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Query All The Post Types is a lightweight developer tool that auto-detects every registered post type on your WordPress site and displays comprehensive information about each one.
Post types are automatically grouped by origin. No configuration required.
WooCommerce store owners: All of your core WooCommerce post types (products, orders, coupons, subscriptions, etc.) are grouped in a dedicated WooCommerce tab for easy access.
Developers and AI users: As of version 2.1, Query All The Post Types now registers every post type as a discoverable entry in the WordPress Abilities API introduced in WordPress 6.9. Any authenticated tool, such as an MCP client, an AI assistant, or a custom admin dashboard, can query your site and get a complete, structured inventory of every post type, what it supports, and how it’s configured.
As of version 2.2, QATP includes a built-in API Explorer so you can browse, query, and share your site’s post type data directly from the WordPress admin without writing any code. Which makes building Custom Post Types easier and verifying the production site has all of the data needed.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Auto-Detection – Discovers all post types registered by WordPress core, plugins, and themes</li>
<li>Tabbed Interface – Post types organized into logical groups for easy navigation.</li>
<li>Comprehensive Data – View all registration settings, REST API config, supports, taxonomies, and labels</li>
<li>REST API Links – Clickable endpoint URLs for post types exposed to the REST API</li>
<li>WooCommerce Tab – Dedicated purple tab groups all your WooCommerce post types (products, orders, coupons, and more)</li>
<li>Quick Actions – View All and Add New buttons for post types with admin UI</li>
<li>WordPress Abilities API – Every post type registered as a machine-readable ability (WordPress 6.9+)</li>
<li>API Explorer – Browse, query, and copy commands for any post type directly from the admin (version 2.2+)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Post Type Groups</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress Core – Public – Built-in types with a UI (post, page, attachment)</li>
<li>WordPress Core – Internal – Built-in types without a UI (revision, nav_menu_item, wp_template, etc.)</li>
<li>WooCommerce – Products, orders, coupons, subscriptions, and more (when active)</li>
<li>Advanced Custom Fields / ACF Pro – Field groups, post types, taxonomies, and options pages (when active)</li>
<li>Elementor – Elementor library, floating buttons, and component types (when active)</li>
<li>LearnDash – Courses, lessons, topics, quizzes, assignments, and more (when active)</li>
<li>BuddyPress – Groups, member types, and email types (when active)</li>
<li>GiveWP – Donation forms and payment types (when active)</li>
<li>Easy Digital Downloads – Downloads and EDD-registered types (when active)</li>
<li>AppPresser – Push notification and log types (when active)</li>
<li>Plugin/Theme – Public – Custom post types from any other plugin or theme, with a public UI</li>
<li>Plugin/Theme – Internal – Custom post types from any other plugin or theme, without a public UI</li>
</ul>
<h4>Data Displayed Per Post Type</h4>
<ul>
<li>Slug, description, and all boolean settings</li>
<li>Public, publicly queryable, show UI, show in nav menus, show in admin bar</li>
<li>REST API: show in REST, REST base, REST namespace, REST controller class</li>
<li>Has archive, exclude from search, capability type, map meta cap</li>
<li>Hierarchical, rewrite rules, query var, menu position, menu icon</li>
<li>Can export, delete with user</li>
<li>Supported features (title, editor, thumbnail, excerpt, comments, etc.)</li>
<li>Associated taxonomies with admin links</li>
<li>All registered labels (expandable section)</li>
<li>REST API endpoint URL (clickable)</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Abilities API</h3>
Starting in version 2.1, QATP registers every post type as a WordPress Ability: a machine-readable declaration that authenticated tools can query via the REST API.
This feature requires WordPress 6.9 or later. On older versions, QATP continues to work normally and the Abilities API integration is silently skipped.
<h4>What gets registered</h4>
Each post type is registered as an ability under the <code>qatp/</code> namespace. For example with WordPress Core, <code>qatp/post</code>, <code>qatp/product</code>, <code>qatp/page</code>. Abilities are grouped into categories matching the tabs you see in the admin UI: <code>qatp-core-public</code>, <code>qatp-core-internal</code>, <code>qatp-woocommerce</code>, and so on.
