Custom post types let you create different content types beyond WordPress’s default posts and pages. For example, you could create a “Products” post type for an online store, a “Recipes” type for a food blog, or “Portfolio Items” for showcasing work—each with its own admin section and templates tailored to that specific content.
Custom post types let users to diversify their content inside their website with ease, with proper controls (similar to normal posts) for creating, deleting, and editing a custom post type.
How to create a custom post type #
To create a custom post type, follow the next steps:
- Activate Toolset Plugin.
- Navigate into the Main Menu inside the WordPress Dashboard.
- Select Toolset Option.
- Select on the Add new post type.
- Set the required names and categories.
- Press on Save Post type.
Custom post type settings #
When creating a new post type, you can set up the following fields, depending on your use case:
- Name (Plural and singular forms)
- Slug
- Editor
- Taxonomies
- Sections to be displayed when editing (Title, editor, comments, trackbacks, revisions, authors, excerpt, featured image, custom fields, page attributes, post formats)
- Post relationships
After creating a new post type using Toolset, the user can add:
- Custom fields
- Custom taxonomies
- Custom template
- Custom archive
- Custom forms
