Custom Post Types and Taxonomies

An introduction into WordPress custom post types and taxonomies. What they are as well as why and how to use them.

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1. Custom POST TYPES
2. Custom POST TYPES and taxonomies!
3. Content
4. Pages Posts
5. Pages Posts Attachment Revision Nav Menu Item
6. product acf-field-group tribe_events
7. Why?
8. Easier Content Management
9. How?
10. register_post_type() codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/ register_post_type
11. function wpmark_register_cpts() { register_post_type( $args ); } add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpmark_register_cpts’ );
12. Plugin or Theme
13. Plugin or Theme or mu-plugins
14. Grouping Content
16. Taxonomies
17. category post_tag
18. category post_tag link_category post_format
19. Custom Taxonomies
20. How?
21. register_taxonomy() codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/ register_taxonomy
22. function wpmark_register_tax () { register_taxonomy( $taxonomy, $object_type, $args ); } add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpmark_register_tax’ );
23. Templates
24. archive-{post_type}.php single-{post_type}.php taxonomy-{taxonomy}-{term}.php taxonomy-{taxonomy}.php taxonomy.php
25. is_post_type_hierarchical( $post_type) is_post_type_archive( $post_type ) is_singular( $post_type ) is_tax( $taxonomy ) is_taxonomy_hierarchical( $taxonomy ) taxonomy_exists( $taxonomy ) Conditional Functions
26. Permalinks
27. Prefix wpmark_post_type
28. Mark Wilkinson Freelance WordPress Developer @wpmark markwilkinson.me Questions?