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.

What Will You Learn?

In this lab, you will learn about WordPress post types including what they are, where they are stored in the database, hierarchy, and post type features.

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.

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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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.

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Check out the series page for more labs: WordPress Built-in and Custom Post Types