Is it possible to disable a content type?

Question

I am currently creating a small Drupal 7 website, but I don't plan to use the delivered Article content type. Is it possible to disable it without deleting it? What I mean by that is making sure no user will create articles by accident.

I could not find an option for this. Thanks.

Answer 1

• You can't disable a content type, but you can prevent (almost) everyone from creating/viewing/modifying etc. an Article it with setting the permissions accordingly.
• If there's no Article content on the site, it's 100% safe to delete it. (It's interesting to check out how the default and minimal installation profile provide different sets of content types. Article is just a "stock" content type which is by no means necessary to have.)

Answer 2

For people not familiar with Drupal, you would prevent people from using a content type by going (in 7) People > Permissions (url: admin/people/permissions)

Then under Node unchecking the Article: Create new content permission for the selected roles. :)

Obviously you would change Article to the relevant content type.

Answer 3

In your .install file:

function YOURMODULE_disable() {

  // Disable content type MyContentType
  disable_content_type('MyContentType');


  //Activation message
  drupal_set_message(t('MyContentType is now disabled on your site.'));
}

and now in your .module or .inc file:

function disable_content_type($type) {
  $type_info = node_type_load($type);
  $type_info->module = 'node';
  $type_info->custom = 1;
  $type_info->modified = 1;
  $type_info->locked = 0;
  $type_info->disabled = 1;
  node_type_save($type_info);
}

Answer 4

You can also try the Content Access module to restrict users based on role to a content type. http://drupal.org/project/content_access

Answer 5

There are some content types that can be "disabled" by virtue of disabling the module that uses it. For example: the poll, forum, book and blog content types disappear from the available types when you disable the associated modules. Basic page and article are the two exceptions.