Custom Post Types extend the WordPress back-end to support additional, non-Post content.
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Custom admin columns for ALL custom post types
I have the following function which is working perfectly for my 'video' custom post type to display customized columns in the dashboard.
I have decided the way my plugin will work is to have custom ...
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Issue displaying multiple TinyMCE editors with WPAlchemy
I have a custom post type with a WPAlchemy admin meta box class including multiple textareas with TinyMCE editors(for adding content to the custom post template). I've gotten the editors to display ...
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How to best delete orphan wp_postmeta
I'm in the middle of doing some fairly complex queries involving metadata from a custom post type. Unfortunately if any posts are deleted the metadata stays put which complicates matters as I am ...
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Pagination for single custom post type page, using Posts 2 Posts plugin
Is it possible to add pagination to the single.php for a Custom Post Type, such as single-items.php. On this single page, I am using the Posts 2 Posts plugin ...
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Custom Post Type Taxonomy Filters
Im really struggling to piece this functionality together, and hope someone can help or provide snippets to get me there.
So I'm creating a section on a website where stories are published, I have ...
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Possible to hide Custom Post Type UI/Menu from specific User Roles?
What I'm looking to do is completely hide the UI for a custom post type from specific user roles...Ive previously found many resources on how to disable access to using those CPTs but nothing that ...
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Custom post type within a subdirectory
I've searched around but have not been able to find an answer to my question.
What I'm trying to do is create a custom post type that exists within a sub-directory, not just after the root as is ...
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List most recent image uploads, but only for specific custom post type
I can get a list of the most recent image attachments like so:
$attachments = get_posts( array(
'post_type' => 'attachment',
'posts_per_page' => $number,
'post_mime_type' => ...
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Customizing the display of custom post types
Currently I have a custom post type and I would like to have some different version of it based on user input - so for example when creating a post the user can select if the post is Featured or Free ...
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Add tags to custom post type without menu link
I've worked out how to add tags to custom post types using
'taxonomies' => array('post_tag')
However this adds another "Tags" submenu under my custom post type menu which I do not want. How do I ...
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How to auto send email when publishing a custom post type?
I'd like to have an email automatically sent out to my website's subscribers when I publish a post for a specific custom post type. I've found a few plugins that will do this but only for regular ...
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Custom comment status possible?
I am a newbie to WordPress and I have some experience in PHP programming.
Recently, I have a lot of comments for my WordPress blog and I wanted to manage them in better order.
I wish to "archive" ...
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Custom post type for 'staff' versus using wordpress user profiles?
A scenario I keep coming across is where an organisation might have several staff for whom I want to have some sort of listing and a single profile page with biographical information.
Typically I ...
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If custom taxonomy else conditional [closed]
I have a menu that I only want to show on certain pages using the following code:
<?php if ( is_front_page() || is_archive() || is_404() ) {
}
else
{
if ( function_exists('has_parent') ) {
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Hook to edit options/settings of custom plugin
Is there a way to hook the edit function of WP to edit options/settings of a plugin?
My plugin has some options (address, phone, etc) that are displayed on the single page of a particular custom post ...
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“regular” pages not found after changing permalink
My regular pages with the default theme can not be found, but my frontpage that is a page but it has an other theme works, even my custom post type pages work.
In my permalinks settings I have ...
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Adding Sticky functionality to Custom Post Type Archives
In WordPress, Custom Post Types do not have Sticky functionality as a core feature. It is possible, I'm sure, to create it in certain cases—and I'm working on a project that requires it for ...
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404 Error On Custom Taxonomy Pages 2, 3, etc
I've been reading a bunch of posts about this with no luck so far. I can't seem to figure out what is the problem.
I have the following:
Custom Post Type: Sermons
Custom Taxonomy: Series
My urls ...
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Assign custom posttype capabilities on init: no menu-item on activation
I develop plugin with custom post type (cpt) who has some custom capabilities. I add those capabilities to the roles (according to the current caps, see code below) on plugin activation. That won't ...
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Plugin javascript (floating elements) not working on custom post type single page template [closed]
Strange problem, not sure how to figure it out.
I had someone create me a cool little plugin that allows me to input a CSS element ID and that element will float to the top of the page and stick ...
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Custom Post Type Archive Page not showing
I have a category on my website called 'profiles' I am in the process of moving this category to a custom post type called 'profiles'.
My problem is I cannot get the archive page to show for this ...
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Cannot upload featured image to a custom post type
For some reason I am not able to upload images OR set the Featured Image on a custom post type in my custom wordpress theme.
I have added theme support of post-thumbnails to my functions.php file and ...
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Display custom taxonomy on my custom post type
Hello I am very new at customizing themes, my problem is that on my new post type "listing" single-lisiting.php file I need to change the taxonomy category to be display to 4 new taxonomies: status, ...
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Adding Menu Items in Custom Post Types
I'm creating a directory of restaurants with Custom Post Types. Each restaurant's information has its own post. I would like to be able to add the restaurant's menu items to each custom post type ...
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Custom Post Types, URL rewrite on multiple CPTs
Re: Custom post types, taxonomies, and permalinks
by @TheDeadMechanic The solution above works perfectly, and rewrite is great, but can you advise on how to rewrite for more than one custom post type ...
