Custom Post Types extend the WordPress back-end to support additional, non-Post content.
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Shouldn't this be easy?! Custom post type/custom taxonomy permalink
So this is driving me absolutely insane. I've spend days trying to fix this and I can't work out why this is so difficult as surely this is a very common permalink structure!
I looked through ...
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Redeclare/Change Slug of a Plugin's Custom Post Type
Is it possible to redeclare/change the slug of a plugin's existing custom post type (without simply editing the plugin)?
That is, if Plugin X creates a custom post type with the slug /uncookedtoast/, ...
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How to disable generation of default image sizes for some custom post types?
I used custom post type, where 'thumbnail', 'medium' and 'large' sized not required. I need to disable this sizes and create function or plugin, where i can set, which image size is required for each ...
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Integrating a custom post type into a page hierarchy
I'm creating a theme with a custom post type for team members, I've also got the following page structure:
about <-- this is a page
about/team-members <-- this is a page, lists all the team ...
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The Great Plugin Nomenclature Contest of 2011
It's been a while since I've done a bounty challenge, so here's another. Same basic rules: 1 answer per person, most creative/useful/helpful/entertaining answer wins. This time around, the award will ...
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Multiple Custom Metabox Help
I have been trying to get this worked out for over a year and have tried numerous ways and have not been able to get it to work. I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me with this. Here's ...
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Submit post and upload image from front-end
I am trying to do something similar to the above question. I am trying to make users post and upload images from front-end. I have already done the post form and its working.
I just followed and ...
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How can I convert Posts into Custom type posts?
I have a Wordpress site that I just updated to 3.1. I want to make use of custom post types now, my question is how can I assign (transfer?) a post to a newly created custom post type ?
For example, ...
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How to enqueue scripts on custom post add/edit pages?
I'm trying to enqueue a JS script only when someone is adding or editing a custom post type I created called "recipes". Currently the script works ok when I do this:
if (is_admin()){
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Get terms by taxonomy AND post_type
I have 2 custom post types 'bookmarks' and 'snippets' and a shared taxonomy 'tag'. I can generate a list of all terms in the taxonomy with get_terms(), but I can't figure out how to limit the list to ...
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List Categories for Custom Post Types - WordPress
I'm using custom poshttp://wordpress.stackexchange.com/badges/66/outspoken?userid=736t types in WordPress 3.0 (now 3.0.1) to setup a custom directory system, but can't seem to find how to list out the ...
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How do you use a CPT as the default home page?
I have a client who's site will be making heavy use of custom post types to configure their site. But I'm between a rock and a hard place for their requested home page.
In reality, the home page ...
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Making Custom Fields Standard in the Admin UI
I've added a few different custom_post_types to my Wordpress 3 installation. They are all a bit different from eachother, and should store unique information in custom_fields. But while one may store ...
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Marking future dated post as published
Use case:
I have a post type that relates to a music show. The 'show time' is grabbed through the post publish date which is set to some time in the future. I've found a function that takes future ...
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Building a Digg clone using WordPress?
I am thinking of building a site similar to Digg.com (the old version). I think the best way in my case is to make a custom post type for the links and then use a a plugin such as TDO Mini Forms or ...
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Custom Post Types, or completely custom?
I'm currently in the process of redeveloping my website. I've decided to use WordPress as its CMS, rather than coding everything from scratch.
It's a fishkeeping website, consisting of species ...
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Taxonomy, Terms, and Template Files
I have post type 'product' and hierarchical taxonomy 'types' attached to it. In this taxonomy, I have terms: 'dry-clean', 'washer', etc. With several sub terms on each terms.
In my situation, I need ...
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Placing a custom post type menu above the Posts menu using menu_position?
I just figured out the menu_position parameter it seems like you can place the menu of your custom post type almost everywhere. Except above the Posts menu!
How can I accomplish that?
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Row actions for custom post types?
I'm working on a plugin, which converts a site into a feedback sort of portal. I made a new object page, 'Feedbacks', which displays all the feedbacks is a tabular format, and I'm using ...
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Any way to make posts inherit properties/taxonomies through a single assigned taxonomy
I want to have a central "data" sheet that is regularly drawn upon for types of posts that are submitted. Lets say I had a movie review site, but also want to let people post other info, like Trivia ...
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Removing unnecessary numbers appended to postname in permalinks
I have, with help from Milo managed to tweak the permalinks for my custom post type so that they include the year and month of the event. e.g.
mysite.com/events/2013/january/fishing-trip
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Permalink Structure for Multiple Post Type Archives by Taxonomy
Recently I have been working on an advanced WordPress project, and I'm stuck with changing permalink structure for custom post types.
I have created 3 post types lets say: type1, type2, type3 and a ...
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WPML with WP_Query serving up all 3 languages
I've got something about this on the WPML support forums, but I figured I could ask here as well. Here's the important info: I'm running a WP Multisite setup with custom post types, custom fields, ...
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add_rewrite_endpoint() not working for custom post type archives [closed]
i'm working on somekind of wiki/encyclopedia system based on wordpress.
there are two custom post types. i'll show my configuration for one of them:
$labels = array(
'name' => _x('Objects', ...
