Guide to Zenario CMS content types
Zenario offers a comprehensive range of content types designed to handle any type of website content, from simple pages to complex multimedia experiences.
Each content type comes with specialised features, fields, and management capabilities tailored to specific use cases.
Core content types
These essential content types are available in all Zenario editions and form the foundation of most websites:
HTML Pages
The foundation content type for standard web pages, ideal for static content, landing pages, and general information pages:
- Full WYSIWYG editor with rich formatting options
- SEO-friendly with customisable meta descriptions
- Menu integration and hierarchical organisation
- Multilingual support with translation chains
- Access control and password protection
- Draft/published workflow with scheduled publishing
News articles
For date-sensitive content with automatic release date management, so ideal for press releases, announcements, and news updates:
- Category-based organisation and filtering
- Ability to "pin" articles for greater prominence
- Writer attribution and profile
- RSS feed generation
- Archive of news with ability to group by year or subject
- Search engine optimised for blog content
Ideal for press releases, company announcements, industry news, updates, and time-sensitive communications.
Blog posts
For editorial content with author attribution and chronological organisation, designed for thought leadership and regular publishing:
- Category-based organisation and filtering
- Ability to "pin" articles for greater prominence
- Writer attribution and profile
- RSS feed generation
- Archive of news with ability to group by year or subject
- Search engine optimised for news content
Ideal for thought leadership articles, tutorials, opinion pieces, and regular content marketing.
Document content items
File-based content for downloadable resources with metadata management and access control:
- Multiple file format support (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and others)
- Automatic thumbnail image generation (PDF)
- Full-text search indexing
- System of equivalences across languages
- Download tracking and analytics
- Access permissions by all users, groups, roles or smart group
Ideal for reports, white papers, manuals, forms, presentations, and downloadable resources.
More about document content items here.
Audio files
Audio content with built-in player functionality for podcasts, music, and audio resources:
- Built-in HTML5 audio player
- MP3 format support with automatic conversion
- Duration and file size display
- Mobile-responsive playback
Ideal for podcasts, audio tutorials, music samples, conference recordings.
Events
Time and location-based content with calendar integration and event management features:
- Start and end date/time management
- Location integration with mapping
- Timezone support
Ideal for promoting conferences, workshops, webinars, meetings, social events, and training sessions.
Specialised content types
Advanced content types for specific industries and use cases, available through specialized modules:
Testimonials
For customer feedback and testimonials with structured attribution and display options:
- Customer attribution with photos and titles
- Quote formatting and styling
- Industry and service categorization
- Approval workflow for quality control
- Carousel and grid display options
Ideal for customer reviews, product reviews and service testimonials.
Job vacancies
Structured job postings with application management and automated expiry handling:
- Structured job information (salary, location, type)
- Application deadline management
- Remote/hybrid/on-site classification
- Automated expiry and removal
- Integration with application forms
- Department and category filtering
- SEO-optimized job posting format
Ideal for an organisation's HR department, career pages and job boards.
Case studies
Detailed project examples with before & after scenarios:
- Challenge/solution/outcome structure
- Client attribution and logos
- Can be shown with maps and locations
Ideal for professionals, such as architects, designers, consultants, software developers and so on.
