- Hey, y'all, welcome to another WordPress Wednesday.
My name is Kori Ashton in beautiful San Antonio, Texas
and today we're gonna be
talking about custom post types.
So, let's say you wanna build something on your website
and use the power of the blogging area
that allows for category, and archives.
We wanna use that, harness that power.
How do you do it?
Let's say that you wanna have
a whole section of press releases
and you don't necessarily want that
living inside of your blog.
Maybe you want an entire section of products
because you just want an online catalog
and you don't wanna be using that blog area
because you actually also have a blog area.
Let's look, today, at how to do that
with a free solution that I'm gonna show you right now
how to plug in and get a whole custom post type
running inside of your WordPress website.
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All right, so you really just need to dream big
about how to use this really cool tool
I'm about to show you.
You can have a whole section over here,
anything you want that lives right down below me here
inside of this navigation area.
So, if your client says, "Hey, I wanna list out a catalog
"on my website of different types of products
"but I don't want people to be able to check out."
You don't really need to get WooCommerce
to do that necessarily.
You can do that using a custom post type.
Or if there's anything you'd
like to separate out into it's own little box
or area, inside of your dashboard
you can do that down here in this section
that lives below my picture here.
You can do that with this tool
that I'm gonna show you right now.
It is called Custom Post Type UI.
That's the plugin, it's by Web Dev Studios.
As of today, everybody knows if you're viewing my channel
I always suggest that you make certain
that they've updated recently,
that it's compatible with the version PHP you're running
as well as the version WordPress Core that you're running.
You always wanna be sure
that it has a lot of active installs
and has really great ratings.
So, be certain of those things.
If you're viewing this later on down,
a couple of years from now,
and you're checking out this video,
it still should be relevant, you still should be
able to do this all on the budget of free
and on my channel, we love that budget.
So, what we wanna do is just into your dashboard.
We're gonna go over to plugins
and we're gonna click Add New
because we wanna add a new plugin.
And remember that this is only really possible
in the self-hosted version of WordPress.
If you're trying to do this on wordpress.com
you're gonna run into some speed bumps,
you're gonna be unable to do this.
So, self-hosted version, you're gonna
come over here to Search Plugins
and we're gonna search for custom post type, okay?
And we should find, remember, we're looking specifically
for this one, Custom Post Type UI.
We want to make a custom post over here,
right below me, inside of this navigation.
And we're gonna harness the power of the blog.
So, again, just really phenomenal reviews,
really phenomenal installs.
We're gonna click Install now.
This might take your computer a little bit of time
depending on what sort of Wi-Fi you're running on
but you should be able to click Install and then Activate.
I'm gonna walk you through step by step.
And an example I'm gonna give you
is, if you're client wanted to have
their own section of products to make
an online category, that's the example I'm gonna use today
but, remember, get as creative
as you possibly can with what I'm about to show you
because you can do a lot with
what I'm about to explain step by step.
So, let's say they wanted to have an individual,
they wanted to have these categories
called interior doors and exterior doors.
They wanna have individual products
inside of this catalog.
Flush doors, panel doors, whatever they
wanna have inside of here.
How would we do that?
How would we accomplish that
without using something like a WooCommerce solution?
Because all we wanna do
is just have a catalog and display them really cool.
We would use this plugin.
Okay, now that that's active, check out down below me here.
Inside of your dashboard, now, you should have an area
that says CPT UI, okay?
That's Custom Post Type UI.
This is where we're gonna go now
to set up your first custom post type.
I want you to pause for a second though
and think about the fact that,
if you're gonna need categories,
if you're gonna need taxonomies,
what are you gonna do
in order to go ahead and put content into this space?
So, stop for a second, and even on pen and paper
map out how you wanna lay out things.
Specifically, for Steve's doors,
what I wanna do is
create a custom post type called all doors.
Inside of there, I want two categories,
two major categories
called interior doors and exterior doors
and then inside of those, I'll have the other categories,
the child categories that live underneath there.
So, interior doors would then have flush doors,
panel doors, glass doors, bi-fold doors, okay?
I need you to get that game plan already in place
because we're about to go build that out right now
inside of your website by creating those categories.
I'm gonna do just a few so you can see the whole process
and then you can spend time playing around
and tinkering with yours.
So, CPT UI, remember again,
I wanna add one called all_doors
and I want that to live over here
on the left side of my navigation.
So, I'm gonna click, Add, Edit, Post Types.
Okay, follow me along with this.
This is where you wanna name
that major category that's gonna live over here.
What do we want it to be over here on that left side?
I'm gonna say All Doors.
It'll automatically adjust.
Notice, it added in,
you're not allowed to have empty spaces
so it added in an underscore.
Plural, so doors, plural.
And then singular label.
This is when a singular label is needed.
I want you to please read all
the little fine print under
each and every little box that's on this page.
That's gonna help you help when I'm not on the screen.
They really have really great documentation here.
So, door, singular,
and then we can describe this.
We can describe this as, all doors in inventory.
And then you're just gonna
go through each and every one of these.
This is the menu name right here, All Doors.
This is All Items.
If you wanna go through this, you can.
It'll automatically take Doors up here at the top
and plug it in for you,
but it's important that you spend time
reading through each and every one of these.
I know it's lengthy,
but if you really wanna get custom
and have some really great language in here,
especially if you're trying to build out something
for recipes or anything that lives over here,
a little community even,
you want it to have different profiles over here.
You can do that.
You just need to read through each and every one of these
and see what it is, and fill in the blank.
