Comments on: WordPress 3.0 and Custom Post Types

By: Angelo Mandato

Angelo Mandato — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:19:07 +0000

In reference to: So all of you thinking of a custom “Podcast” post type, you’re in for a disappointment The soon to be released PowerPress 3.0 will allow you to associate a PowerPress Podcast Channel to a Custom Post Type. It is a very powerful feature for anyone wanting to podcast with custom post types.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:21:23 +0000

I view CPTs as just the solution for incorporating categories into pages…Maybe I’m simplifying things.

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By: MGunner

MGunner — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:06:19 +0000

I am wondering if I can do a particularly “custom” thing with custom post types. I have a table (separate from the wp tables) with rows of clients. Of course (and I think this is key here) that this table has incrementing id’s.

I want to turn this table into a custom post type so that essentially each client becomes a post.

I am wondering if I can tell the custom post type during its initialization, to use this table and somehow map all the fields to .. meta fields I suppose in the custom post type.

Does this make sense?
Once this is done a client cant be granted privileges to edit his/her own “post” and thus the custom fields in the post map to the table fields.

Easy/Hard/Imposs ?

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Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:17:34 +0000

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By: Otto

Otto — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:26:34 +0000

Not really following you on that one. It’s not a data type. It’s a post, but not a capital-P “Post”.

Big-P-Post implies that it shows up in the blog. Big-P-Post implies that it obeys the post-permalink structure. These are not the case, in the same way that a Page is a post-type but has its own rules with regard to these sort of things.

I was only pointing out that it’s important to keep in mind the difference. Custom Post Types are *custom* and don’t obey the normal Post rules, just like Pages and Attachments don’t either.

By: adgravator

adgravator — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:36:43 +0000

seems like a custom post type in name only. custom post types (content type?) one expects to see custom data types, aka varchar, int, float,. moreover attributes: indexed, notnull, default value, blah blah
something offered by a Data Definition Language.

and the few plugins ive seen on custom post types, appear to support your argument that a trad post can accomplish.

check out the plug in and vid: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
this custom post plugin relies on another plugin to restrict (not define!) the content. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-template/screenshots/

wordpress is great, but this is where it might unravel.
post should really have been the first content(?) type from the getgo.

By: Rude Retro

Rude Retro — Mon, 23 May 2011 07:11:41 +0000

Thanks. Great post and I will not be using custom post types anytime soon as I misunderstood them completely.

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