
By now you should be aware that WordPress 3.0 comes shipped with Custom Post Types. It’s a feature that may not be easy to grasp at first, but it holds almost infinite power over what you can do with WordPress. Custom Post Types are not set in stone as to what they exactly are. It’s more important you realize that they can represent any type of content you want. WordPress already ships with several post types such as posts, pages, attachments and even revisions, so it’s basically up to your imagination what you can do with it.
There are three sources about Custom Post Types I think you all should read to get a better grasp of what it can do for you. I’ve heard people say that the new WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Types feature is really not all that important, but I’d like to show them different by…
738 readersMake your WordPress 3.0 site even more awesome. With East Post Types Plugin, you can create WordPress custom post types on the fly with an easy to use interface. Then manage custom fields and categories for your post types. Create custom fields without having to create keynames and values. Output custom types simply by using the
1297 readersWhen is something both a taxonomy term and post of a specific post type? How do we handle that scenario in WordPress?
1647 readersStill confused about these “custom post types”? We already have categories for Posts and we can use various techniques like post_class to target certain posts with CSS and do different styling. We can also use conditionals to treat posts in different categories completely differently. Why is this going to help? The big difference is that it
602 readersBrad asks: What’s the optimal way to store large amounts of meta data for a taxonomy without creating a custom table in WordPress? WordPress has meta tables for the site (options table), posts, comments and users. It lacks a table for meta data about taxonomies (categories, tags, custom taxonomies). Solutions for this aren’t going to
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1948 readersWordPress 3.0 will allow you to create custom post types, so what about being able to list those custom types on your blog homepage? This very useful piece of code will show you how you can do it.Looking for WordPress hosting? Try WP Web Host. Prices starts at $5/month and you can try it for
2387 readersWordPress 3.0 is coming soon and one of the biggest new features is the ability to add custom post types. Making these custom post types is pretty easy, here is a simple but complete example of creating a link type custom post.
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595 readersInto Plugins? You Will Love This. three persons, carefully handpicked among all the three most important people in WordPress, are writing a book, I mean, THE book, on WordPress Plugin Development. These three fine chaps are Brad Williams, Justin Tadlock and Ozh.
2411 readersMake Your Theme WordPress 3.0 Compatible A few tips to make your WordPress theme compatible with 3.0 Custom post types in WordPress Justin tadlock has put together a great guide explaining in details the new custom post types introduced with WordPress 3.0
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