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rewrite get parameter with custom post type
I am trying now for a couple days to solve the following Problem:
I have a custom post type called gallery. I need the URL
http://example.com/gallery/FOOBAR
to be parsed like
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Make only one CPT available by slug
I did a lot of research until I figured out how to remove the slug from a custom post type. I used the method described in this post here.
So I have RewriteRule ^bereiche/(.+)$ /$1 [R=301] in my ...
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Add 'last' class to second post in featured post loop
Hi there I'm using the following query to pull in two featured posts onto the home page of a site I'm building. How do I add a last class to the second post it drops onto the page?
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Facebook social publisher and custom post type fields
I have a problem with how Facebook plugin shows my WordPress-based posts on my timeline. What basically happens is that the post image isn't shown.
Now, the post image I want to show is a custom ...
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Metabox does not show in custom post type
I am trying to create a metabox input field in a custom post type and it does not work even if I followed the instructions the best I could. I am not a PHP dev so I guess it could be just a small ...
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Display author box on just certain category posts?
I'm using this code to display a author box after my blog posts. The issue that I'm having is that it is showing up on all custom post types as well which I don't want. What I need is for it to show ...
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CSS for Custom Post Types
How do I assign CSS to custom post types so it displays different from other Custom Post Types?
Example:
Custom Post Type 1:
Row of 4 Images
Custom Post Type 2:
a 2 column with an Image in the ...
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Custom Post Type Query W/Category Dropdown
I'm having a bit of trouble getting a custom post type query working coming from two drop downs. Let me show you what I'm using:
The Form:
<?php require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . ...
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will post_id ever change? Can I safely use post_id for custom queries?
What are the best practices for using post_id? Can I use this safely in my templates to call specific posts, or will these post_id's ever change?
The reason I ask is that randomly today the ...
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Using custom post types in submenu + custom title
I'm planning to use a couple of custom post types for a plugin of mine. The whole plugin should reside under 1 toplevel menu item. Thus I would prefer a menu structure like so:
Dashboard
Posts
[...]
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Target post type edit page to change view post button, how do I?
I am trying to change the link of the "View Post" button that appears next to the "Change Permalinks" button above the editor on post edit screens for a custom post type.
I have altered all the ...
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Using predefined html in new posts
I hope to make my life easy by doing this. I have 2 types of posts. On the first post I have a table and each post from the respective category will fill a table row.
I will show you how a posts of ...
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Custom post types templates
I have registered a custom post type called "Services" but when I am giving the single post the template "single-services.php" its not accepting this but choosing the "homepage.php" template can u ...
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Custom post type hierarchical permalinks not behaving as expected for parent/child pages
When you have Pages with children, the permalink structure works something like this:
example.com/parent-page/child-page/
All well and good. Trying to go to this URL:
example.com/child-page/
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Custom field default value with counter
I have a custom post type called machine and a custom field 'reference_number' what I want is to add a default value to the custom field when creating a new machine and show this value before the ...
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updating one custom meta field only
i am trying to update only one custom field that is store in serialized form. By updating that field my other custom meta fields becomes blank/empty.
how can i update only a specific meta value ...
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Help integrating Custom post type meta field with custom profile fields
I have a custom post type for "locations" and I need to have "users" log in and be able to pick a location that is within a certain distance from them.
I have added some spots to the profile using ...
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Get all custom_post_type posts + blog posts from one category in a single query
Is there a way to query posts from multiple post_type's and filter the normal blog posts by a category?
I am trying to display the 10 latest custom_post_type posts and blog posts on my homepage in a ...
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How to save an integer as taxonomy term?
I've written a custom meta box such that taxonomy terms will always be integers (Unix timestamps), and I'd like to keep them as integers so I can sort these posts by their Unix Timestamp in the ...
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Image sizes incorrect with Custom Post Type [closed]
I have no idea why this is happening, but if I use custom post types at all in my theme, the thumbnails generate, but WordPress doesn't use the generated images.
The code I am using for my ...
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Sort posts based on multiple custom fields
I have a three custom fields
Meta Key → YOUR_PREFIX_newcar_body_type
Meta Key → YOUR_PREFIX_newcar_transmission_type
Meta Key → YOUR_PREFIX_newcar_variant
and I have to sort posts ...
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Custom post pagination trouble
I do have a problem with a custom post pagination. I search through this site and googled the whole day yesterday, and found nothing that was similar to what I experience (or I'm getting blind...).
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Query Custom Post Type by Taxonomy
I've created a query working fine pulling posts from a specific taxonomy—but before I had only 7 taxonomies that were permanent, now I have sub taxonomies under that main taxonomy and they will be ...
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Getting custom post type info using get_adjacent_post
This is an example of how I'm grabbing images from my custom post type now, using query_posts();
// query_posts stuff made up here.
$my_array = get_custom_field('image:to_array', 'to_image_array');
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Display featured posts for a custom post type by taxonomy
Ok, the quick explanation:
I'm using a custom post type, 'lakes'. And, using custom taxonomies to organize them. They are: state, watertype and county.
I've created a 'page' for each state that ...
