STAY CALMCustom Post Types Smell Your Fear

WHO AM I?“Christine the designer, coder, and WordPress Specialist” doesn’t sound as good.

Yes! This presentation is available online at www.christinethedesigner.com.

You can also email me questions at hello@christinethedesigner.com.

WHAT IS A POST?

Wait a second…

WHAT IS A POST?

types of posts

posts

post page attachment

Your content!

TECHNICALLY…

CONCEPTUALLY…

Probably more useful.

TYPES OF POSTS

TYPES OF POSTS

TYPES OF CONTENT(blog) posts pages

• chronological

• excerpts• shows up in blog & feed

• orderable

• have parents• shows up in menus

WHAT IS A TAXONOMY?

A labeling system that helps you make sense of all your chunks of content.

READY TAXONOMIEScategorieshave parents

tagsdon’t

why can’t we apply either of them to pages?

registrationcategory

new category forms are created in post screens

posts

TIME TO GET BLOGGING!

FASHION!

TRAINING UPDATES

TRAINING UPDATES

AFFLIATE MARKETING

Should go to an external urlneeds to mention seller

AFFILIATE MARKETING

AFFILIATE MARKETING

WHAT’S WRONG?I’m trying to make the built in post types and taxonomies work in ways they weren’t meant to.

Every time I make a change, I open up more things that need changing.My blog will grow harder and harder to maintain.

I CAN MAKE MY OWN POST TYPES???Yes, I can and you can! And our own taxonomies too! With custom post types, everything can be just right for your blog.

All you have to do is…

OR USE PLUGINSCustom Post Type UI: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/

Easy Post Types: http://www.wpeasyposttypes.com/

Ultimate Post Type Manager: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-post-type-manager/

MP-Former Custom Post Type Manager: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mp-former/

CUSTOM POST OPTIONS

CUSTOM POST OPTIONS

PUBLICLY QUERYABLE

Do you want a single post view of your custom posts?

What about an archive for them?

HIERARCHICALShould it have parents?

SUPPORTSDo you want a title? Do you want people to comment on your custom posts?

SHOW UI, IN MENU

WHERE’D IT GO?

POST FORMATS

POST FORMATS

CUSTOM TAXNOMIES

HIERARCHICALTrue: False:

DISPLAYING CUSTOM POSTSPlugins:Advanced Recent Posts Widget: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-recent-posts-widget/

Menus:

Modifying the loop:

EXAMPLES

THANK YOU!Ampersand Duck on Flickr Elizabeth/

Table4Five on Flickr

Skooksieon flickr

Mek22on Flickr

Marjan Krebeljon Flickr