1. Custom Post Types
What, why and how

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

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

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

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

6. 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

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

8. Registering your CPT
You can do this using plugins, but...

9. Registering your CPT

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

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

15. Custom meta boxes

16. Custom meta boxes
• Show the code

17. • Show the meta box image

18. • Show the meta box image

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

23. Resources
http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type
Plugins
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/
Posts
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress
http://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 WPAlchemy
http://www.farinspace.com/wpalchemy-metabox/

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

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

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