Custom post types in WordPress allow users to create custom content types beyond standard posts and pages. They have been available since 2005 and can be used to store different types of data like employees, products, or movies. Plugins like Custom Post Type UI make it easy to register and manage custom post types. Custom post types can be hierarchical like pages and offer more flexibility than standard posts and pages for representing different kinds of content.

1. Custom Post
Types
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2. What they
are not.

3. Examples
• Employees
• Products
• Locations
• Movies
• Anything that is a “thing” that
isn’t a “post.”

4. WP Uses CPT
• Posts
• Pages
• Revisions
• Attachments
• Menu Items (new for
WordPress 3.0)

5. Custom Post
Types have
been available
since 2005

9. Plugin: Custom Post Type UI

18. Next: build the
[employee] shortcode

25. http://gist.github.com/570774

26. You can use
custom post types
as a data store

27. Custom post types
can be hierarchical,
like pages

28. Custom post types
aren’t done yet

29. More Resources
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Post_Types
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/
register_post_type
• http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-
post-types-in-wordpress

30. Thanks!
@markjaquith
coveredwebservices.com