDS can also create custom content types for a site. is the recommended alternative. 

Publications

Use Publications to create a listing of highly-structured bibliographic references from a broad selection of publication types.

Resource Link

Display and categorize links with descriptions and images to internal or external pages and documents. 

Timeline Feature

Create a visual timeline of events, useful for showcasing a schedule or historical information.

Webforms

Use webforms for making forms and surveys for users to submit information to you.