First Impressions of Custom Post Type

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Thursday, 11 February 2010

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One of the new very interesting things in WordPress 3.0 are individual post-types you can implement with little effort. Back then, you had to expand the database and write your own interface for it, now you just have to add a few lines of code – of course this is just the current state, which can be change until the final release.
After Justin had been playing with these types, we check out the possibilities of types for “Movies”.
Simple Solution

function post_type_movies() {
register_post_type( 'movies',
array( 'label' => __('Movies'), 'public' => true, 'show_ui' => true ) );
register_taxonomy_for_object_type('post_tag', 'movies');
}
add_action('init', 'post_type_movies');

More parameters for meta-boxes
Of course there are a number of parameters for this function and so the behavior and appearance of the corresponding edit page can be controlled quite easily, a small sample with additional meta boxes:

function post_type_movies() {
register_post_type(
'movies',
array('label' => __('Movies'),
'public'…

By: Frank
From: WP Engineer » WordPress News

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