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Creating a Custom Post Type in WordPress 3.0

cointilt — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:27:04 +0000

A really great new feature in WordPress is the ability to create custom post types. This allows you to write very little code, and create entire sections on your site using built in WordPress features and UI. Here is a really really basic overview on how to get started creating a custom post type.

All of the code below can be put inside your functions.php page in your theme folder.

It all starts with the function register_post_type:

register_post_type ( $post_type, $options );

The $post_type is the name of the custom post type you want to associate it as. For example we will create a custom post type called Events like the below code:


$options = array
(
    'label' => 'Events',
    'singular_label' => 'Event',
    'public' => TRUE,
    'show_ui' => TRUE,
    'capability_type' => 'post',
    'hierarchical' => TRUE,
    'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'events' ),
    'query_var' => TRUE,
    'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'author' )
);

register_post_type ( 'events', $options );

The description and other options can be found on the register_post_type function page at WordPress’ website.

Now you will have a custom post type in the backend of your WordPress theme.

Remove WordPress Version From Head Tag

cointilt — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:55:23 +0000

Insert this into the functions.php page located in your theme file:

remove_action ( 'wp_head', 'wp_generator' )

It will auto remove the tag that says:

WordPress

cointilt — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:31:36 +0000

The past week has been so crazy with work. We have so many projects going on at once and many deadlines around the same time of each other. The good thing about this is it has gotten me to learn way more about WordPress in a shorter time.

I have learned so much about WordPress 3.0 that I have started to created a framework for creating new themes easily.

The next couple tutorials I post will be about creating widgets, plugins, admin sections and other sweet things for WordPress.