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Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.xSetup, Customization and Useage Scenarios

Morten Rand-HendriksenCreative Director, Pink & Yellow Media

www.designisphilosophy.comTwitter: @mor10

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?WHAT ARE CUSTOM POST TYPES

• Like “regular” WordPress posts, but handled separately.

• Custom single template• Custom index page• Custom taxonomies (categories

and tags)• Custom taxonomy indexes• Advanced custom queries

#CREATING A NEW CUSTOM POST TYPE


// Add new post type for Shootsadd_action('init', 'adley_shoots_init');function adley_shoots_init() { $labels = array( … stuff … ); $args = array( … stuff … ); register_post_type('shoot',$args);}


$labels = array( 'name' => _x('Shoots', 'general name'), 'singular_name' => _x('Shoot', 'singular name'), 'add_new' => _x('Add new shoot', 'shoot'), 'add_new_item' => __('Add new shoot'), 'edit_item' => __('Edit shoot'), 'new_item' => __('New shoot'), 'view_item' => __('View shoot'), 'search_items' => __('Search shoots'), 'not_found' => __('No shoots found'), 'not_found_in_trash' => __('No shoots found in trash'), 'parent_item_colon' => '' );


$args = array( 'labels' => $labels, 'public' => true, 'publicly_queryable' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => true, 'capability_type' => 'post', 'hierarchical' => false, 'menu_position' => null, 'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments'), 'has_archive' => 'shoots' );

#CREATING CUSTOM TAXONOMIES


// Add taxonomies for Shootsadd_action( 'init', 'adley_create_taxonomies', 0 );

function adley_create_taxonomies() {

$labels = array( … stuff …);

register_taxonomy('topics','shoot',array( … stuff ) );}


$labels = array('name' => _x( 'Topics', 'taxonomy general name' ),'singular_name' => _x( 'Topic', 'taxonomy singular name' ),'search_items' => __( 'Search by topic' ),'all_items' => __( 'All topics' ),'most_used_items' => null,'parent_item' => null,'parent_item_colon' => null,'edit_item' => __( 'Change topic' ), 'update_item' => __( 'Update topic' ),'add_new_item' => __( 'Add new topic' ),'new_item_name' => __( 'New topic' ),'menu_name' => __( 'Topics' ),);


register_taxonomy('topics','shoot',array('hierarchical' => true,'labels' => $labels,'show_ui' => true,'query_var' => true,'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'topics' )));

?CUSTOM POST TYPE ICONS

http://randyjensenonline.com/thoughts/wordpress-custom-post-type-fugue-icons/

#CUSTOM POST TYPE ICONS

// Adds custom icon to the Shoots tabadd_action( 'admin_head', 'cpt_icons' );function cpt_icons() { ?> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> #menu-posts-shoot .wp-menu-image { background: url(<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/images/photo-album.png) no-repeat 6px – 17px !important; } #menu-posts-shoot:hover .wp-menu-image, #menu-posts-shoot.wp-has-current-submenu .wp-menu-image { background-position:6px 7px!important; } </style><?php }

?CUSTOM POST TYPE PAGES

For single pages:single-postType.php

For taxonomy pages:taxonomy.php

For index page(s) (new in 3.1):archive-postType.php


$args = array( 'labels' => $labels, 'public' => true, 'publicly_queryable' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => true, 'capability_type' => 'post', 'hierarchical' => false, 'menu_position' => null, 'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments'), 'has_archive' => 'shoots' );

single-soknad.php archive-soknad.php taxonomy.php

#“FUN” WITH QUERIES


Get the object term (taxonomy value)

<?php

$terms = wp_get_object_terms(

$post->ID,

'soknadsstatus',

'fields=names‘

);

$status = implode(', ', $terms);

?>

Taxonomy slug

all, ids, names or all_with_object_id


Create list if term items (categories)

<?php

$kommuneterm = get_terms('kommune', 'orderby=name‘); ?>

<ul><?php foreach ($kommuneterm as $sted) { ?>

<li><a href=“<?php echo get_term_link( $sted->slug, 'kommune‘ );?>"><?php echo $sted->name; ?> (<?php echo $sted->count; ?>)</a></li><?php } ?></ul>

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Morten Rand-HendriksenCreative Director, Pink & Yellow Media

www.designisphilosophy.com

@mor10

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