custom wordpress content options
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Presentation from WordPress Melbourne's WordChicks Meetup Thursday 7th November 2013 at York Butter FactoryTRANSCRIPT
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WordPress Custom ContentDee Teal - The Web Princess
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Posts
TimelyDynamic
TaxonomiesFormats
Syndication
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Pages
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HierarchicalTemplated
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Built inMenusPrivacy
SchedulingEditorsMedia
Posts AND Pages
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Attachment
Revision
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The Post Table
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Custom Post Types
ChronologicalTaxonomiesTemplates
Syndication
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Formats
AsideGallery
LinkImageQuoteStatusVideoAudioChat
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• How to Add Theme Support for Post Formats (to your functions.php file)add_theme_support( 'post-‐formats', array( 'aside', 'gallery', 'link', quote, status, video, audio, chat, image ) );
Check out Lisa Sabin Wilson’s WordPress 3.1 Post Formats Reference
post for howways to include them in your theme
http://lisasabin-wilson.com/wordpress-3-1-post-formats-reference/
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• Don’t... just use Posts/Categories
• Build them into your Theme (generally by putting the code into functions.php)http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Post_Types
• Use a pre-built Plugin to Create them... http://wordpress.org/plugins/cpt-onomies/http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/http://masterpressplugin.com/ (premium)
• Create your own plugin
Options for creating Custom Post Types
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• Kristarella’s Posts v Pages Infographichttp://www.kristarella.com/2013/09/wordpress-posts-vs-pages/
• Post Formats vs. Custom Post Typeshttp://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/post-formats-vs-custom-post-types/
• Post Formats Referencehttp://lisasabin-wilson.com/wordpress-3-1-post-formats-reference/
• Codexhttp://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats - http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Post_Types
• Custom Posts Typeshttp://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress (awesome reference)http://blog.matthill.co/2013/custom-post-types-wordpress-themes-best-practice/
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