---json
{
    "canonical": ":page:type",
    "name": "Page Type",
    "page_id": "zvg4ledspi18q5c2or8cy"
}
---
====== ComboStrap - Type of Page ======


===== About =====
''type'' is a [[docs:metadata:metadata|metadata]] that define the type of a page. 

This information is used by:
  * the [[docs:social:facebook|Facebook Social Graph]].
  * and [[docs:social:google|Google Rich Result]]
to set the properties that they required when crawling your website.


===== How to set the value =====
You can set the value in the [[docs:metadata:viewer|metadata manager]]


If not set, the default value is:
  * [[docs:type:website|website]] for the [[docs:page:system:index#root|root home page]]
  * [[docs:page:system:index|home]] for other [[docs:page:system:index|home page]]
  * and the value of the [[#configuration|default configuration]] for the others ([[docs:type:article|article]] at installation time)
 
===== Values and Schema Mapping =====

The table below maps the ''type'' value with the value supported of the schema used by [[docs:social:facebook|facebook]] and [[docs:social:google|google]]

^ Value ^ Facebook (og) ^ Google \\ (ld-json) ^ Description ^
| [[docs:type:article|article]] \\ [[docs:type:article|news]] \\ [[docs:type:article|blog]] | [[https://ogp.me/#type_article|article]] \\ [[https://ogp.me/#type_article|article]] \\ [[https://ogp.me/#type_article|article]] | [[https://schema.org/Article|Article]] \\ [[https://schema.org/NewsArticle|NewsArticle]] \\ [[https://schema.org/BlogPosting|BlogPosting]] | A published page. The content is mostly text and it will change slowly after publication - blog, newspaper, .. |
| [[docs:type:organization|organization]] | [[https://ogp.me/#type_website|website]] | [[https://schema.org/Organization|Organization]] | A page with your organization metadata |
| [[docs:type:website|website]] | [[https://ogp.me/#type_website|website]] | [[https://schema.org/Website|Website]] | A page with metadata about website (and search box) |
| [[docs:page:system:index|home]] | [[https://ogp.me/#type_website|website]] | [[https://schema.org/WebPage|WebPage]] | A web page |


===== Configuration =====

==== defaultPageType ====
The ''defaultPageType'' [[docs:app:configuration|configuration]] permits to set the default ''type'' value of a page except for the home page that has a default value of [[docs:type:website|website]].

By default, the value is [[docs:type:article|article]].