WordPress is a constantly maturing platform. Just over a year ago I wrote a tutorial about creating custom post types for events- but huge improvements around advanced meta data queries made my previous approach seem hackish. This post is a much revised update with code examples.
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I recently released a plugin on WordPress.org that registers a portfolio post type, related taxonomies, and adds an image when you’re viewing the items in the dashboard. It clocks in at a neat 202 lines of code, most of that being labels.

I’ve held onto to the plugin for a while in GitHub since it’s an easy thing for any developer to build out- but I’ve recently been thinking that a standard plugin in the repository might be beneficial as it could make more themes more portable. (Especially for users of my Portfolio Press theme)

And since I expect people to modify this a bit as well, I wanted walk through of the code.
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