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## What is a content type?
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Each item in a Plone site is an instance of a particular content type. We have different content types to reflect the different kinds of information about which we need to collect and display information.
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Each item in a Plone site is an instance of a particular content type.
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We have different content types to reflect the different kinds of information about which we need to collect and display information.
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Pages, news items, events, files (binary) and images are examples of content types.
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Pages, news items, events, files (binary), and images are examples of content types.
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Lots of things in Plone can be configured to work differently based on the content type. For example, each content type has:
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## Factory Type Information
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A content type is defined by creating a Factory Type Information (FTI) object.
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A content type is defined by creating a {term}`Factory Type Information` (FTI) object.
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To create an FTI in a GenericSetup profile, add the content type to the list in `types.xml`. For example, this adds the standard Plone page (Document) content type:
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Then, add a file to the `types` directory with the same name.
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In this example, the file is `types/Document.xml` and contains this XML:
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