Casey Bisson

<p>This is a convenience class and collection of methods to make creating new custom post types with their own metaboxes easy.</p>
<p>The general idea is to define a function that’s hooked to the <code>register_post_types</code> action. The function defines a class for your post type that extends the <code>GO_Cpt</code> class. This follows a design pattern established by the modern widgets API (as introduced in WP 2.8) https://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API#Developing_Widgets .</p>
<p>The result is a new custom post type and much easier creation and updating of custom meta associated with that post type. You’ll also have a convenient object you can use to access the metadata associated with each post.</p>
<pre><code>function my_customposttype() {     class My_CustomPostType extends GO_Cpt     {         function __construct()         {             // execute the parent constructor with the name 
            // and definition for the custom post type             parent::__construct( $post_type_name , $post_type_definition );         }          function metabox( $post , $meta )         {             // print out the form here             // 
            // this method is optional, only use it if you want to 
            // add a metabox to your custom post type         }          function update( $new_meta , $old_meta )         {             // sanitize and validate the metadata             // then return $meta so it can be saved             //             // this method is required if a 
            // metabox() method is included          }     }      global $my_customposttype;     $my_customposttype = new My_CustomPostType; }  // hook that function to the register_post_types action add_action( 'register_post_types' , 'my_customposttype' ); </code></pre>
<p>Backstory: defining the post type class inside the function avoids issues with loading order and fatal errors resulting from attempting to extend a class that might not exist yet. Isn’t PHP awesome?</p>
<p>See the included hello world example: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/go-cptfactory/trunk/example-helloworld-cpt.php</p>
<p>To access the meta associated with a post, you can call <code>$my_customposttype->get_meta( $post_id );</code></p>
<p>You can easily add a method and hook to filter <code>the_content</code> or <code>the_excerpt</code> to insert custom values that may have been entered in the post meta. Simply add <code>add_filter( 'the_content' , array( $this , 'the_content' ));</code> in the <code>__construct()</code> and then define another method in the <code>My_CustomPostType</code> class such as:`</p>
<pre><code>    function the_content( $content )     { 
        $meta_print = print_r( $this->get_meta( get_the_ID() ) , TRUE ); 
        return $meta_print . $content 
    } </code></pre>
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GigaOM Custom Post Type Factory

Makes defining custom post types as easy as creating a widget. Includes example code to get you started.

Jon Christopher

Pär Thernström

<p>Adds a CMS-like tree overview of all your pages and custom posts to WordPress – much like the view often found in a page-focused CMS.</p>
<p>Also check out <a href="https://organizewp.com/?utm_campaign=migrate&utm_source=cmstpv&utm_medium=readme&utm_content=desclink" rel="nofollow ugc">OrganizeWP</a> if your goal is to incorporate multiple content types into a single view!</p>
<p>Within this tree you can edit pages, view pages, add pages, search pages, and drag and drop pages to rearrange the order.</p>
<p>CMS Tree Page View is a good alternative to plugins such as pageMash, WordPress Page Tree and My Page Order. For <strong>multiple content types</strong> and other new features check out <a href="https://organizewp.com/?utm_campaign=migrate&utm_source=cmstpv&utm_medium=readme&utm_content=desclink" rel="nofollow ugc">OrganizeWP</a> as well.</p>
<p>Page management in WordPress won’t get any easier than this!</p>
<h4>Features and highlights:</h4>
<ul>
<li>View your pages & posts in a tree-view, like you view files in Windows Explorer or the Finder in OS X</li>
<li>Drag and drop to rearrange/order your pages</li>
<li>Add pages after or inside a page</li>
<li>Add multiple pages at once – perfect for setting up a new site structure</li>
<li>Edit pages</li>
<li>View pages</li>
<li>Search pages</li>
<li>Available for both regular pages and custom posts</li>
<li>Works with both hierarchical and non-hierarchical post types</li>
<li>View your site hierarchy directly from the WordPress dashboard</li>
<li>Drag and drop between trees with different post types to change to post type of the draged item, i.e. change a regular page to became any custom post type</li>
<li>Support for translation plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/" rel="ugc">WPML</a>, so you can manage all the languages of your site</li>
</ul>
<h4>Show your pages on your site in the same order as they are in CMS Tree Page View</h4>
<p>To show your pages on your website in the same order as they appear in this plugin, you must<br />
sort them by “menu order”.</p>
<pre><code>// Example using query_posts
$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'page',
  'orderby'=> 'menu_order',
  'order'=>'ASC',
);
$posts = query_posts($args);

// Example using wp_query
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'page',
    'orderby' => 'menu_order',
    'order' => 'ASC',
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
</code></pre>
<h4>Screencast</h4>
<p>(An updated screencast is coming soon!)</p>
<p>Watch this screencast to see how easy you could be managing your pages:<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H4BGomLi_FU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h4>Translations/Languages</h4>
<p>This plugin is available in the following languages:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Belorussian</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>Hungarian</li>
<li>Norwegian</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Greek</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Lithuanian</li>
<li>Estonian</li>
<li>Finnish</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
<li>Ukrainian, by <a href="http://getvoip.com" rel="nofollow ugc">getvoip.com</a></li>
<li>Slovak</li>
</ul>
<h4>Always show your pages in the admin area</h4>
<p>If you want to always have a list of your pages available in your WordPress admin area, please check out the plugin<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-menu-tree-page-view/" rel="ugc">Admin Menu Tree Page View</a>.</p>
<h4>Donation and more plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li>Check out my other plugin <a href="http://simple-history.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple History</a> if you want to see a log of changes in your WordPress admin. With Simple History you can see login attempts (both failed and sucessful), page changes, plugin updated, and more. It’s a great way to view user actions on your site!</li>
<li>If you like this plugin don’t forget to <a href="http://eskapism.se/sida/donate/" rel="nofollow ugc">donate to support further development</a>.</li>
</ul>


CMS Tree Page View


CMS Tree Page View is straightforward, very useful and well-maintained. Everything that open source should be. WordPress owes its success to developers like Jon Christopher and Pär Thernström who create powerful, truly open source solutions like CMS Tree Page View and Simple History and share them for free, without huge advertising banners or interruption marketing with unnecessary admin notifications.



We are proud to modestly sponsor Simple History and Pär. We sponsored Jon Christopher enough with his SearchWP plugin which practices discriminatory pricing against existing users (much higher renewal prices than purchase prices) which is the antithesis of the open source spirit.


Well-maintained, extremely useful open source tool

Adds a tree view of all pages & custom posts. Get a great overview + options to drag & drop to reorder & option to add multiple pages.

GigaOM Custom Post Type Factory vs CMS Tree Page View