Running an ability returns a structured data object for that post type:
<ul>
<li><code>slug</code> – the registered post type name</li>
<li><code>label</code> – plural label (e.g. “Posts”)</li>
<li><code>singular</code> – singular label (e.g. “Post”)</li>
<li><code>public</code>, <code>show_ui</code>, <code>show_in_rest</code>, <code>hierarchical</code> – boolean flags</li>
<li><code>rest_base</code> – the REST API base URL segment</li>
<li><code>supports</code> – array of supported features (title, editor, thumbnail, etc.)</li>
<li><code>taxonomies</code> – array of associated taxonomy slugs</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who can access it</h4>
Access requires the <code>manage_options</code> capability, meaning site administrators only. This is intentional. Post type registration data can reveal details about your site’s plugin stack and data architecture. It is not exposed publicly.
<h3>API Explorer</h3>
The API Explorer is a built-in interface for browsing and querying your site’s WordPress Abilities directly from the admin. It is available as of version 2.2.
To open it, go to Tools > Query Post Types and click API Explorer in the toggle at the top right of the page.
<h4>How it works</h4>
When you open the Explorer, you see a row of pills across the top. Each pill represents an ecosystem on your site: WooCommerce, LearnDash, GiveWP, core WordPress types, and so on. Click a pill to filter the results to that group. Click All to see everything.
Below the pills, each post type on your site appears as a card. The card shows the ability name, the label, and which ecosystem it belongs to.
Click a card to select it. A Run button appears below the cards and Command Reference. Click Run button to fetch the live data for that ability and see the full JSON response displayed below.
<h4>The Command Reference</h4>
Every time you select a card and run an ability, the Command Reference panel updates automatically. It shows you three ways to fetch that same data yourself:
<ul>
<li>REST URL – a clickable link you can open directly in your browser while logged in as an admin</li>
<li>WP-CLI – a ready-to-copy WP-CLI command that runs the same request from the terminal, authenticated as your current user account</li>
<li>curl – a curl command using Application Password authentication that works from any terminal or HTTP client</li>
</ul>
REST URL example:
<pre><code>https://yoursite.com/wp-json/wp-abilities/v1/abilities/qatp/post/run?_wpnonce=abc123
</code></pre>
The nonce is generated automatically and appended to the URL. The link works in your browser as long as you are logged in as an admin.
WP-CLI example:
<pre><code>wp --user=1 eval 'print_r(rest_do_request(new WP_REST_Request("GET", "/wp-abilities/v1/abilities/qatp/post/run")));'
</code></pre>
The <code>--user=</code> flag is automatically set to your current WordPress user ID. You do not need to edit the command.
curl example:
<pre><code>curl -s -u "admin:application_password" "https://yoursite.com/wp-json/wp-abilities/v1/abilities/qatp/post/run"
</code></pre>
Replace <code>admin</code> with your WordPress username and <code>application_password</code> with an Application Password generated from your profile. See the Application Passwords section below.
<h4>Application Passwords for curl</h4>
The curl command in the Command Reference uses Application Password authentication. Application Passwords are a built-in WordPress feature (available since WordPress 5.6) that let external tools authenticate with the REST API without using your main account password.
To generate an Application Password:
<ol>
<li>Go to Users > Your Profile in your WordPress admin</li>
<li>Scroll down to the Application Passwords section</li>
<li>Enter a name for the password (e.g. “QATP curl”)</li>
<li>Click Add New Application Password</li>
<li>Copy the generated password immediately. WordPress does not show it again.</li>
</ol>
Use the generated password in place of <code>application_password</code> in the curl command. Spaces in the generated password are fine — you can include them as-is or remove them.
Note: The <code>X-WP-Nonce</code> authentication approach used in some WordPress tutorials only works when a browser session cookie is also present. It does not work for standalone curl requests from a terminal. Application Passwords are the correct approach for curl and all external HTTP clients.
