Custom post types - WordPress

Custom Post Types What, why and how

Keith Devon• Freelance web designer and WordPress developer• Specialise in building custom themes and plugins• Founder of WordPress London

What we’ll cover• What are Custom Post Types• When to use them• How to use them• Taking things further• Resources• Questions

What are they?Think content not posts. I.e. Custom Content Types

What are they? Examples:•Movies•Staff•Podcasts•Books•Products•Testimonials, etc, etc.

When to use them? An example: “I want to create a website for my holiday home rentals company. I have a portfolio of 20 properties that I want to be able to manage and update. Each property has the following information:”• Name• Price per week• Number of rooms• Short intro• Full property description• An image

Enter, custom post types• Cleaner UIs• Easier theme customisation• Easier to maintain and update your code

Registering your CPTYou can do this using plugins, but...

Registering your CPT

Template ﬁles• single-$posttype.php• archive-$posttype.php• Replace $posttype with the variable name of your CPT.• E.g. single-kdev_properties.php

Congratulations!You’ve created a custom post type.Now for even more awesomeness...

Custom meta boxes

Custom meta boxes• Show the code

• Show the meta box image

Custom Taxonomies Hierarchical Not hierarchical(like categories) (like tags)

Resourceshttp://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Typeshttp://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_typePluginshttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/Postshttp://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpresshttp://devpress.com/blog/conditional-checks-for-custom-post-types/http://css-tricks.com/forums/discussion/8538/wordpress-3.0-custom-post-types-and-meta-boxes/Easy meta boxes with WPAlchemyhttp://www.farinspace.com/wpalchemy-metabox/

Now you know:• What a custom post type is• When to use them• That it’s simple to implement• It makes your life easier!

Thanks for listening Any questions? @keithdevon keith@keithdevon.com www.keithdevon.com

Follow ups• Slides will be posted on meetup.com• Video (hopefully) will be posted• @wpldn #wpldn

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