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<h4>Custom Post Types</h4>
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. Blog post and page are two different types of posts. WordPress also allows you to create custom post types. Your site could have the post type employee, or product, or movie, or super hero.
Normally, you need to be a code monkey to pull this off. If requires quite a bit of programming. Postyper aims to remedy that. It provides you with an interface to define your own custom post types, without the computer science degree.
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.
<h4>For Template Developers</h4>
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-postype.php, archive-postype.php, etc.
<h3>Future Changes</h3>
We’re excited about the potential of Postyper and will continue to develop its functionality. Future improvements include:
<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.

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More Types is a WordPress plugin that adds new post types to the WordPress admin. For instance, if you run a music site you could create a review post type (based on the post). If you run a food blog you could create a post type for recipes.
If you use More Fields in addition to More Types you could for instance add an input field where you put the ingredients and another where you input cooking time.
With More Types you can:
<ul>
<li>Create additional post types</li>
<li>Allow different WordPress User roles to have different rights to review, save, and publish a specific post type (even built in post types)</li>
<li>List posts in specific menus in the WordPress admin</li>
<li>Set a range of editing capabilities of the post type based on user level</li>
</ul>
More Types is part of a suite of plugins created to enhance the functionality of a vanilla WordPress installation. With More Fields you can create additional input fields for easier management of Custom fields, with More Taxonomies you can create additional taxonomies besides Categories and Tags. More Types works without the other plugins but interacts with them nicely.
This plugins was born out of the development work done for <a href="http://dagensskiva.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dagensskiva</a>, <a href="http://dagensbok.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dagensbok</a> and user requests.
<h3>Upgrading from More Fields 1.x?</h3>
If you’re upgrading from More Fields 1.x you need to take a couple of steps to continue working with your already defined Post Types.
<ol>
<li>Upgrade to More Fields 1.5.1 (this prepares the More Fields fields and Post types for WP 3.0)</li>
<li>Update to WordPress 3.0 still using More Fields 1.5.1</li>
<li>Upgrade to More Fields 2.0</li>
<li>Install More Types 1.0</li>
</ol>

More Types

Adds any number of extra Post types, besides Post and Page, for the WordPess Admin. Also allows for special editing rights for specific User roles for …

Postyper vs More Types