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<h4>Custom Post Types</h4>
<p>WordPress can be more than just a blog.  By default, WordPress allows you to create blog posts and pages (and links, and comments,…).  But it can do more than that.  With a little elbow grease, you can put in all kinds of different information.  <em>Blog post</em> and <em>page</em> are two different types of <em>posts</em>.  WordPress also allows you to create <em>custom post types</em>.  Your site could have the post type <em>employee</em>, or <em>product</em>, or <em>movie</em>, or <em>super hero</em>.</p>
<p>Normally, you need to be a code monkey to pull this off.  If requires quite a bit of programming.  <strong>Postyper</strong> aims to remedy that.  It provides you with an interface to define your own custom post types, without the computer science degree.</p>
<p>Once you have your custom post types defined, you’ll need to work on a way to display them.  Postyper creates archives for you, and individual pages for your posts.  But in order to display your custom field information, you’ll need to modify your templates.  For this, you’ll probably need to get a template developer.</p>
<h4>For Template Developers</h4>
<p>Postyper uses WordPress’s native post meta system.  So all custom information entered by editors can be retrieved using the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta" rel="nofollow ugc">get_post_meta()</a> or <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_custom" rel="nofollow ugc">get_post_custom()</a> functions.  You can also use the WordPress hierarchy to create templates for each post type, including single-<em>postype</em>.php, archive-<em>postype</em>.php, etc.</p>
<h3>Future Changes</h3>
<p>We’re excited about the potential of Postyper and will continue to develop its functionality.  Future improvements include:</p>
<ol>
<li>New field type: multi-post</li>
<li>Group fields.  For instance, with type post types, actor and movie, one would want to select with actors are in the movie, and for each actor, the name of the character they played.</li>
<li>Shortcodes for displaying meta field information.</li>
<li>More field types.</li>
<li>Unicorns.</li>
</ol>


Postyper

Create custom post types through the admin system.

webdevstudios

Michael Beckwith

pluginize

modemlooper

Brad Williams

John Hawkins

<p>Custom Post Type UI provides an easy-to-use interface for registering and managing custom post types and taxonomies for your website.</p>
<h4>Custom Post Type UI Extended</h4>
<p>CPTUI helps create custom content types, but displaying that content can be a whole new challenge. <a href="https://pluginize.com/plugins/custom-post-type-ui-extended/?utm_source=cptui-desription&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=wporg" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Post Type UI Extended</a> was created to help with displaying your crafted content. <a href="https://pluginize.com/cpt-ui-extended-features/?utm_source=cptui-description-examples&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=wporg" rel="nofollow ugc">View our Layouts page</a> to see available layout examples with Custom Post Type UI Extended.</p>
<h4>Plugin development</h4>
<p>Custom Post Type UI development is managed on GitHub, with official releases published on WordPress.org. The GitHub repo can be found at <a href="https://github.com/WebDevStudios/custom-post-type-ui" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/WebDevStudios/custom-post-type-ui</a>. Please use the WordPress.org support tab for potential bugs, issues, or enhancement ideas.</p>


Custom Post Type UI

Works well, but it's missing a number of CPT options: rest_namespace, capabilities, map_meta_cap, register_meta_box_cb, rewrite[feeds, pages, ep_mask], template, and template_lock. I realize these are not common, but it's a drag when you go to create your third CPT and realize you need to find a different solution that will accommodate one of the missing options. It's no good to have a few registered in CPTUI and a few by hand.

Good, but missing a bunch of options.


There is no documentation. In plugin description there is just a link to so called documentation that is just bunch of tutorial of doing specific stuff that are very scarce and targeted to people who already know how to use it. Nothing for first time users, to learn how to actually begin with plugin, or at least nothing that can be easily found.


One of the worst documented plugins I saw


Thank you very much for this amazing Plugin that serves us since years!


Amazing Plugin


speeds up development and has nice user-friendly UI. It was a nice experience working with this plugin.


really useful


Plugins like these make wordpress worthwile


Great piece of software

Admin UI for creating custom content types like post types and taxonomies

Postyper vs Custom Post Type UI