Custom Post Types extend the WordPress back-end to support additional, non-Post content.
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Custom bulk_action
I would like to add a custom bulk action to a custom post type. I came across the filter bulk_actions-screenid, which according to its documentation, would do exactly as I wish. However, after about ...
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Hide “Add media”, html editor from tinymce
I have a custom post type which supports editor. (WordPress ver. 3.5)
I want to customize the editor for it.
Make it readonly
Hide "Add Media" button
Hide HTML editor
Remove status bar showing word ...
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Wordpress 3.3 custom post type with /%postname%/ permastruct?
There is earlier post with similar title, but it does not look in to the WordPress 3.3, and that is important as 3.3 advertises interestingly: "Use the postname permalink structure without a ...
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How do I append multiple taxonomies to the URL?
Multiple taxonomies in URL
How does one append multiple taxonomies to the URL having the following:
Post Type: products
Taxonomy: product_type
Taxonomy: product_brand
Adding new ...
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What should I use - Taxonomies, custom fields, Post Type?
I've setup a traveling/photography blog. I want to have different post types: Traveling, Hotel Reviews, etc. For the traveling post, I want to add unique data like: City, Weather (for the current time ...
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Setting up custom post type archives in WP3.1? Any luck?
I've just moved a site I'm developing to WP3.1 so that I can take advantage of and start testing some of the new features. I'm especially liking the has_archive parameter in registering custom post ...
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Custom post type yearly/ monthly archive permalinks
I have a custom post type "news" in my Wordpress site. I am using Advanced Custom Fields plugin to add meta data to each post.
I want to create an array of news items as an archive:
[2013]
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How to set a custom post type to have viewable future posts
I've setup a CPT to act the same ways as posts but used to post event details.
Thing is that some of the posts are in the future and such have a future date set on them. Problem is that normal users ...
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How to give a CPT (custom post type) a date based url
I have events that have an event-date custom field. I want to create a date based page to display all events for a given day, and my hope was to use the url to help with that.
I have a 7 day ...
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How to handle a hierarchy with custom post types
I have moved into WordPress for a few days and was quite impressed by all the available features, plugins and polished themes. I have spent quite some times reading documentation about themes and ...
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Why have my custom post type searches stopped working after changing URLs / updating WordPress?
IMPORTANT UPDATE: I've realised that my problems could also lie with the WordPress 3.3 update.
A while ago I posted a solution to my own question about searching Custom Post Types.
At that time, I ...
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Assign posts to taxonomy terms instead of the taxonomy terms to posts?
So I have a custom post type (people) with a related custom taxonomy (directory). Instead of editing a person and then choosing the related directory organizations I'd like to "edit" a directory org ...
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How to add custom post type archive page links to nav menu?
I cannot figure this out. There seems to be no checkbox or anything similar in function to add the newly created custom post type archive page into the menu.
Also the link must be active, if you are ...
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Will a post object's “post_name” always be equal to the “path” on non-hierarchal custom post types? (using get_page_by_path() function)
The Short:
When feeding the path into get_page_by_path() something like this:
$post_object = get_page_by_path( 'path_of_post', OBJECT, 'my_custom_post_type' )
... Assuming the custom post type is ...
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How can I rewrite URLs to pass taxonomy and post type values to the query?
So I have a site with about 6 custom post types.Three of these post types are attached to a single custom taxonomy.
I would like to be able to list_cats in the sidebar and spit out a url like ...
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Display custom post type and custom fields within a Bootstrap Carousel
I am using the "Types" wordpress plugin for the first time. I created a custom post type, as well as some custom fields.
How do I dynamically call all the custom posts into a Bootstrap carousel, ...
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Large Uploads in WordPress
I'm working with a church that uses WordPress to manage their website and podcast. So far, they have a 200-step process every week for publishing the podcast (I exaggerate, but it is a huge ...
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Load a script just to custom post type in admin
I have created a custom post type "portfolio" with something like this :
$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => ...
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Theme localization of “slugs” (custom post types, taxonomies)
in my theme I want to define a series of custom post types and custom taxonomies, each one having its own customized slug; the base language of my theme is english, therefore the slugs will be in ...
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clients list using wordpress
I am using wordpress for my new website and i have list of clients(name and their logos). I am confused how to make those editable using wordpress? Html as follows...
<ul>
<li><img ...
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Hide content box with Custom Post Type?
Ive created a custom post type and I want to hide the main textarea content in the publish/edit page.
Is it possible ?
Thanks!
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don't publish custom post type post if a meta data field isn't valid
I have a custom post type (CPT) called event. I have a meta box for the type with several fields. I would like to validate some fields before publishing an event. For example, if an event's date is ...
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5 blogs on one WordPress site
What is the best way to have multiple blogs on one site? I am not talking about Multisite.
What I want is one website with 5 blogs. All accessible from one menu and editable from one backend, I could ...
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Best way to create list of gigs for Wordpress theme?
I'm currently designing a musician's wordpress theme, and am looking to create a user-controlled dynamic gig list. It doesn't have to have a link to any event pages, just a simple "where, when, with ...
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How to call a custom post with get_posts() instead of query_posts()?
