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Update Blog Post types

Abubakar Siddiq Ango requested to merge abubakar-post-types into master

Why is this change being made?

This MR updates the Blog handbook page. The post type section of the page was updated to add a few more post types and rename others. For example, content-marketing was written Content marketing, which can be tricky to format when using filters in Google Analytics or Looker Studio. The blog team can ensure the right Post Types are in place before blog posts are published, especially where authors are unsure of which to use and their team do not have a dedicated post type.

Changing post types does not affect existing data collected by Google Analytics. If a team already has filters in place for a changed post type like Content marketing, they can use both the new and old versions in a blog post frontmatter, where changing is currently not possible and Google Analytics starts picking the new version.

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