Deleting a Content Type

Deleting a Content Type with Amber Matz In this tutorial, we’ll walk through how to delete a content type. By the end of this tutorial, you will understand how to delete the unneeded content type Article. To follow along, you should understand how to login and navigate the administrative pages in Drupal. See the written tutorial for a link to this prerequisite, if you need a refresher. In the Manage administrative menu, navigate to Structure, then Content types. This is the path admin/structure/types. The Content types page appears. In the row for the Article content type under Operations, drop down the Manage fields menu and select Delete. Before it’s deleted, a confirmation page is displayed. The associated configuration items which make up the Article content type are listed here. Be sure to check this list for any unwanted configuration deletions. This is your last chance to check before you delete this content type. Now click Delete. After you click Delete, the Content types page appears again with a confirmation message saying that the content type has been deleted. In this tutorial, we walked through the steps of how to delete a content type, and we deleted the unneeded content type Article.