WordPress: Custom Post Types and Taxonomies

Course details

WordPress is a powerful content management system—but it shines with customization. For example, there are seven default post types, organized using built-in taxonomies like categories and tags. But you can display different types of content according to your own rules by creating custom post types and taxonomies. Best of all, you can customize these elements without a lot of code. In this course, Joe Casabona shows how to create new post types and taxonomies, create a theme-agnostic plugin to house them, and build templates that display the custom post types in effective ways. Plus, learn how to move your custom post types and taxonomies to existing themes to leverage them in current sites.

Learning objectives
Defining custom post types and taxonomies
Creating custom post types without code
Displaying new post types on the front end
Building custom taxonomies without code
Importing and exporting taxonomy data
Creating custom post type templates
Moving custom post types to your theme

Concepts

Introduction

Create better content
What you should know
Demo project overview

What Are Custom Post Types and Taxonomies

What are custom post types
What are custom taxonomies
Where does the code belong

Creating Custom Post Types without Code

The no-code solution
Creating custom post types
Creating custom post type labels
Custom post type capability settings
Displaying your post type on the front end

Creating Custom Taxonomies without Code

Creating custom taxonomies
Creating custom taxonomy labels
Customizing the taxonomies' settings
Importing and exporting your data

Coding Your Own Custom Post Types

Creating your plugin
Building a basic custom post type
Customizing your post type labels
Customizing your post type settings
Activating the REST API on your post type
Creating a post with your post type
Challenge - Create an events post type
Solution - Create an events post type
Extending post types with custom fields

Coding Your Own Custom Taxonomies

Building a basic custom taxonomy
Creating an advanced custom taxonomy
Activating the REST API for your taxonomy
Adding taxonomy terms to your post types
Challenge - Make location taxonomy
Solution - Make location taxonomy

Creating Custom Post Type Templates

The WordPress template hierarchy
Setting up your child theme
Creating a single custom post template
Modifying the single template header
Creating a custom post archive template
Adding a custom taxonomy to a template
Creating a custom taxonomy template

Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in Other Templates

Custom post types on the front page
Organizing your child theme
Creating a custom loop for post types
Displaying the custom loop
Styling your custom loop

Moving Your Post Types to Your Theme

Warning - Custom post types in themes
Adding custom post types to themes
Automatically flushing rewrite riles

Conclusion

Next steps