Follow this tutorial for creating the custom post type.
Here is the working code as per your requirement:
function create_post_type_event() {
//Create custom post type for event
$labels = array(
'name' => _x('Event', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('Event', 'post type singular name'),
'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'event'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add New Event'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit Event'),
'new_item' => __('New Event'),
'all_items' => __('All Events'),
'view_item' => __('View Event'),
'search_items' => __('Search Event'),
'not_found' => __('No event found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No event found in Trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => '',
'menu_name' => __('Event')
);
$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_in_menu' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => TRUE,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'has_archive' => true,
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => 5,
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'excerpt', 'comments', 'custom-fields' )
);
register_post_type('event',$args);
flush_rewrite_rules(); // Flush the rewrite rules and re-create the above for custom post types
}
add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type_event' );
After creating this cpt
you can create a single-event.php
file in your active theme’s directory and it should work with no trouble.