<h4>Selecting multiple post types</h4>
You can select more than one card at a time. Click additional cards to add them to your selection. A bar appears above the results showing how many abilities you have selected, with a Clear button to start over.
When you have two or more abilities selected, the Command Reference updates to show one curl command per selected ability, stacked together. This gives you a ready-made set of commands you can run in sequence to pull data for all your selected post types at once.
Click Run All to fetch all selected abilities at once and see their responses stacked in the drilldown panel. This is useful when you want to compare post type configurations side by side.
You can mix and match across ecosystems. Select a LearnDash course, a GiveWP form, and a WooCommerce product all at the same time to get the commands for all three in one block.
<h4>Shareable links</h4>
The URL in your browser updates as you make selections. If you are in Explorer mode with abilities selected, the URL encodes that state using a hash fragment:
<pre><code>https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=query-all-the-post-types#mode=explorer&abilities=qatp/product,qatp/course
</code></pre>
Copy and paste the URL into Slack, an email, or a document. Anyone with admin access on that site can open it and land in the exact same view, with the same abilities selected and the Command Reference already populated.
The back button also works as expected. Navigate to a previous selection by pressing back, just like any other page.
<h4>Giving the Explorer output to Claude</h4>
The API Explorer is designed to work with AI assistants. Copy the curl commands from the Command Reference and paste them into a conversation with Claude. Claude can read the JSON responses and use them to understand your site’s post type structure, answer questions about your data architecture, or help you write code that works with your specific setup.
You can also share the URL directly. A URL with abilities pre-selected is a compact way to give someone, or an AI tool, a pointer to exactly what you want them to look at.
<h4>How to browse without the Explorer</h4>
In your browser: 
Go to Tools > Query Post Types in your WordPress admin. The sidebar shows a Browse Abilities API button. Click it and it opens the endpoint in a new tab with authentication already handled.
Install a JSON Formatter browser extension (available for Chrome and Firefox) to make the output readable.
Note: visiting the endpoint URL directly in your browser without clicking the button will return a 401 error. The WordPress REST API requires a valid nonce for cookie-authenticated requests. The button generates one automatically.
With WP-CLI:
See all QATP abilities and their descriptions:
<pre><code>wp --url=https://yoursite.com --user=1 eval '$r = rest_do_request(new WP_REST_Request("GET", "/wp-abilities/v1/abilities")); $qatp = array_filter($r->get_data(), fn($a) => strpos($a["name"], "qatp/") === 0); foreach ($qatp as $a) { echo $a["name"] . "\n " . $a["label"] . " - " . $a["description"] . "\n"; }'
</code></pre>
Run a specific ability to get full structured data:
<pre><code>wp --url=https://yoursite.com --user=1 eval '$r = rest_do_request(new WP_REST_Request("GET", "/wp-abilities/v1/abilities/qatp/post/run")); echo json_encode($r->get_data(), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);'
</code></pre>
Replace <code>--user=1</code> with the ID of any administrator account on your site if user ID 1 is not an admin.
With curl:
List all QATP abilities:
<pre><code>curl -s -u "admin:application_password" "https://yoursite.com/wp-json/wp-abilities/v1/abilities?category=qatp-core-public"
</code></pre>
Run a specific ability:
<pre><code>curl -s -u "admin:application_password" "https://yoursite.com/wp-json/wp-abilities/v1/abilities/qatp/post/run"
</code></pre>
With Postman or any REST client: 
Create an Application Password in your WordPress admin under Users > Your Profile > Application Passwords. Use HTTP Basic Auth with your username and the generated password. Send a GET request to <code>https://yoursite.com/wp-json/wp-abilities/v1/abilities</code>.

Query All The Post Types

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Essential Content Types allows you to feature the impressive content through different content/post types on your website just the way you want it. These content/post types are missed by the themes in WordPress Theme Directory as the feature falls more towards the plugins’ territory.
Content is at the forefront of any website. Changing the layout of your important content changes the way your website looks, which may not be a plus point if your current website layout is loved by your users.
