When you register your CPT, you need to manually add support for revisions. Only title and editor are set as defaults. Check out the codex. So if you need to enable revisions, you need to add it like this ‘supports’ => array( ‘title’, ‘editor’, ‘revisions’ ), in your $args = array() when registering your CPT. … Read more
You should be skeptical of anyone who says that there is a single “right” way. The right way depends on the situation. Using the CPT infrastructure has a number of notable benefits: You get the Dashboard UI for free You automatically take advantage of WP’s caching, including any persistent cache plugins that the installation may … Read more
First, register your taxonomy and set the slug argument of rewrite to shows: register_taxonomy( ‘show_category’, ‘show’, array( ‘rewrite’ => array( ‘slug’ => ‘shows’, ‘with_front’ => false ), // your other args… ) ); Next, register your post type and set the slug to shows/%show_category%, and set has_archive argument to shows: register_post_type( ‘show’, array( ‘rewrite’ => … Read more
From WordPress version 4.7 you can now assign custom page templates to other post types along with page. To achieve this in addition to the Template Name file header, the post types supported by a template can be specified using Template Post Type: as following. <?php /* Template Name: Full-width page layout Template Post Type: … Read more
As of WordPress 4.5 there is function to do that, unregister_post_type. Example:- function delete_post_type(){ unregister_post_type( ‘blocks’ ); } add_action(‘init’,’delete_post_type’);
Here is what I’ve tried and got a solution with 3 steps. Let’s say your custom post type is “products“ 1 . Add Function Code here you can specify the archive-search.php function template_chooser($template) { global $wp_query; $post_type = get_query_var(‘post_type’); if( $wp_query->is_search && $post_type == ‘products’ ) { return locate_template(‘archive-search.php’); // redirect to archive-search.php } return … Read more
As you can probably imagine by the lack of answers provided, the solution is not exactly trivial. What I’ve done is create a somewhat self-contained example that assumes a custom post type of “movie” and custom field key of “Genre“. Disclaimer: this works with WP3.0 but I can’t be sure it will work with earlier … Read more
I think I’ve got it! After looking at couple of functions in the taxonomy.php file in WordPress I have found the function get_object_taxonomies(); which did the trick 🙂
After combining a bunch of pieces of other answers I got it working! So here’s the solution for those of you who are struggling with this too: This post and this one helped me out some, so thanks to those guys. Note, all this code, plus your initial custom post type and taxonomy registration code … Read more
I did some more testing with this, and honestly can’t find a reason it wouldn’t work (unless the code above is just a snippet and the real code fits on my examples below). I did, however, discover a couple of things that might lead you in the right direction. 1) By itself, this meta query … Read more