1. Creatively Creating Custom
Post Types
NikhilVimal
#WordUpMPLS

2. Hi, I’m Nikhil
• I develop with WordPress
• I can be found on Twitter @TechVoltz
• This my first talk ever

3. Custom Post Types?
They Rock (Seriously)

4. But what are they?
•Instead of using default posts and categories in
WordPress, use Custom Post Types
•You can add a lot of cool things that are not in a
Default WordPress install
•Added in WordPress 3.0

5. Why Do You need them?
Organization

6. Portfolio
Post Type could be paintings

7. Online Store
Post Type could be Products

8. Your only limitation is
Your imagination

9. “WordPress can hold and display many different
types of content.”
-WordPress Codex

10. But how do we add
Custom Post Types?
With a plugin of course

11. Create a file called myposttype.php
<?php
/**
* Plugin Name: Your Custom Post Type
* Plugin URI: http://yourpluginswebsite.com
* Description: A brief description of your Plugin.
* Version: The Plugin's Version Number, e.g.: 1.0
* Author: Your Name
* Author URI: http://yourwebsite.com
* License: A "Slug" license name e.g. GPL2
*/

12. add_action('init', 'wordup_sessions');
function wordup_sessions() {
$wordup_args = array(
'public' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'query_var' => 'wordup',
'menu_position' => 5,
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'thumbnail', 'excerpt', 'comments' ),
'labels' => array(
'name' => 'WordUp Sessions',
'singular' => 'WordUp Session',
'add_new' => 'Add Session',
'add_new_item' => 'Add Session',
'edit_item' => 'Edit Session',
'new_item' => 'New Session',
'view_item' => 'View Session',
'search_items' => 'Search WordUp',
'not_found' => 'No sessions found',
'not_found_in_trash' => 'No Sessions found in the Trash',
),
);
register_post_type('WordUp', $wordup_args );
}

13. Lets examine all the
code!!

14. add_action('init', 'wordup_sessions');

15. function wordup_sessions() {
$wordup_args = array(
'public' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'query_var' => 'wordup',
'menu_position' => 5,
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'thumbnail',
'excerpt', 'comments' ),

16. 'labels' => array(
'name' => 'WordUp Sessions',
'singular' => 'WordUp Session',
'add_new' => 'Add Session',
'add_new_item' => 'Add Session',
'edit_item' => 'Edit Session',
'new_item' => 'New Session',
'view_item' => 'View Session',
'search_items' => 'Search Sessions',
'not_found' => 'No sessions found',
'not_found_in_trash' => 'No Sessions found in the Trash',
),
);

17. register_post_type('WordUp', $wordup_args );
}

18. Styling your CPT Page
With single-$posttype.php

19. Having an Archive Page for
your CPT
With archive-$posttype.php

23. Taxonomies
More Organization

24. “Basically, a taxonomy is a way to group things
together”
-WordPress Codex

25. Taxonomies
Categories and Tags

26. Portfolio
Taxonomy is oil painting

27. After our Custom Post
type function….

28. add_action('init', 'wordup_tracks');

29. function wordup_tracks(){
$track_args = array(
'hierarchical' => true,
'query_var' => ‘wordup_tracks',
'show_tagcloud' => true,

30. 'labels' => array(
'name' => 'Tracks',
'edit_item' => 'Edit Track',
'update_item' => 'Update Track',
'add_new_item' => 'Add New Track',
'new_item_name' => 'New Track',
'all_items' => 'All Tracks',
'search_items' => 'Search Tracks',
'popular_items' => 'Popular Tracks',
'add_or_remove_items' => 'Add or remove Tracks',
'choose_from_most_used' => 'Choose from most used Tracks',
),
);

31. register_taxonomy(‘wordup_tracks',
array('wordup'), $dev_args);
}
The array(‘wordup’) is our custom post type

33. You can add more
Like Custom Fields

34. Questions?

35. Resources
• http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-
wordpress
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies
• http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/11/08/complete-guide-
custom-post-types/

36. Thank You!
Nikhil Vimal
@TechVoltz