1. Custom Post
Types
Mark Jaquith
@markjaquith
coveredwebservices.com

2. What they
are not.

3. Examples
• Employees
• Products
• Locations
• Movies
• Anything that is a “thing” that
isn’t a “post.”

4. WP Uses CPT
• Posts
• Pages
• Revisions
• Attachments
• Menu Items (new for
WordPress 3.0)

5. Custom Post
Types have
been available
since 2005

9. Plugin: Custom Post Type UI

18. Next: build the
[employee] shortcode

25. http://gist.github.com/570774

26. You can use
custom post types
as a data store

27. Custom post types
can be hierarchical,
like pages

28. Custom post types
aren’t done yet

29. More Resources
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Post_Types
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/
register_post_type
• http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-
post-types-in-wordpress

30. Thanks!
@markjaquith
coveredwebservices.com