create custom post type wordpress code example

Example 1: get name custom post type wordpress

$pt = get_post_type_object( 'books' );

// These two usually contain the post type name in plural. 
// They may differ though.
echo $pt->label;
echo $pt->labels->name;

// This one holds the post type name in singular.
echo $pt->labels->singular_name;

Example 2: custom post type

/*
* Creating a function to create our CPT
*/
 
function custom_post_type() {
 
// Set UI labels for Custom Post Type
    $labels = array(
        'name'                => _x( 'Movies', 'Post Type General Name', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'singular_name'       => _x( 'Movie', 'Post Type Singular Name', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'menu_name'           => __( 'Movies', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'parent_item_colon'   => __( 'Parent Movie', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'all_items'           => __( 'All Movies', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'view_item'           => __( 'View Movie', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'add_new_item'        => __( 'Add New Movie', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'add_new'             => __( 'Add New', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'edit_item'           => __( 'Edit Movie', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'update_item'         => __( 'Update Movie', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'search_items'        => __( 'Search Movie', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'not_found'           => __( 'Not Found', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'not_found_in_trash'  => __( 'Not found in Trash', 'twentytwenty' ),
    );
     
// Set other options for Custom Post Type
     
    $args = array(
        'label'               => __( 'movies', 'twentytwenty' ),
        'description'         => __( 'Movie news and reviews', 'twentytwenty' ),
        '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( 'genres' ),
        /* 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'     => 'post',
        'show_in_rest' => true,
 
    );
     
    // Registering your Custom Post Type
    register_post_type( 'movies', $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 );

Example 3: wordpress create new post type

/*
- The function you want for creating a custom wordpress post type is 
register_post_type()
- https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_post_type/
- To add more meta boxes to the post type search for the support items in the 
above link.
- Below is a basic implementation of the function to register video post type
*/
register_post_type( 'video',
  array(
    'labels' => array(
      'name' => 'Videos',
      'singular_name' => 'Video'
    ),
    'public' => true,
    'has_archive' => true,
    'rewrite' => array(
      'slug' => 'videos'
    ),
    'exclude_from_search'=> true
    ,
    'supports' => array(
      'title','editor','thumbnail'
    )
  )
);

Example 4: create custom post type with category in wordpress functions.php

function create_posttype() {
  register_post_type( 'wpll_product',
    array(
      'labels' => array(
        'name' => __( 'Products' ),
        'singular_name' => __( 'Product' )
      ),
      'public' => true,
      'has_archive' => true,
      'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'products'),
    )
  );
}
add_action( 'init', 'create_posttype' );

Example 5: wordpress register post type

function book_setup_post_type() {
    $args = array(
        'public'    => true,
        'label'     => __( 'Books', 'textdomain' ),
        'menu_icon' => 'dashicons-book',
    );
    register_post_type( 'book', $args );
}
add_action( 'init', 'book_setup_post_type' );

Example 6: wp+create custom post type and category

add_action( 'init', 'create_news' );
function create_news ()
{      
    register_post_type( 'ecommerces',
                array(
                'labels'        => array(
                'name'          => __( 'Ecommerces' ),
                'singular_name' => __( 'Ecommerce' )
                ),
                'public'   => true,
                'supports' => array ('title', 'editor', 'thumbnail')
                )
                );

    register_taxonomy(
                'ecommerce_cat',
                'ecommerces',
                array(
                'labels' => array(
                'name' => 'Ecommerce Categories',
                'add_new_item' => 'Add New Ecommerce Category',
                'new_item_name' => "New Ecommerce Category"
                ),
                'show_ui' => true,
                'show_tagcloud' => false,
                'hierarchical' => true,
                'hasArchive' => true
                )
                );

    }

    if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) {
    add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
    set_post_thumbnail_size( 100, 100, true ); 
}

    ?>

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