Additionally, switching themes changes your website layout completely. Therefore, to keep things looking spic-and- span in your website, we bring you Essential Content.
Essential Content allows you to add up to three content/post types: 
* Portfolio – Create and display your portfolio on your website 
* Testimonials – Add customer testimonials to your website 
* Featured Content – Display the content you want as featured content on your website to attract visitors’ attention 
* Services – Add your services on your website
Features of Essential Content: 
* Enable/Disable any content/post type as needed 
* Light-weight 
* Supports all themes on WordPress
Essential Content is inspired by Jetpack’s Custom Content Types feature.
However, not everyone wants to have a plugin that “does-it- all”. Some may want plugins to be niche focused and concentrate on smaller areas.
That is precisely what we have done with Essential Content. Essential content, true to its name, has only the essential elements. We have added the features that WordPressers use most. We have ruled out all other elements to make it non-bloated and clean. It takes up lesser space and does the job well.
If you think we have missed any essential content/post types, please let us know. We’ll review the frequency of usage and add your suggestions.
Portfolio Shortcode
You can use shortcodes to embed portfolio projects on posts and pages.
Embedding Portfolio Projects
To embed portfolio projects on posts and pages, first activate the Portfolio custom content type on your site and add some projects to your portfolio.
Next, add the <code>[portfolio]</code> shortcode to a post or page. The shortcode will display projects in different ways, depending on how you use the optional attributes to customize the portfolio layout.
Attributes 
* display_types: display Project Types. (true/false) 
* display_tags: display Project Tags. (true/false) 
* display_content: display project content. (true/false) 
* include_type: display specific Project Types. Defaults to all. (comma-separated list of Project Type slugs) 
* include_tag: display specific Project Tags. Defaults to all. (comma-separated list of Project Tag slugs) 
* columns: number of columns in shortcode. Defaults to 2. (number, 1-6) 
* showposts: number of projects to display. Defaults to all. (number) 
* order: display projects in ascending or descending order. Defaults to ASC for sorting in ascending order, but you can reverse the order by using DESC to display projects in descending order instead. (ASC/DESC) 
* orderby: sort projects by different criteria, including author name, project title, and even rand to display in a random order. Defaults to sorting by date. (author, date, title, rand)
Example
<pre><code>[portfolio display_types="true" display_tags="false" include_type="grooming-tips,best-kitties" columns="2" showposts="10" orderby="title"]
</code></pre>
The example will display up to ten portfolio projects in two columns, in ascending alphabetical order by project title. It will display Project Types, hide Project Tags, and only display projects that are assigned the “Grooming Tips” or “Best Kitties” Project Types.
Featured Content Shortcode
You can use shortcodes to embed featured content on posts and pages.
Embedding Featured Content Projects
To embed featured content on posts and pages, first activate the Featured Content content type on your site and add some projects to your featured content.
Next, add the <code>[featured_content]</code> shortcode to a post or page. The shortcode will display projects in different ways, depending on how you use the optional attributes to customize the featured content layout.
Attributes 
* display_types: display Content Types. (true/false) 
* display_tags: display Content Tags. (true/false) 
* display_content: display project content. (true/false) 
* include_type: display specific Content Types. Defaults to all. (comma-separated list of Content Type slugs) 
* include_tag: display specific Content Tags. Defaults to all. (comma-separated list of Content Tag slugs) 
* columns: number of columns in shortcode. Defaults to 2. (number, 1-6) 
* showposts: number of projects to display. Defaults to all. (number) 
* order: display projects in ascending or descending order. Defaults to ASC for sorting in ascending order, but you can reverse the order by using DESC to display projects in descending order instead. (ASC/DESC) 
* orderby: sort projects by different criteria, including author name, project title, and even rand to display in a random order. Defaults to sorting by date. (author, date, title, rand)
Example
<pre><code>[featured_content display_types="true" display_tags="false" include_type="grooming-tips,best-kitties" columns="2" showposts="10" orderby="title"]
</code></pre>
The example will display up to ten featured content in two columns, in ascending alphabetical order by project title. It will display Content Types, hide Content Tags, and only display projects that are assigned the “Grooming Tips” or “Best Kitties” Content Types.
