custom post types
Custom post types in WordPress allow you to create and format content specific to your website such as classified ads, job listings and much more.
Custom Post Types with Types Toolset
This series will walk you through CPT creation, front-end views and front-end CRED forms as well as access and permissions.
1) Installation and Setup
How to download, activate and setup the Types Toolset plugin suite.
2) Creating Custom Post Types
How to create custom post types and custom fields with Toolset.
3) Views for Front-end Display
How to create views to display your custom post types on the front-end.
4) Content Templates
How to create content templates to control how the single-view of your post types look.
5) CRED & Front-end Forms
How to create front-end forms available to users to they can submit and manage content on your site.
6) Views Filter & Search
How to add filters and search functionality to your front-end Views.
7) Google Maps Integration
Integrating Google Maps with your front-end Views and content templates.
8) User Content Management
How to setup “My Content” interfaces for users so they can manage the content they’ve submitted.
9) Access & Permissions
How to use the Access Plugin to manage permissions and access to content and submissions.
Creating Custom Post Types in WordPress.
Custom post types in WordPress are what allow us to move past the default structured content and turn our WordPress site into something much more. Classifieds, job sites, intranets, recipes, anything which has a custom data structure can be built within your WordPress site and be managed just like any sort of content. You can even allow users to submit new content to your site.
This can be done with a few different plugins, but we recommend Toolset, which is a suite of tools that all have to do with creating and managing custom post types on your site. This is what’s included:
- Types – The plugin which allows you to create custom post types and custom fields, as well as child custom post types.
- Views – The plugin which allows you to setup front-end displays to display your content (think, similar to your “Blog” page, but much more flexible), as well as setup content templates so you can determine how to display your single-page view of your content (think, full blog article). It can also integrate with Google Maps, WooCommerce and much more.
- CRED – This plugin allows you to create front-end forms for users to create, manage, edit and delete content on your site, based on what permissions you give them. Using Views and Cred you can create user dashboards on your site where they can manage and submit new content, however you want it to be setup.
- Access – The plugin to create custom user roles and setup permissions for who should be able to do what on your site.
You can read more about the Toolset plugin suite on their website by clicking the button below.
If you decide to use the plugin suite, click the button below to move to the next tutorial.
Get help and support by joining us on Slack!
LattePress offers free WordPress support via our Slack channel. Join us today and chat with the community or ask questions to our WordPress experts both publicly or privately via direct message.
Our team will do our best to help support you, answer questions, offer guidance or suggestions based on your needs. We're looking forward to chatting with you!
Need help? Get a free consultation.
If you have any questions at all and aren't sure which direction to take, click the button below to schedule a free consultation. Learn if what you need can be done on your own with our tutorials or if it will require custom development.