This document discusses different content types in WordPress including post types, taxonomies, media, comments, and users. It provides details on features of core post types as well as popular plugins for extending functionality like Advanced Custom Fields, Pods, and Types. Common use cases and features of these plugins are outlined.

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as shared by Scott Kingsley Clark
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Content Types be crazy, yo!
- Post Types
- Taxonomies
- Media
- Comments
- Users
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Post Types, yum!
The general purpose extendable content type
- Posts - Formats
- Pages - Status (workflow)
- Media - Archives
- Menus (internal) - Editor
- Revisions (internal) - Custom Fields
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Post Types, yum!
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#Taxonomies
Categorization and tagging, simple relationships
- Categories - Relationships
- Tags - Archives
- No Custom Fields :(
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Media
Preface: WP 3.5 will pop your tires and salt your
wounds
- Featured Images
- Embed in Content
- Reference External
- Image Sizes
- Cropping
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Comments keep things @social
- Comment Types (internal)
- Custom Fields
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Users gotta use
- Login - Roles and
- Register Capabilities
- Lost Password - Custom Fields
- Profiles - Gravatar Integration
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20k+ plugins, 330m+ downloads
Does WordPress do that? It can.
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Post Types: Meta Group Overload!
Tabify Edit Screen
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Comments: Bringing #social together
To be fair.. there are many plugins! Here are a few
(in no particular order):
- Social
- Jetpack Comments
- Livefyre
- Disqus
- IntenseDebate
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Users: Roles and Capabilities
Members
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Custom Fields
- Advanced Custom Fields
- Pods 2.0
- Types
Many choices, Ready to get in deep?
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Advanced Custom Fields
- Add Custom Fields to:
- Post Types
- Taxonomies (wp_options)
- Media
- Users
- Nice UI
- Field Types (including loop premium field $)
- Custom Theming Functions
- Centered around Groups of Fields, not Content Types
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Themes
Storage Settings
Content
Fields UI
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Pods 2.0
- Create Content Types:
- Custom Post Types
- Custom Taxonomies
- Custom Content Types (their own standalone tables)
- Extend Content Types:
- Post Types (including any existing CPT)
- Taxonomies (including any existing CT)
- Media
- Users
- Comments
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Pods 2.0: Optional Table Storage
- Meta storage by default
- Post Types
wp_posts
- Media
wp_postmeta
- Users
- Comments
- Table storage
- Custom Content Types wp_pods_t_podname
- Taxonomies
- Can be enabled for any meta-based types
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Pods 2.0: Field Types
- Text - Relationships
- Paragraph Text - Custom Defined List
(WYSWIG optional) - Post Types
- Date and/or Time - Taxonomies
- Users
- Number / Currency
- Comments
- Checkbox - Pods
- File Upload / Attach - Custom Field Types
(WP native interface) - Pre/Post action,
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Pods 2.0: Theming
- Simple Template - Public Forms
Engine with - Advanced Theming
{@field_name} Functions
$names = pod->field(‘parent.child.tertiary.name’)
syntax
- WP native function
- Shortcodes (List,
integrations for each
Detail, Single Field)
WP object
- Widgets (List, Detail,
(*_*_meta)
Single Field)
- Advanced
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Pods 2.0: API and more
- Use the API to add/ - Optional Components
edit/delete Pods, - Gravity Forms
Fields, Meta - Roles and Caps
Groups, Pod Items, - Markdown Syntax
and other objects
- Multiple Developer
Project
- WP native helper
methods available
- Sponsored by
Automattic, RD2,
within API
and MarkNet Group
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Looking ahead into Pods 2.1
- Support for the WP VIP environment
- Loop fields
- Field Groups (API is already in 2.0)
- Components
- Custom Image Sizes
- Custom Post Statuses
- Custom Shortcodes
- XML-RPC API integration
and Network-wide Mode available by Pods 2.2
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Keep it simple, Users will enjoy, Code is Poetry
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