IMG Custom Post Types

Custom Post Types, are by far and away one of the best additions to WordPress. However, they can be a bit cumbersome to set-up.

With the IMG Custom Post Types plug-in creating basic custom post types is now easy.

1. Upload the img-custom-post-types folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the IMG Custom Post Types plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Add new custom post types by editing your functions.php file using these examples

• Usage: –

Simple example:
https://gist.github.com/1939891

Example with custom meta fields:
https://gist.github.com/1939907

Complex example:
https://gist.github.com/1939868

Example with custom meta fields and data types:
https://gist.github.com/1939932

Retrieving custom post type and Ordering by a date based custom field
https://gist.github.com/2157663

1. 

   Add/Edit screen of your custom post type

2. 

   View all listings for your custom post type

0.96

• Take advantage of new type=”date” input attribute/value on date fields. Removal of custom date picker where HTML5 is supported

0.951

• Bug fixed where NULL/unset foreign keys field shows the post title in table listings view

0.95

• If thumbnails are supported then they are shown in the listings screen of the custom post type
• Instead of just one to one relationships between two custom post types you can now assign one to many relationships by naming a custom field say example_taxonomy

0.941

• Date picker CSS and JavaScript improved (a tiny tiny bit)

0.94

• Bug fixed where custom taxonomies were added to posts as well as the new custom post type

0.93

• Ability to use a datepicker to date fields in custom fields
• Date fields get timestamped too, so order by date in the get_posts() function with the meta_compare value should work
• Bug fixed where custom meta fields were not showing in View Posts listings view
• Longer copy custom fields (indicated by an _textarea naming convention) not show in View Posts listings view

0.92

• Read me file improved.
• Screenshots added.

0.91

• Tiny bug fixed with the naming of custom fields