Comments on: Create your first WordPress Custom Post Type

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:57:00 +0000

Hopefully someone is still reading this… I’ve used this fairly standard method above to make custom post types and everything seemed to be working fine, except… I just realized when I try to edit a post scheduled for the future it doesn’t retain the custom field edits. Basically I can input data but once it’s in I can’t edit it. A bit of a problem. Any ideas??

By: beth

beth — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:56:00 +0000

I need help getting the data to show, cannot figure out how to. I need to pull the post links to populate a list and the list should then link me to each single page per post.

I can’t get it to work… but I have no clue how either. Please help email me at info at cddaruba.com thanks!

By: Today in Web

Today in Web — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:12:00 +0000

One way to add the year above the post for example. This will make sure the field is not empty and will post the contents if it is not.

0){
{
echo ‘Completed:’;
$custom["year_completed"][0];
}
the_content(); ?>

By: Saintdo

Saintdo — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:57:00 +0000

Thanks so much. You helped me :D

By: BankReview.com.br

BankReview.com.br — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:09:00 +0000

Brilliant. Much more detailed than the official documentation on the CODEX. Followed this through while making modifications to get to my specific entity I needed and work out superbly.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:00:00 +0000

very good point, you get an error otherwise that says “Cheatin’ huh”

By: Lewis Litanzios

Lewis Litanzios — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:40:00 +0000

Would be helpful addition if a ‘Step 5′ covered querying for these custom posts, so we could output them in our page templates.

Cheers,

By: Lewis Litanzios

Lewis Litanzios — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:30:00 +0000

No compatibility with standard widgets (i.e. ‘Categories’/'Recent Posts’ etc.)

Anyone know where to fork these scripts to plug that hole?

Cheers,

By: Saad Ibrahim

Saad Ibrahim — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:18:00 +0000

just remove custom fields from supports parameter when creating a new post type

By: Bloggers Templates

Bloggers Templates — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:40:00 +0000

Whoa…Nice Tutorial.

By: Damon

Damon — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:24:00 +0000

@Alex, thanks as this helped me fix why it wasn't working for me, and I still have a few pieces of hair left :-/ Make sure you register taxonomy as:

register_taxonomy("skills", array("portfolio"), array("hierarchical" => true, "label" => "Skills", "singular_label" => "Skill", "rewrite" => true));

By: Fox Hats

Fox Hats — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:11:00 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,

By: Timo Burmeister

Timo Burmeister — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:03:00 +0000

Great tutorial! I’ve read a lot about custom posts, but yours really works! ;)

thanks!

By: Nauris Pukis

Nauris Pukis — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:14:00 +0000

Thank you so much for this awesome article. I was googling about the Custom post types and stumbled on this. Will have much more stuff to dig into :)

By: Jamesssy

Jamesssy — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:47:00 +0000

Great article. Rounded up every thing perfectly. Only problem is I want to redo previous sites using this!

By: Henri

Henri — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:38:00 +0000

What about a Company listing system. if i have about 1000-3000 companies and everyone have about 30 metaboxes. Is metaboxes the right way to store data in WP or should i make a own table to the company listing.

The postmeta table seems to be hard to maintane. I think with that much data it should have own table? Is there any way in WP to maintaine a DB table like custom posts meta information?

By: Henri Idstrom

Henri Idstrom — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:55:00 +0000

Very nice post. Just one thing

register_taxonomy(“Skills” TO >
register_taxonomy(“skills”

WP3 Right?

By: Greg Turner

Greg Turner — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:19:00 +0000

Yes, all that is really obvious. My question has to do with ordering a list by a custom data field within a custom post type, not a custom field. Although I would expect on the back end the implementation is the same.

By: Scott Elkin

Scott Elkin — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:05:00 +0000

If you do a custom field, I believe it is stored as text. So you will need to make sure that you store the date so that it can be sorted like YEARMONTHDAY (20110317).

Then read this: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-sort-posts-by-a-custom-field

By: Greg Turner

Greg Turner — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:37:00 +0000

Thank you very much for this. It helped me really get the hang of what post types are all about. I have an application where I think using custom post types will work nicely. In this application I will want to add a custom data field for a date. Either one field, or three for month,day, and year. I am wondering in my loop will I be able to do an orderby my custom data type. Anyone know the answer? Thanks again.

By: Scott Elkin

Scott Elkin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:36:00 +0000

Do you know of a good solution to show a list of custom post type / category?

A common way to view a posts withing a category would be /category/category-name/.

And now with WordPress 3.1, you can list all custom types post by going to /custom-post-type-name/.

But how do I view /custom-post-type-name/category-name/?

The only way I know of is to create a page and template, which is a bit hacky.

By: Devinderkumar

Devinderkumar — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:25:00 +0000

will you please tell me how i apply validation on the field of custom post type, i make that one and now facing problem of applying validation on title, description and custom fields.

By: Kaizer1v

Kaizer1v — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:49:00 +0000

How do you display these custom post types that you just created?

By: Alex Duncan

Alex Duncan — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:32:00 +0000

Be careful when creating a custom taxonomy. For safety you should not include capitals in the taxonomy slug. The recent update to WP 3.1 shows errors when you try to edit taxonomies in the back end if their slug contains a capital letter. This is predictably an incredibly difficult problem to undo.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:02:00 +0000

What do you exactly mean? I believe that’s a normal behavior as meta boxes = custom fields? :)

By: James Gw Turpin

James Gw Turpin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:18:00 +0000

Great walk-through!

I am using the the_meta() function to display the custom fields on the page. but issue is that the custom field keys are showing up like custom_key_name instead of Custom Key Name.

Is there anything that I can do to fix this?

My code:

Outputting:

custom_field_name: Value I Typed In

By: Anton Savkin

Anton Savkin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:39:00 +0000

Thank you
The best I Have Found

By: Tom Kenkel

Tom Kenkel — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:20:00 +0000

Add an underscore before the values to hide them from custom field values.

By: Shreedhar

Shreedhar — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:31:00 +0000

Thanks, its really a headstart for my new work

By: Christopher Dosin

Christopher Dosin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:06:00 +0000

awesome !
thanks for this kick ass tutorial mate!