WordPress Greek Community - Workshop @ TEI Thessaly - Custom Post Types and Taxonomies - Takis Bouyouris

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1. Custom Post Types
   and Taxonomies
   Takis Bouyouris
   Web Developer @ Nevma
   WordPress Greek Community
   Workshop @ TEI Thessaly
   Larissa – Sat. 11/07/2015
   

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2. Nice to meet you
   My name is Takis Bouyouris
   web developer @ Nevma
   

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3. My goal today
   Help you understand what
   custom post types and
   taxonomies are and
   motivate you to use them
   

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4. What is WordPress?
   

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6. WordPress
   A blog engine, a CMS,
   or an application platform?
   

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7. Well, it's all of the above!
   But how did this come to be?
   Some history...
   

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8. Oh, nooo, not history!
   

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9. WordPress v.1 - 2004
   

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10. WordPress v.2 – 2005/6
    

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11. WordPress v.2.5 - 2008
    

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12. WordPress v.3.0 - 2010
    

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13. WordPress v.4.0 - 2014
    

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14. WordPress evolution
    not just design-wise
    

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15. WordPress has evolved
    into a full featured CMS
    and an application platform
    

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16. Since v.3 WordPress supports
    Custom post types
    Custom taxonomies
    

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17. Custom post types are like
    posts and pages
    Custom taxonomies are like
    categories and tags
    

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18. So, we 've got posts, pages,
    categories and tags and
    ...
    more posts,
    more pages,
    more categories
    and more tags?
    

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19. That all?
    

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20. No!
    What you have is an extensible
    data structure functionality.
    

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21. Extensible data structures!
    

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22. Extensible data structures
    that are simple and accessible!
    

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23. Custom post types
    Create a new area of special pages
    and name it what you like/need
    

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24. Custom taxonomies
    Create a new ways to categorise
    the post types you manage
    

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25. Example 1
    a video club
    Custom post type => movie
    Custom taxonomies =>
    category, studio, country
    

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26. Example 2
    a house broker
    Custom post type => house
    Custom taxonomies =>
    house type, area, usage
    

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27. Example 3
    corporate website common patterns
    Pages => corporate info
    Posts => news/blog
    

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28. Example 3 (cont'd)
    Custom post type => projects
    Custom taxonomies =>
    project category, project area
    

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29. Example 3 (cont'd)
    Pages =>
    Home page
    Profile
    Products
    Contact
    etc
    

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30. Example 3 (cont'd)
    Posts (news) =>
    Our new website online
    Summer sales this week
    Latest products
    Fiscal report 2015
    etc
    

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31. Example 3 (cont'd)
    Custom Post Type Projects =>
    Sportswear eshop
    Insurance company website
    Corporate website
    etc
    

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32. Example 3 (cont'd)
    Custom Taxonomies
    Project category =>
    website, eshop, design, etc
    Project area =>
    Athens, Larissa, Veroia, etc
    

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33. Let's make a
    custom post type
    from scratch
    

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34. OMG, he's gonna show code now!
    

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36. OK, that was code!
    

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38. The important bits
    name
    taxonomies
    hierarchical
    capability
    

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39. Let's make a
    custom taxonomy
    from scratch
    

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40. OMG somebody stop him!
    

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42. Yeap, that was code again!
    

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44. The important bits
    name
    post_types
    hierarchical
    

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45. Relax!
    There are tools to generate
    this code
    "Generate WP"
    http://generatewp.com
    

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47. There are plugins with a UI
    "GD Custom Post Types and
    Taxonomies Tools"
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-taxonomies-tools/
    

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49. So, not so bad after all...
    

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50. Custom post types and taxonomies
    are great, but we also need
    the templates to show them
    Meet the "template hierarchy"
    https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/
    

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51. "Template hierarchy"
    The WordPress way to define which
    PHP template will be chosen to
    handle each user request.
    Necessary for theming.
    

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52. Template hierarchy
    

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53. Let's zoom in a bit
    

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54. Theme PHP files
    

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55. Check it out interactively with
    http://wphierarchy.com/
    

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56. To sum up
    Custom post types are extensible
    data structures (the WordPress way)
    and custom taxonomies are new ways
    to categorise them
    

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58. WordPress Greek Community
    Facebook
    https://facebook.com/groups/WordPressGreekCommunity/
    Twitter
    https://twitter.com/wordpressgrcomm/
    Website
    http://www.wpgc.gr/
    http://www.wpgreece.org/
    

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59. Thank you for listening!
    

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60. Questions?
    

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61. Takis Bouyouris, Nevma
    takis@nevma.gr
    https://www.facebook.com/takis.bouyouris
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/takisbouyouris
    Sorry and thank you SNL :-)
    

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