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Custom Post Types
In the wild
Mario Peshev
me.peshev.net
@no_fear_inc

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Agenda
• WordPress
• Posts and Pages
• Custom Post Types
• In the wild
• Types
• Views

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About me
• WordPress Engineer at
• DevriX CTO
• Open Source trainer
and consultant

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70 000 000+ websites

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21% of all USA­registered domains now

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Posts and Pages

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Posts – chronological
and archives

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Pages – subpages
and templates

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But in the end...

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phpMyAdmin

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Post Types
• Post
• Page
• Attachment
• Revision
• Nav Menu

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But I need a new structure :

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Examples:

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Magazine Entries

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Products

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Real Estates

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Slides

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Courses

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Forms

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Air Conditioners

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What's the difference
• Unique styling for a post type
• Separate categorization
• List only post type entries
• Common API for all post types
• The magic Custom Fields

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CuperFields!

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Add extra values to a post

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Enable them first!

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All post types include...
• Title
• Content area
• Date
• Featured Image
• Revisions

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Custom Fields
• Specific information for every post
• Rating
• Phone number
• Everything beyond title, content, featured
image, date or taxonomies

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Wait, Taxonomies?

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Tags

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Categories

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And... Custom Taxonomies!

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Taxonomies
• Great for classification
• Drawback:
• Support only title
• Can't be extended (naturally)

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Post Types ­ simple

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Post Types ­ full

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Register Taxonomy

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The Loop
• The core iteration WordPress unit

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List all product titles
Note: always use WP_Query instead.

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List all products in a taxonomy term

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The Swiss knife of Post Types

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Field groups

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Types Range
• Types could define:
• Post type structure
• Taxonomies and relations
• Custom field groups per post type
• Extra custom fields
• Loop is to be done manually

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CPT toolkits
• Types
• Pods
• Advanced Custom Fields
• Custom Post Type UI
• More Fields

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Pro users: go to Views

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Views sample site

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View Templates

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Views Disclaimer
• Warning: Views is not free, it's $49 for
unlimited number of websites
• How come?
• Complete LOOP control with UI
• Create templates for post types and archives
• Submit CPTs from the front end
• Widgetized loops

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Questions?