Testimonials Shortcode
You can use shortcodes to embed testimonials on posts and pages. 
Embedding Testimonials
To embed testimonials on posts and pages, first activate the Testimonial custom content type on your site and add some testimonials.
Next, add the <code>[testimonials]</code> shortcode to a post or page. The shortcode will display testimonials in different ways, depending on how you use the optional attributes to customize the testimonials layout.
Attributes 
* display_content: display testimonial content. (full/true/false) 
* image: display the featured image. (true/false) Defaults to true. 
* columns: number of columns in shortcode. Defaults to 1. (number, 1-6) 
* showposts: number of testimonials to display. Defaults to all. (number) 
* order: display testimonials in ascending or descending chronological order. Defaults to ASC for sorting in ascending order, but you can reverse the order by using DESC to display testimonials in descending order instead. (ASC/DESC) 
* orderby: sort testimonials by different criteria, including author name, testimonial title, and even rand to display in a random order. Defaults to sorting by date. (author, date, title, rand)
Example
<pre><code>[testimonials columns="2" showposts="10" orderby="title"]
</code></pre>
The example will display up to ten testimonials in two columns, in ascending alphabetical order by testimonial title.
Service Shortcode
You can use shortcodes to embed service on posts and pages.
Embedding Service Projects
To embed service on posts and pages, first activate the Service content type on your site and add some projects to your Service.
Next, add the <code>[services]</code> shortcode to a post or page. The shortcode will display projects in different ways, depending on how you use the optional attributes to customize the featured content layout.
Attributes 
* display_types: display Content Types. (true/false) 
* display_tags: display Content Tags. (true/false) 
* display_content: display project content. (true/false) 
* include_type: display specific Content Types. Defaults to all. (comma-separated list of Content Type slugs) 
* include_tag: display specific Content Tags. Defaults to all. (comma-separated list of Content Tag slugs) 
* columns: number of columns in shortcode. Defaults to 2. (number, 1-6) 
* showposts: number of projects to display. Defaults to all. (number) 
* order: display projects in ascending or descending order. Defaults to ASC for sorting in ascending order, but you can reverse the order by using DESC to display projects in descending order instead. (ASC/DESC) 
* orderby: sort projects by different criteria, including author name, project title, and even rand to display in a random order. Defaults to sorting by date. (author, date, title, rand)
Example
<pre><code>[services display_types="true" display_tags="false" include_type="grooming-tips,best-kitties" columns="2" showposts="10" orderby="title"]
</code></pre>
The example will display up to ten featured content in two columns, in ascending alphabetical order by project title. It will display Content Types, hide Content Tags, and only display projects that are assigned the “Grooming Tips” or “Best Kitties” Content Types.
Food Menu Shortcode
You can use shortcodes to embed Food Menu on posts and pages. 
Embedding Food Menu
Embedding Food Menu
To embed food menus on posts and pages, first activate the Food Menu custom content type on your site and add some food menus.
Next, add the <code>[food_menu]</code> shortcode to a post or page. The shortcode will display food menu in the selected post or page.
Attributes 
* showposts: number of menu items to display. Defaults to all. (number) 
* include_type: display specific Content Types. Defaults to all. (comma-separated list of Content Type slugs) 
* include_tag: display specific Content Tags. Defaults to all. (comma-separated list of Content Tag slugs)
Example
<pre><code>[food_menu showposts="10" include_type="pizza,burger,breakfast"]
</code></pre>
The example will display up to ten menu items. It will only display menu items in “Pizza”, “Burger” or “Breakfast” sections.
<h3>Translations</h3>
To translate the plugin, use translate.wordpress.org (GlotPress). You only need your WordPress.org account to join the collaborative translation project.
You can translate Essential Widgets on <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/essential-content-types/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wordpress.org</a>.

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Essential Content Types allows you to feature the impressive content through different content/post types on your website just the way you want it.

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