Yaw Owusu-Ansah

Learn.WordPress.org

Supercharging your Website with Custom Post Types and Custom Fields

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Yaw Owusu-Ansah�He/Him�Support Engineer�Waterloo, ON. Canada��Pan-African�Travel Enthusiast�Productivity Hacker�Video-gamer�BBQ Lover

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Let’s share:

• Where are you tuning in from?
• Have you used Custom Post Types and/or Custom Fields?

Before Diving In

As a reminder, this session �will be ●recorded and demo will be shared!

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Let’s have fun!

What we’ll be doing today

• Background on WordPress Post Types and Fields
• What are Custom Post Types and Custom Fields
• Examples and Use Cases
• Demo
• Q & A

• Most content is stored as “Posts” with different types
• Pages
• Posts
• Media
• Extra Information about the Posts is stored as key-value metadata
• Template
• Media url path
• Custom Plugin Data

Background on WordPress Post Types and Fields

Custom Post Types and Custom Fields

Allows us to build our own structure

Capture information that standard WordPress Categories and Tags aren’t well structured for

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Usage Examples

• Team Page: �https://www.meda.org/about/our-team/�
• Allow users to easily edit data:�https://www.africanleadershipacademy.org/about/our-impact/

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DEMO

• Local for a local install of WordPress
• Custom Post Type UI plugin
• Advanced Custom Fields plugin

Other options

Custom Post Types

• Custom Post Types By Total Press
• Custom Post Type Maker
• Code

Local Setup

• Laragon
• XAMPP
• MAMP
• Desktopserver

Custom Fields

• Metabox.io
• Pods.io
• Code

Sandbox Time

jyoansah.me/supercharged

Homework :-)

• Create a WordPress site and experiment with Custom Post Types and Custom Fields
• Create a custom taxonomy (Category, Tags)
• Try out all the different fields in Advanced Custom Fields
• Try and build a frontend form�
• Join the BlackPress Slack
• Join the Make WordPress Slack

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@Yaw on Make Slack

@jyoansah on WordPress.org

@jyoansah on Twitter

www.jyoansah.me

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