This document discusses customizing WordPress through custom post types and fields. It explains that custom post types and fields allow presenting different types of data in various formats. It provides instructions on planning, building, and testing custom post types and fields, including best practices and examples. The document concludes by having students add custom post types and fields to their own sites and providing additional resources.

2. WordPress Customization
Goal: Gain a basic understanding of some common functions used by Clique from the
WordPress PHP API, modifying the administrator user-interface, and present various data
formats.
Outcomes:
1. An understanding of what Post Types and Custom Fields are.
2. Be able to identify when to use Custom Post Types and Custom Fields.
3. Able to create and modify Custom Post Types and Custom Fields.

3. Custom Post Types
Outcomes:
1. Create two Custom Post Types using the WordPress API
2. Modify an existing Custom Post Type
3. Be able query and display post information within page templates
4. Acknowledge when to use Custom Post Types in different situations

4. Custom Fields
Outcomes:
1. Create custom fields for different post types
2. Gain an understanding of how to save, update, and delete custom post data
3. Acknowledge when to use Custom Fields in different situations

5. Agenda
1. Why we use various post types.
2. How do I use this in my work, best practices
3. Client example, adding post type to Kendall College site.
4. Adding post type to your forked site

6. Understanding Why
Why is it important to know how to create Custom Post Types and Fields - especially
programmatically?
1. Present similar data in different ways
2. Present different data in similar ways
3. “Administrative Organization” - a well-organized user and programming interface.

7. Why - Second City
● Large and complex website
● Must present varying data types in varying
formats
● Each “post” has multiple, varying pieces of
metadata attached to it
● Data types required their own unique
categorization system

8. Why - Hampel & Co.
● Content isn’t updated regularly
● Data has similar format, but needed to be
presented in different ways
● Each “post” has a wide range of varying
metadata in different formats

9. Planning
• Create Post Types
– Identify “groups” of data and information
• What content blocks are similar?
• What content blocks are different?
• Create Custom Fields
– Identify data/information that should be attached to post as metadata
Best Practices/Example

11. Building
• Required hooks
– add_action
• init
• save_post
• Create Post Types
– register_post_type
• Create Custom Fields
– add_meta_box
Best Practices/Example

14. Testing
• Ensure post appears in back-end of WordPress
• Ensure data is being saved appropriately
• Loop through custom posts and fields on a page
Best Practices/Example

15. You do
● Programmatically add 3 custom post types
to your own personal sites
● Programmatically add 3 custom fields to
your own personal sites

16. Resources
Post Type
● https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types
● http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-custom-post-types-in-wordpress/
Fields
● https://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields
● http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/wordpress-custom-fields-101-tips-tricks-and-hacks/
● https://generatewp.com/