One of the more powerful capabilities of Drupal is the ability to create custom content types. Often referred to as a node, we can think of Content types as containers for holding content that has been defined with specific fields, such as a title and a body. However, we are not limited to only those two fields. We can pretty much add as many fields as needed based on how the content itself has been defined.

Something new to Drupal 8 is the Comment field, which can be added to content types, allowing users to comment on the content. Drupal provides this ability out of the box as part of the core with the ability to add Comment types that can have fields of their own. We will look at the default configuration and how to customize comments.

We can also add fields to tag, categorize, or classify content, known as Taxonomy. Categorizing content...