1. Extending WordPress. Making
use of Custom Post Types
Utsav Singh @Rathour
@codepixelzmedia
http://codepixelz.com

2. What is Custom Post Type?
• A Custom Type is a Post Type you define.
• Makes managing new content easier with
already existing format for Post types.
• They can represent any type of content you
want.

3. Inbuilt Default Post Types
• There are some post types that are pre-
defined, and they have been available since
2005. But have been in use widely since
WordPress 3.0 was introduced.
• Defatult Post Types:
Posts, Pages, Revisions, Attachments, Menu
Items

4. Why use CPT?
• Because just the feature that are bundled into
WP that we see on the Dashboard does not
make WP a complete CMS.
• It helps in managing contents in a better way.

5. Example
• Products
• Events
• Movies
• Real Estate
• ……….

6. How do you define CPT?
• register_post_types()
• Initialized using `init` hook.
add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type' );
function create_post_type() {
register_post_type( 'product',
array(
'labels' => array(
'name' => __( 'Products' ),
'singular_name' => __( 'Product' ) ),
'public' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'products')
)
);
}

8. How do you call a CPT?
• Template Files
– single-product.php
– Archive-product.php
*where product is a custom post type name.

9. Query through CPT
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'product',
'posts_per_page' => 10
);
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
the_title();
echo '<div class="entry-content">';
the_content();
echo '</div>';
endwhile;

10. Custom Taxonomy (Category) for CPT
• register_taxonomy('product_category', 'product', $args );

12. Garnish using Custom Meta Box
• You can also add different attributes to your
newly created CPT by creating Custom Meta
Box that intake the values such as Price,
Weight, and so on….

13. Thank You