Richard Bush

<p>The Haley Marketing How-To Tips plugin creates a Custom Post Type for managing a knowledge base section of your site. It adds a custom taxonomy and two widgets to display the custom taxonomy list and a Recent Tips sidebar.</p>
<p>The post type and taxonomy labels can be customized from the admin panel.</p>


HMG How-To Tips

The Haley Marketing How-To Tips plugin creates a Custom Post Type for managing a knowledge…

thingsym

<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.

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