The easiest way to create a custom post type in WordPress is by using a plugin. This method is recommended for beginner because it is safe and easy.
For example :
Custom Post Type UI
The problem with using a plugin is that your custom post types will disappear when the plugin is deactivated.
you can manually create your custom post type by adding the required code in your theme’s functions.php file.
// Our custom post type function
function create_posttype() {
register_post_type( 'events',
// CPT Options
array(
'labels' => array(
'name' => __( 'Event' ),
'singular_name' => __( 'Event' )
),
'public' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'events'),
)
);
}
// Hooking up our function to theme setup
add_action( 'init', 'create_posttype' );
It registers a post type ‘events’ with an array of arguments. These arguments are the options of custom post type. This array has two parts, the first part is labels, which itself is an array. The second part contains other arguments like public visibility, has archive, and slug.
/*
* Creating a function to create Custom post type
*/
function custom_post_type() {
// Set UI labels for Custom Post Type
$labels = array(
'name' => _x( 'Events', 'Post Type General Name', 'twentythirteen' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Event', 'Post Type Singular Name', 'twentythirteen' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Events', 'twentythirteen' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Event', 'twentythirteen' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Events', 'twentythirteen' ),
'view_item' => __( 'View Event', 'twentythirteen' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Event', 'twentythirteen' ),
'add_new' => __( 'Add New', 'twentythirteen' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Event', 'twentythirteen' ),
'update_item' => __( 'Update Event', 'twentythirteen' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Event', 'twentythirteen' ),
'not_found' => __( 'Not Found', 'twentythirteen' ),
'not_found_in_trash' => __( 'Not found in Trash', 'twentythirteen' ),
);
// Set other options for Custom Post Type
$args = array(
'label' => __( 'events', 'twentythirteen' ),
'description' => __( 'Event news and reviews', 'twentythirteen' ),
'labels' => $labels,
// Features this CPT supports in Post Editor
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'comments', 'revisions', 'custom-fields', ),
// You can associate this CPT with a taxonomy or custom taxonomy.
'taxonomies' => array( 'types' ),
/* A hierarchical CPT is like Pages and can have
* Parent and child items. A non-hierarchical CPT
* is like Posts.
*/
'hierarchical' => false,
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_in_menu' => true,
'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
'show_in_admin_bar' => true,
'menu_position' => 5,
'can_export' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'exclude_from_search' => false,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'capability_type' => 'page',
);
// Registering your Custom Post Type
register_post_type( 'events', $args );
}
/* Hook into the 'init' action so that the function
* Containing our post type registration is not
* unnecessarily executed.
*/
add_action( 'init', 'custom_post_type', 0 );