Custom Post Type Basics

WordPress gives you the means to add new post types. In this hands-on lab, you will explore configuring and registering a new custom post type. You are actively building a team biography plugin, where team members are displayed on a business-centric website.

You are going to be amazed at how easy it is to configure and register your own custom post types. When your project needs a portfolio, event, FAQ, glossary, team bios, or whatever special content classification, you will know the ins and outs of how to add these to your project.

What You Will Learn

In this lab you will learn:

• What a “Custom” post type is
• How easy it is to register a new one with a couple lines of code
• How and Why to configure the labels to make the back-end interface specific for this new post type
• Configuring support features including how to include features that you may not know about at build time
• The why and how of flushing the rewrite rules
• Best practices for flushing the rewrite rules
• A basic overview of the configurable arguments

Prerequisites

In order to do this lab, you will need your local sandbox site spun up and ready to go. See this Help Center article to get your sandbox ready.

We highly recommend that you complete this lab first:

8 Episodes
00:49:58 Runtime

WordPress Built-in Post Type Basics

Out-of-the-box, WordPress gives you built-in post types. In this hands-on lab, you will interact and change the built-in post types including the configured features. This is an introduction to post types, which will prepare you for building custom post types.

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You may want to read this article either before or after you take this lab:

Developer's Guide to Differentiating WordPress Content - Post Types

As developers, it can be confusing to understand the intent and role of the mechanisms in WordPress to differentiate content. What are post types, taxonomies and terms, and custom fields? Why do they exist? When do you use the built-in ones? When do you build a custom one? We need a definitive guide that provides structure and best practices for differentiating content. We need a Developer's Guide. In this first part of the series, we'll discuss the why, what, and when of the WordPress post type from both a technical and practical perspectives.

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Add a FAQ Feature to the Collapsible Content Plugin – Part 2

In this hands-on lab, you and I will walk through the entire process of adding a new feature to an existing WordPress plugin. You'll start with the Collapsible Content plugin and then add a FAQ feature to it. This feature will require you to plan, think, and execute building a custom post type, custom taxonomy, advanced SQL queries, custom archive, and shortcode.

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