WordPress Intermediate: Custom Posts or Taxonomies

Name: WordPress Intermediate: Custom Posts or Taxonomies
Author: Chrissy Rey

Add new types of content to your WordPress website with custom post types and taxonomies

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Hello, my name is Chrissy Ray, and in these lessons, you will learn about custom post types and taxonomies. By default, WordPress has two post types. It's got your posts and it's got your pages. As you already know, posts are used for things like blog posts or any content that needs to be ordered by date, and then pages are going to be more static content like you're about page, contact page, and things like that. You also have a couple of built-in taxonomies, and those are going to be associated with the posts post type, and they are categories and tags. If we look at the categories taxonomy, you can see that that is a hierarchical taxonomy, which means that you can have parent and children, and you also have the tags taxonomy, which is not hierarchical. Now, if you take a look over here on my menu, you might notice that I have a custom post type that I've added, and that custom post type is recipes. So if I click on the recipes menu, that's going to show me all of the recipes that I currently have, and these recipes are going to be treated just like other post types within this WordPress website, except that the post type is going to be recipes. And you can see right now, I've got two recipes. I've got chocolate cake and chocolate soup, which sounds delicious, but for the chocolate cake, if I click on edit for that, you can see that this has a title, just like it would for a post or a page. I've got some content, and you can see here that I can add any blocks that I want. So if I wanted to add additional blocks here, you can see I can add any blocks, I can add any patterns. So there's no limitations to what I can add to this post type. Now, another thing that we've got here, if we look at the recipe tab on the right side, is the ability to add a featured image. So this particular post type does have that capability. So I can add featured images to my recipes. And you can also see that it's got a URL, and the URL is going to be the URL of my website slash recipe, which is going to be the post type slash, and then the slug, which for this one is going to be chocolate cake. And otherwise, it looks a lot like a page or a post. So any of the capabilities that I could add to a page or a post, I can add to this custom post type. I'm going to click on update, because I also want to show you, if I go back to my menu, I also have a custom taxonomy called cuisines. And we can see that this is a hierarchical taxonomy, so I can add parent and children terms. And you can see right now, I've got two terms, I've got dessert and dinner. And if I go into my recipes, I can go into, for example, chocolate soup, and I can specify that it is a dessert or a dinner, and then I can even add a new cuisine. So I could add entree. I know these aren't cuisines, I'm just adding them that way. And then I can click on update, and that's going to update that post. So as you can see, you can add custom post types and taxonomies to handle really just about any type of content in your WordPress website. So if you wanted to add recipes, or you wanted to add resources, or a business directory, or anything like that, you can do it. Thanks for watching, and stay tuned for the next lesson where I'll show you how to add your own custom post types and taxonomies using a WordPress plugin.

Intermediate Provider : Chrissy Rey 4 Lessons · 18m in English

Course Description

WordPress has limited built-in post types, including Post and Page. While those are sufficient for many websites, some websites need additional types of content to handle things like business directories, resource libraries, and recipe databases. That’s where custom post types come in. You can create custom post types to handle any content types that aren’t built-in to WordPress. After you create a custom post type, you can link the built-in Categories and Tags taxonomies to filter the content, or you can create custom taxonomies to add even more filtering capabilities.

In this module on Custom Post Types and Taxonomies, you will learn how to create new types of content for your WordPress website. You’ll explore the uses of custom post types and taxonomies, and how to use a plugin to create them. Finally, you will learn how to add custom post types and taxonomies to a WordPress theme.

What You'll Learn

Create custom post types and taxonomies using a plugin
Add custom post types and taxonomies to a WordPress theme
Explore the uses of custom post types and taxonomies for handling content not built into WordPress
Link the built-in Categories and Tags taxonomies to filter custom content
Build custom taxonomies to add more filtering capabilities to your content

Key Takeaways

WordPress includes limited built-in post types, namely Post and Page, which suffice for many but not all websites.
Custom post types let you handle content types that aren't built into WordPress, such as business directories, resource libraries, and recipe databases.
After creating a custom post type, you can link the built-in Categories and Tags taxonomies to filter the content, or create custom taxonomies for more filtering capabilities.
This module covers creating custom post types and taxonomies with a plugin and adding them to a WordPress theme.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will learn how to create new types of content for your WordPress website, explore the uses of custom post types and taxonomies, use a plugin to create them, and add custom post types and taxonomies to a WordPress theme.

Why would I need custom post types?

While the built-in Post and Page types are sufficient for many websites, some sites need additional content types to handle things like business directories, resource libraries, and recipe databases. Custom post types let you create any content types that aren't built into WordPress.

How are custom post types and taxonomies created in this module?

The module shows how to create custom post types and taxonomies using a plugin, and also how to create them in the theme.

Can I filter custom content once it's created?

Yes. After creating a custom post type, you can link the built-in Categories and Tags taxonomies to filter the content, or create custom taxonomies to add even more filtering capabilities.

What skills does this course cover?

The course covers Category Development, Custom Post Types, Custom Tag, WordPress Admin, WordPress, and the WordPress REST API.