Diving into Wordpress Custom Post Types

Hazlitt Eastman

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Wordpress theme and plugin development, Codeigniter, PHP / MySQL / Javascript / HTML / CSS

- What are Custom Post Types?

- Web site example

- Useful plugins

- Code

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What are we going to look at?

What are Custom Post Types?Provide a method by which we can structure different types of website content. (not just Posts and Pages)

Examples:

- Adverts- DVDs- Books- Testimonials- Tour dates

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Website Front End Example

www.offthekerb.co.uk

Contains 11 Custom Post Types

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Useful Plugins- Can be created in functions.php using the

register_post_type() Wordpress function

- Custom Post Type UI

- Verve Metabox

- More Fields

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Website Back End Example

www.offthekerb.co.uk

- As an Editor

- As an Administrator

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Code example using query_posts()query_posts( 'posts_per_page=-1&post_type=dvds');

if(have_posts()) :while(have_posts()) : the_post(); //loop opened

$image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image_2', true);$link = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'link_2', true);$title = get_the_title();

echo "<li>\n";echo "<a href=\"http://" . $link . "\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"" .

$image . "\" alt=\"" . $title. "\" /></a>\n";echo "</li>\n";

endwhile; //loop closedendif; //have_posts closed

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- What are Custom Post Types?

- Web site example

- Useful plugins

- Code

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What have we looked at?

Diving into Wordpress Custom Post Types

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