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<p>Custom Post Type Widgets plugin adds default custom post type widgets.<br />
You can filter by registered Custom Post Type or Taxonomy on widgets.</p>
<h4>Descriptions of Widgets</h4>
<h4>Recent Posts (Custom Post Type)</h4>
<p>display a list of the most recent custom posts.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Title</strong> – description that appears over the list of recent custom posts.</li>
<li><strong>Post Type</strong> – if selected, filter by a custom post type. (e.g. post).</li>
<li><strong>Number of posts to show (at most 15)</strong> – enter the number of posts to display.</li>
<li><strong>Display post date?</strong> – if checked, display post date.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Archives (Custom Post Type)</h4>
<p>display a list of archive links for each month that has custom posts.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Title</strong> – description that appears over the list of archive links.</li>
<li><strong>Post Type</strong> – if selected, filter by a custom post type. (e.g. post).</li>
<li><strong>Archive Type</strong></li>
<li><strong>Display as dropdown</strong> – if checked, this box causes the archives to be displayed in a drop-down box.</li>
<li><strong>Show post counts</strong> – if checked, this box causes a count of the number of posts for each archive period.</li>
<li><strong>Order</strong></li>
</ul>
<h4>Categories (Custom Post Type)</h4>
<p>display a list of categories that has custom posts.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Title</strong> – description that appears over the list of categories.</li>
<li><strong>Taxonomy</strong> – if selected, filter a custom taxonomy (e.g. category).</li>
<li><strong>Display as dropdown</strong> – if checked, this box causes the categories to be displayed in a dropdown box.</li>
<li><strong>Show post counts</strong> – if checked, this box causes the count of the number of posts to display with each category.</li>
<li><strong>Show hierarchy</strong> – if checked, shows parent/child relationships in an indented manner.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Calendar (Custom Post Type)</h4>
<p>display a calendar of the current month.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Title</strong> – description that appears over the calendar.</li>
<li><strong>Post Type</strong> – if selected, filter by a custom post type. (e.g. post).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Recent Comments (Custom Post Type)</h4>
<p>display a list of the most recent comments.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Title</strong> – description that appears over the list of recent comments.</li>
<li><strong>Post Type</strong> – if selected, filter by a custom post type. (e.g. post).</li>
<li><strong>Number of comments to show (at most 15)</strong> – enter the number of comments to be displayed.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Tag Cloud (Custom Post Type)</h4>
<p>display a list of the top 45 that has used in a tag cloud.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Title</strong> – description that appears over the tag cloud.</li>
<li><strong>Taxonomy</strong> – if selected, filter a custom taxonomy (e.g. post_tag).</li>
<li><strong>Show tag counts</strong> – if checked, this box causes the count of the number of tags to display with each tag.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Search (Custom Post Type)</h4>
<p>A search form for your site.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Title</strong> – description that appears over the search.</li>
<li><strong>Post Type</strong> – if selected, filter by a custom post type. (e.g. post).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Hooks</h4>
<p>Custom Post Type Widgets has its own hooks. See the reference for details.</p>
<p>Reference: <a href="https://github.com/thingsym/custom-post-type-widgets#hooks" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/thingsym/custom-post-type-widgets#hooks</a></p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>If you have any trouble, you can use the forums or report bugs.</p>
<ul>
<li>Forum: <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-post-type-widgets/" rel="ugc">https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-post-type-widgets/</a></li>
<li>Issues: <a href="https://github.com/thingsym/custom-post-type-widgets/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/thingsym/custom-post-type-widgets/issues</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribution</h4>
<p>Small patches and bug reports can be submitted a issue tracker in Github. Forking on Github is another good way. You can send a pull request.</p>
<p>Translating a plugin takes a lot of time, effort, and patience. I really appreciate the hard work from these contributors.</p>
<p>If you have created or updated your own language pack, you can send gettext PO and MO files to author. I can bundle it into plugin.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/thingsym/custom-post-type-widgets" rel="nofollow ugc">VCS – GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-widgets/" rel="ugc">Homepage – WordPress Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/custom-post-type-widgets" rel="nofollow ugc">Translate Custom Post Type Widgets into your language.</a></li>
</ul>
<p>You can also contribute by answering issues on the forums.</p>
<ul>
<li>Forum: <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-post-type-widgets/" rel="ugc">https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-post-type-widgets/</a></li>
<li>Issues: <a href="https://github.com/thingsym/custom-post-type-widgets/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/thingsym/custom-post-type-widgets/issues</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Patches and Bug Fixes</h4>
<p>Forking on Github is another good way. You can send a pull request.</p>
<ol>
<li>Fork <a href="https://github.com/thingsym/custom-post-type-widgets" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Post Type Widgets</a> from GitHub repository</li>
<li>Create a feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature</li>
<li>Commit your changes: git commit -am ‘Add some feature’</li>
<li>Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature</li>
<li>Create new Pull Request</li>
</ol>
<h4>Contribute guidlines</h4>
<p>If you would like to contribute, here are some notes and guidlines.</p>
<ul>
<li>All development happens on the <strong>develop</strong> branch, so it is always the most up-to-date</li>
<li>The <strong>master</strong> branch only contains tagged releases</li>
<li>If you are going to be submitting a pull request, please submit your pull request to the <strong>develop</strong> branch</li>
<li>See about <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/" rel="nofollow ugc">forking</a> and <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/" rel="nofollow ugc">pull requests</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Test Matrix</h4>
<p>For operation compatibility between PHP version and WordPress version, see below <a href="https://github.com/thingsym/custom-post-type-widgets/actions" rel="nofollow ugc">Github Actions</a>.</p>


Custom Post Type Widgets

Perfect!!! Just what I needed.

Solid and helpful plugin that does exactly what it says it will do. Just what I needed too! Thanks. :-)

Excellent!

Custom Post Type Widgets plugin adds default custom post type widgets.

bigboomdesign

GregGay

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<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Create and manage custom post types and taxonomies from WP Admin.  Post type settings include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Post type labels</li>
<li>WP Admin menu icon and position</li>
<li>URL slug and post type name/handle</li>
<li>Basic query arguments like ‘Posts per page’, ‘Orderby’, and ‘Order’</li>
<li>Basic post type settings like ‘Public’ and ‘Has Archive’, ‘Supports’, and ‘Exclude From Search’</li>
<li>Support for REST API using ‘show_in_rest’ and ‘rest_base’ arguments</li>
<li>Use hooks to add your own post type settings</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add content using the WYSIWYG to act as the post type description for archive pages, and provide an option to show taxonomy term descriptions on term archive pages (for themes that don’t do this by default).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Pick and choose fields from Advanced Custom Fields groups to be displayed on single and archive views.  Compatible with both ACF and ACF Pro.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Choose image size and alignment for single and archive views with ACF image fields</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Automatically detect URL and social media fields, converting them into links</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Support for ACF and ACF Pro field types like checkboxes, image, date picker, gallery field (with integration using Lightbox), Google Map, oEmbed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Full-featured advanced search widget with customizable filters and field selection for the search results display</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Use hooks to further customize core functionality like post type editing and registration, front end field display and value processing, and more</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>For more details, check out the plugin’s <a href="https://github.com/bigboomdesign/big-boom-directory" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> page.</p>


Big Boom Directory

Amazing all the features this plugin has built in.
Extremely easy to use.



Very Powerful

Directory management system based on Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Fields

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