I currently use a query_posts to show theese custom posts but I'm pretty sure that I should uses get_posts() to write it correctly.
<?php query_posts( array( 'type-mario' => 'games', ...
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Custom Post Type Archives by Date and Taxonomy
Lets use the classic example of a custom post type called "movies", with its own taxonomy called "genre".
By registering the custom post type (with a "movie" slug), the permalinks are already set up ...
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Use register_post_type() to modify an existing post type
There are lots of situations where a theme or plugin registers a post type and you want to modify it. There is of course add_post_type_support() and remove_post_type_support(), but those don't give ...
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Adding a Custom Post Type into the menu screen
I need a way of adding custom post types to the "Appearance-->Menus" option in Wordpress. i have created a custom post type with:
register_post_type('produksjoner',$args);
All examples I find just ...
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Possible to turn off autosave for single custom post type
So I'm having an issue with my custom fields in my custom post type. For whatever reason the fields save and then clear somewhat randomly... I'm sure it's not random but I'm not sure what's triggering ...
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Getting the Intersection of Two Custom Taxonomy Terms for a Custom Post Type?
(Moderators note: Was originally titled "How to get_posts of a custom post type that is in two custom taxonomies?")
I have a custom post type that has two taxonomies which are separate, one called ...
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How to change default position of WP meta boxes?
Im wondering if there is a way to change the default position of Wordpresses meta boxes such as "featured image" for custom post types without having to drag them manually?
Example:
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Why won't my metabox data save?
I have a custom post with a lot of meta boxes. I recently tried to add some dynamic metaboxes, using this question: Create more Meta Boxes as needed
I managed to get the metaboxes to add nicely, the ...
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Using meta_query, how can i filter by a custom field and order by another one?
With the following code (in functions.php) my posts (of CPT event) are ordered by _end_date instead of _start_date. What's the proper solution to this as of WP 3.1.3? Of course I'd like to avoid using ...
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Deregister custom post types
Anyone know of a way to deregister custom post types ?
Is there an equivalent to register_post_type() ?
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Add .html (dot HTML) extension to custom post types
Is there any way to add the .html extension to custom post types without plugin ?
For posts I can use /%postname.html on the permalink settings
For pages I can use:
add_action('init', ...
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Front end registration/login & publish/update 1 custom post
I want to be able to allow a user to register/login via a front end form and be able to create 1 custom post which only they will be able to edit and update via a front end form.
This will be part of ...
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Custom Post Type URL Rewriting?
I setup a custom post type for my portfolio projects. The main URL for this is located at /projects/
Now I've also setup my blog posts permalink to /articles/*/ for the permalink structure. This ...
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Search multiple custom fields by using meta_query
I'm trying to create a search results listing for a custom post type and the problem I'm running in to is with the way the 'meta_query' parameter is stringing the passed values together. It appears ...
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Custom Post Type Menus
I'm writing a plugin for work because our main website is being ported to WordPress eventually. I've got multiple custom post types planned for this plugin and would like to group them all into one ...
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Custom Post Types 404 Issue
I dont know why my custom post types render the Page not found. This is the code I am using to register custom posts.
www.example.com/products/product1/ renders 404 where as ...
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Can I make user role that can only access a certian content type?
I would like make a custom role that can only access a custom content type that I'm going to be creating in the admin. Is that possible and does any know of any examples or tutorias that I should ...
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Returning search results by relevance, including Custom Post Types
The default WordPress search setup isn't really working for my website's setup.
I have two custom post types (species, glossary) which I'd like to search for, as well as the standard post type.
The ...
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Two Custom Post Types, Share Two Taxonomies
I have two custom post types
Hotels
Things to do
And I have two taxonomies
Activities
Regions
So when a user sees a Hotel (custom post): the user can then see
the region it's in
what ...
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Use template_include with custom post types
I want to check for an appropriate template in the theme folder before falling back to the file in my plugin directory. Here’s my code:
add_filter('template_include', 'sermon_template_include');
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Page as child in custom post type slug?
I have the following structure:
/projects (archive of cpt projects with template archive-projects.php)
/projects/project-1 (single view of cpt with template single-projects.php)
/projects/downloads ...
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Action hook on Edit custom post type?
Is there an explicit action hook that will fire when (or just before) the admin Edit page renders for a custom post type? Something similar to {$new_status}_{$post->post_type}?
I'm trying to find the ...
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How to filter custom posts by tags and custom fields?
I'm planning a site for a client who wants users to be able to filter upcoming events by the following criteria:
Type i.e. Comedy, Theatre, Music etc.
Date Daily or Weekend
Duration Daily or Half ...
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Create page to handle form submission
I currently have some custom post types "shops" (actually more like pages than posts) and a custom taxonomy "products" linked to those post types.
I'm attempting to create a form (via shortcode) that ...
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Creating a Custom Post Type for Inserting Preset Content into Post & Pages?
In response to Mike Schinkel's comment (see below) on my post about how to pre-populate content (essentially using a content template)...
@Scott B I mean why did you support a
file on disk ...
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How do you create an archive for a custom post type from a plugin?
So I'm creating a plugin to create buildings that list condos for sale. The simplest way to do this was to just create a custom post type for the buildings and then the listings but I'm now stuck on ...
