How to Add Custom Post Type Icons
How to add a custom post type icon to your WordPress theme, including downloads to use the portfolio icon and directions for styling the admin screen. Continue reading
Tag Archives: custom post types
Post Type Presentation for WordCamp
My presentation from WordCamp Portland! I recorded this the night before, so we’ll see how it lines up- but here’s the screencast and all the links from my talk on Custom Post Types. Continue reading
How to Make an Events Custom Post Type
A tutorial showing step by step instructions on how to set up a basic custom post type for events. Continue reading
How to Add a Metabox to a Custom Post Type
A tutorial explaining how to build custom meta boxes to be used with different post types. Continue reading
Adding Columns to the WP Edit Pages
A couple weeks ago I released a Portfolio Theme that uses custom post types. The featured image is a key component of the post type, I wanted a way to display it from the post dashboard- along with the title, taxonomy, author, comments, and post date. Continue reading
Custom Post Type Resources
The ability to create custom post types was a great feature added in WordPress 2.9 and then expanded in 3.0. It allows us to add and label completely different types of content than the standard “Pages” and “Posts” we’re all used to. To get started with this, here’s my recommended list of links and resources. Continue reading