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Mini-Site Strategy
I'm working on a project to allow a number of mini-sites within a WordPress multisite installation. Here's how it's supposed to function:
The client has a large number of individual locations, each ...
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Is there a way to change 'Posts' to be 'Portfolio' is the WP backend?
I'm developing a site for a client and am using the blog part of WordPress for her portfolio. I've also created a couple of page templates to list here workshops and current projects and used Custom ...
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Add Custom Fields to Custom Post Type RSS
I'd like to add custom fields in my custom post type to the RSS feed for that post type located at http://example.com/feed/?post_type=my_custom_post_type
I've seen info on doing this for the regular ...
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Adding Custom Post Type Counts to the Dashboard
The dashboard conveniently tells me how many posts, pages, and comments I have. I would like it to tell me how many articles, videos and cartoons I have too (three custom post types registered with my ...
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Change “Enter Title Here” help text on a custom post type
I have a custom post type created for a directory that will end up being sorted alphabetically. I will be sorting the posts in alphabetical order by title, so I want to make sure that the Title is ...
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Add extra parameters after permalink?
How can I add extra parameters after a permalink, specifically if I'm using a custom post type?
For example, let's say http://mysite/album/record-name was the permalink. How can I make ...
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Creating a default Custom Post Template that a Theme can override
I'm in the midst of building a Wordpress Plugin that adds a custom post type, for which I'd like to include a default template to display. Essentially, this is an event management plugin, and the ...
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Use a plugin to handle custom post types?
I've seen some tutorials showing how to create custom post types - the process seems straightforward enough. The issue I have with this is that the custom type information is part of the theme, and ...
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Custom Post Types and template_redirect
I have two custom post types (e.g. post_type_1 and post_type_2) that I would like to redirect to independent templates (single-post_type_1.php and single-post_type_2.php) to handle their display. I ...
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Allow member to have access to custom post type only. Permission to only edit their own posts
OK I'm looking for the best way to attack this.
I'm very comfortable with PHP and making custom post types with custom meta fields in WordPress.
Here is what I'm looking at doing:
User registers ...
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Defining capabilities for custom post type
On creation of a custom post type I'm trying to define capabilities but it's not working. What's wrong with this code?
$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'public' => true,
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Custom Post Type Templates from Plugin Folder?
I'd like to offer my custom post type as a Plugin, so that people can use it without touching their theme folder. But custom post type templates -- such as single-movies.php -- reside in the theme ...
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Attaching media to custom posts without editor
I'm creating a custom post type, "gallery", in which the admin should be able to upload images (these images would be attached to the post).
The thing is that the "editor" meta box is disabled for ...
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Loop through custom taxonomies and display posts
While I've been able to get this working for normal WP categories I've been unable to get it working for custom taxonomies.
I'd like to loop through each custom taxonomy (categories in my case) and ...
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Can the Next/Prev Post links be ordered by menu order or by a meta key?
I have a series of posts that are ordered by a meta_key value. They could also be arranged by menu order, if necessary.
The next/prev post links (generated by next_post_link, previous_post_link, or ...
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How to Remove Certain Screen Options and Meta Boxes from add/edit post type?
Now, when you add or edit a particular post within your desired post type, there are more screen options as well. Although, these Screen Options are showing/hiding meta boxes. I would like to be able ...
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Efficient Taxonomy Intersection
I have many uses for this but I want to know the most performant way of doing what is going to be an expensive operation.
As an example I will use a shop.
Given:
A product brand taxonomy
A product ...
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Custom Post Type Archives by Year & Month?
How do you display the archives of a Custom Post Type by Year & Month?
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custom post type or taxonomy
I'm working on a real-estate site where I need to create a profile for each agent, the initial view when you click on view agents would be to list them alphabetically, ideally from a dropdown you ...
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Quick edit screen customization
Possible Duplicate: How to show custom meta box on "Quick Edit" screen?
I'm trying to edit the quick edit screen on my custom post type "visitor" so that I can add some options for my end-users. My ...
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Calling a Function After New Post Creation for a WordPress Custom Post Type?
Assume I created a new post type 'product'. Is there a way to perform a function (user created) when this new 'product' post has been created?
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Adding Categories to a WordPress Custom Post Type?
Is it possible to add categories to a Custom Post Type in WordPress?
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Custom Post Type - Taxonomy Dropdown Menu?
I have created a custom post type and added various meta boxes/fields to this custom post type. All is working excellent except for one element...
Instead of utilizing the default interface for ...
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visually sort ordering “custom post types” for end users
Now with those custom post types and other ?bits of content? that
don?t necessarily need to be organized by chronologically by date, for
example: the client has a 100 T-Shirts as custom post type ...
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Custom Post Type Template - Archive
I have a custom post type, called 'job', and I have the following templates in my theme:
single-job.php (works fine, displays single job as expected)
archives-job.php (is not recognized?)
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How to Make a Separate RSS Feed for Each Custom Post Type
How can I make a separate RSS feed for each custom post type?
I had searched the net for it and found suggestions to do something like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/feed/?post_type=book
I tried ...