And it gives you examples.
Each and every one of these,
it gives you really great examples.
The one thing I need to tell you to do though,
if you want to have an archive section
you need to come down here,
scroll down for a little bit
and we're gonna have a section here
that says Has Archive, and we wanna say, yes,
if we want this to be able to build out
those archive pages, right?
The other thing is, if you wanna have categories,
you see all these options, you guys.
Don't get overwhelmed by them,
just read through each one, step by step, by step.
But if you do wanna have categories
and you do wanna have tags,
go ahead and go through here
and you can click what those are.
For now, I'm going to use only categories
and we're gonna use the WP Core,
so, the WordPress Core solution for categories, okay?
And I'm gonna click Add Post Type.
Easily done, you see here at the top
it says, "all_doors has been successfully added."
I look here on the left side, now check that out.
We have a whole section now
that lives here called All Doors.
All Doors and Add New.
So, if I click Add New, I get to come over here.
I could've said Add new Door if I wanted to,
see how it says that up here at the top?
It went ahead and put that word in for me
because that was
the singular vocabulary word that we put in there.
So, Add title, this could just be Interior Flush Door - Ash,
whatever we want there.
You would add in
any information you need to about the door.
Come over here on the right side
and you would find your category
if you already had one.
If you haven't, you would add a new category
and this would be Interior Doors, right?
Interior Doors.
And, Add New Category.
This actually would
be inside of those flush doors, remember?
Because we had interior doors
and inside of interior doors, we have flush doors.
So, we would wanna add that to Flush Doors
and then choose that parent category
and say Add New Category, easily done.
Featured Image, you can come here
and add in a featured image of the door,
put in the full description of the door,
whatever you would like to do to build out this product page
that's what you do here in this moment.
Using Divi, the thing theme that I'm using,
you can activate Divi on these custom post types as well.
I'll show you how to do that at the end of this
because, notice, I don't have the builder
right here for Divi, yet that's the theme I'm working on.
There's one extra step if you're using a theme
and you're gonna try to use that page builder
on these product pages or on these custom post type pages.
There's one extra step you'll need to do.
I'll show you that toward the end.
But you can also come over here to the Categories section
and build out your categories, easily, right in this space.
Notice, it's gonna go ahead
and pull all of my WordPress Core.
So, this is everything else that I have
inside of my catalog for my categories
inside of my regular post area.
If by some chance you need to edit what you've already done
and how you maybe set it up, what your options were
inside of a custom post type, you can do that.
So, don't worry about running across
something that might be a little funky,
you can always come back.
Let me show you how to do that.
You'll come down here CPT UI
and what I want you to do is say add,
or, see, this has an option to edit the post type, okay?
We can edit it.
We're gonna go into this screen
and up at the top, there are some tabs that live right here.
It says Edit Post Types.
So, if you have a lot of post types you've created over here
you'd have a drop-down option here
that you can select which one you wanna edit.
We only have one called Doors right now.
There it is, this is where it lives.
And maybe we don't like the fact
that it's using the categories for the blog area.
Maybe we want it
to just use a different section for categories.
Check this out.
Let's just scroll down.
We're gonna scroll down to that area.
Remember, it was toward the end,
all the way toward the bottom.
Again, you see the option, remember?
To use the WP Core.
Let's go ahead and change it right now.
Uncheck WP Core, change it to regular Categories
and we're gonna click Save Post Type.
So, that completely changed it.
So, now when we go back to the all doors area
and we check out Categories now.
Any other custom post type that lives there
that has categories would be here,
instead of pulling all the categories from your blog.
Kinda cool, right?
So, no panic here,
you can always come back in and make edits.
All right, if you're using the Divi builder
and you want to tell it to please be applicable
to all of those custom post type pages
that we're building out.
You're gonna go to Divi,
you're gonna go to Theme Options,
and inside of here there's one little area,
you just have to turn on the little toggle bar
and then that'll allow you to then
go into your custom post type
and have access to the Divi builder
or any page builder, for that matter,
and you'll be able to drag and drop, make a page template,
easily done for all of these.
So, on this theme options page,
you're gonna go to Builder
and it says enable the Divi builder on post types.
Which post type?
Well, now we just made a new one called Doors.
So, we wanna enable it and click Save Changes.
So, that when we go into All Doors now,
I'm gonna go back and just show you what it looks like,
so you can see how it's activated,
I would be able to make that template if I wanted to
and then apply that template
to every single one of my custom post type pages here.
Really easily done, and now you see here
that that Divi builder is now available in this space.
Y'all, this is just a matter of getting really creative
with how you use this to make a custom area
inside of your navigation for your WordPress website.
A lot of your clients, if you're a freelancer,
a lot of your clients are gonna love
that you're able to section them out like that.
Tinker and play around.
This custom post type plugin
has phenomenal support and documentation.
So, if this video isn't enough for you
just do another Google search
for Custom Post Type UI plugin
and you're gonna find their support forum,
you're gonna find their amazing documentation
to help you, step by step, walk through this
and really use it to its fullest capabilities.
I hope this has helped, y'all.
Stick around, I'll talk
a little bit about my health journey.
If not, I'll catch y'all next WordPress Wednesday.
Have a great one, bye, y'all.
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Hey, y'all, thanks for sticking around still,
those of you who are following my health journey.
I know this is a little bit of a longer video
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All right, y'all, keep smiling, keep looking up.
I will see y'all next WordPress Wednesday, bye, everyone.