Explains wordpress custom posts types and how University of Central Florida's (UCF) Marketing web team creates custom post types.

1. Creating Custom Post
Types
UCF Marketing
Brandon Groves
webcom@ucf.edu
http://www.slideshare.net/DFieldFL/wordpress-create-custom-post-types

2. Outline
 UCF Marketing background
 What are custom post types (CPTs)
 How to create a CPTs
 How to display CPTs
 How we (SMCA) create CPTs
 Conclusion
 Questions/Comments

3. UCF Marketing background
Web Development Team
 Roger Wolf
 Jo Greybill
 Brandon Groves
Been using WordPress for 5 Years
Develop ~12 sites a year
Sites we developed using WordPress
 http://www.ucf.edu
 http://today.ucf.edu
 http://pegasus.ucf.edu
 http://hr.ucf.edu
 http://hospitality.ucf.edu

4. What are custom post
types (CPTs)
Most content uses post types [1]
 Posts
 Pages
 Navigation Menu
 Attachment
 Revision
CPT
[1] http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types#Custom_Post_Types

5. A way of organizing content
 Announcements
 People
 Documents
Add custom data
 Meta data
 Featured image
 Taxonomies
Remove fields
 Title
 Content
Meta data

6.  When creating CPTs you
have to also create a way of
displaying them
 CPTs are NOT displayed
anywhere by default
(except via single.php)

7. Has anyone used custom post types?
Other use-cases
 http://www.bard.edu/ccs/
 http://www.cec.fiu.edu/academics/bachelor/
 http://www.nicholls.edu/admission/
 http://pegasus.ucf.edu/

8. How to create CPTs
Selling ACME products
 List all product that are sold
 Individual product page with descriptions
Resources
 http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types
 http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Refere
nce/register_post_type
 http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Actio
n_Reference

9. Reserved Post Types [2]
 post
 page
 attachment
 revision
 nav_menu_item
Register CPT [2]
 Post type ID (required)
 Arguments – defining characteristics of the CPT
[2] http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type#Reserved_Post_Types

10. Hook function into the workflow
 Functions.php file is auto loaded [3]
 Convenience method add_action [4] [5]
 When to execute our code
 What code to execute
 Priority compared to other added actions
 Arguments
[3] http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Functions_File
[4] http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_action
[5] http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference

11. Code
 {theme}/functions.php

12. CPT displays on left menu
 Displays posts
 Add new post
A CPT by default looks the
same as Post
 Title
 Content/Body

13. How to display CPTs
Create products
 Anvil
 Giant Rubber Band

14. Where are our products?

15. Template structure [6]
 A single page to display products
 Pages are automatically put into the menu
 page-{slug}.php filename
 Content title is used for the slug
[6] http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

16. Creating our own display page

17. Empty page
 Defaults to page.php

18. Create template
 using the page slug file naming convention
(page-products.php)
 Querie our CPT of amce_products (The Loop) [7]
[7] http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
The Loop

19. Products page

20. View a product
 Defaults to single.php [6]
[6] http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

21. Create a custom display
 Displaying single CTP (single-{post-type-id}.php) [6]
[6] http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

22. Displaying single CTP (single-acme_product.php)

23. How we (SMCA) create CPTs
Resources
 https://github.com/UCF/Wordpress-Generic-Theme
Code
 custom-post-types.php (Base CPT Class)

24. Defining a new CPT (Document)
 Inherit CustomePostType class
 Modify variables if needed

25. Defining a new CPT
 Add custom functionality

26. Enabling CPT (registering)
 Add CPT class name to the Config’s custom_post_types
array (functions/config.php)

27. How we (SMCA) create CPTs

28. Conclusion
WordPress is more than a blogging tool
CPTs help group like content
CPTs are NOT displayed by default
 Manually link to it
 Create a display page listing CPTs (page templates)
 Create unique single post display (post templates)

29. Questions?
http://www.slideshare.net/DFieldFL/wordpress-create-custom-post-types
Contact: webcom@ucf.edu