Using Custom Content Types in WordPress
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Course Description
WordPress is a robust and easy-to-use content material administration system (CMS) out of the field. The default “Page” and “Post” content material varieties are sufficient for a lot of web sites and blogs. In order to actually harness the facility of WordPress as a CMS, although, you’ll need create customized content material varieties with fields and taxonomies particular to your explicit utility.
In this course, Envato Tuts+ teacher Rachel McCollin will present you the way to create customized content material varieties in WordPress. You’ll find out how customized content material varieties work with the WordPress database, plugin and templating system. Along the way in which, you’ll use customized put up varieties, customized taxonomies, and customized fields to construct a easy astronomy CMS for displaying details about the most important moons in the photo voltaic system!
What You’ll Learn
- What customized put up varieties are and the way they work.
- How to register and show customized put up varieties.
- How to work with customized taxonomies.
- How to create a metabox for customized fields and show them in your theme.
- Consolidate your studying by finishing the hands-on challenge of constructing a easy astronomy CMS.
About the Instructor
Rachel McCollin is a WordPress developer who writes books, articles and tutorials about internet design and improvement, with a give attention to WordPress and on responsive and cellular improvement. She runs an internet design company in Birmingham, UK and has revealed three books on WordPress. Find out extra on her website, on Twitter, or on LinkedIn.
