Proposed Idea

Create a Joomla! extension that allows users to create, manage and display different content types.

Introduction

Joomla! has a content system that's mainly built for news-style items. And it doesn't allow one to use custom fields to create different content types.

Content types make it very easy for site administrator to create new functionality and it's also a popular feature request. [1] For example, they can be used to create a gallery with some fields for images or to list files for downloading with a field for download link.

My goal is to allow site developers to add data elements for any purpose they need to the content and make it easy to display them on the front end.

In this year's Summer of Code I'd like to implement this functionality for Joomla!