Default fields in PW

[Gazley]

Hi there,

I have my default basic site installed that has a few templates and fields. Are there any default fields in PW? I would like to clear this site down and start from scratch but don't want to delete anything that should be there.

Thanks

--Gary

[DaveP]

I think that only 'Title' and its lower case url version 'name' are system fields and required, but a lot of the time 'Title', 'Headline', 'Summary' & 'Body' are a natural fit for most pages.

• Title is fairly self-explanatory
  
• Headline is a bit longer version of Title, for navigation link text and meta title
  
• Summary is a brief summary of what the page is about and might appear also in search results and as page meta description
  
• Body is the main body text of the page
  

On most pages, I tend to leave them all available, even if not populated. This kind of code snippet

<?php echo $page->get("headline|title"); ?>

prints the page Headline, or Title if the headline is empty, and you will see variations of this used in the default install.

[Gazley]

That's great advice! Cheers Dave.