WordPress: Custom Post Types and Taxonomies

Course details

WordPress is a powerful content management system—but it shines with customization. For example, there are seven default post types, organized using built-in taxonomies like categories and tags. But you can display different types of content according to your own rules by creating custom post types and taxonomies. Best of all, you can customize these elements without a lot of code. In this course, Joe Casabona shows how to create new post types and taxonomies, create a theme-agnostic plugin to house them, and build templates that display the custom post types in effective ways. Plus, learn how to move your custom post types and taxonomies to existing themes to leverage them in current sites.

Learning objectives
Defining custom post types and taxonomies
Creating custom post types without code
Displaying new post types on the front end
Building custom taxonomies without code
Importing and exporting taxonomy data
Creating custom post type templates
Moving custom post types to your theme

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Create better content
02 - What you should know
03 - Demo project overview

1. What Are Custom Post Types and Taxonomies

04 - What are custom post types
05 - What are custom taxonomies
06 - Where does the code belong

2. Creating Custom Post Types without Code

07 - The no-code solution
08 - Creating custom post types
09 - Creating custom post type labels
10 - Custom post type capability settings
11 - Displaying your post type on the front end

3. Creating Custom Taxonomies without Code

12 - Creating custom taxonomies
13 - Creating custom taxonomy labels
14 - Customizing the taxonomies' settings
15 - Importing and exporting your data

4. Coding Your Own Custom Post Types

16 - Creating your plugin
17 - Building a basic custom post type
18 - Customizing your post type labels
19 - Customizing your post type settings
20 - Activating the REST API on your post type
21 - Creating a post with your post type
22 - Challenge - Create an events post type
23 - Solution - Create an events post type
24 - Extending post types with custom fields

5. Coding Your Own Custom Taxonomies

25 - Building a basic custom taxonomy
26 - Creating an advanced custom taxonomy
27 - Activating the REST API for your taxonomy
28 - Adding taxonomy terms to your post types
29 - Challenge - Make location taxonomy
30 - Solution - Make location taxonomy

6. Creating Custom Post Type Templates

31 - The WordPress template hierarchy
32 - Setting up your child theme
33 - Creating a single custom post template
34 - Modifying the single template header
35 - Creating a custom post archive template
36 - Adding a custom taxonomy to a template
37 - Creating a custom taxonomy template

7. Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in Other Templates

38 - Custom post types on the front page
39 - Organizing your child theme
40 - Creating a custom loop for post types
41 - Displaying the custom loop
42 - Styling your custom loop

8. Moving Your Post Types to Your Theme

43 - Warning - Custom post types in themes
44 - Adding custom post types to themes
45 - Automatically flushing rewrite riles

Conclusion

46 - Next steps