- Hey y'all, my name is Kori Ashton,
and welcome to another WordPress Wednesday.
This video is quickly gonna cover a free solution
on how to build out a custom area
inside of your WordPress dashboard
that acts like the same function or features as your blog.
You can have specific categories inside of there,
utilize tags and name it, anything you want.
I'm gonna show you what I mean.
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So specifically, I'm talking about adding a section
over here on your left side navigation.
By default you're always gonna have Posts.
And if you're running the Divi theme,
you're gonna have projects living in here.
But what if you want to rename this area
as maybe calling it recipes or add a whole nother section
for news or something along those lines?
How would you do that easily and quickly?
And again, for the budget of free?
You have to plug in a plugin in order to make this happen.
So, we're gonna go to Add New underneath Plugins.
We're gonna jump over here on this right side
and we're gonna look for Custom Post Type
and you're gonna find this one right here.
Look right here.
I mean, they're near up to a million active installs
as of today.
So if you're watching this later on,
down the road they easily could be
over a million active installs right now,
has phenomenal reviews.
It's been updated recently
and it's compatible with my version of WordPress.
Best practices anytime you're adding a plugin
to your WordPress website you wanna check these parameters
just to be certain that they look great like this.
And we're gonna go ahead and click Install Now.
Remember also before you're really diving into this
and following this tutorial, pause for a minute,
go be certain you have a backup of your website in place
and be certain you know how to get to that backup
just in case anything breaks right now.
If you wonder how to do that
I have a tutorial in the description box below
that you can go check out and follow my steps
on how to back up your WordPress website.
I'm gonna go ahead and click Activate right now.
Now in doing this down here on this left side,
you should have an area that is its own Custom Post Type
for adding new Custom Post Types.
All right.
So exciting.
Here we go.
We're gonna go Add New.
So this is super straightforward to do.
We're just gonna go step by step and fill out each field.
Now you might feel a little bit overwhelmed
with all the options you're about to see here
but I'm gonna give you the absolute necessities right now
to go in here and create a Custom Post Types.
We're gonna walk through these.
So Post Type Slug.
The example I'm gonna do for you right now
is I'd like to create a recipes area
over here on the left navigation.
So, custom Post Type Slug.
We're gonna go ahead and name this recipes, right?
There you go.
The Plural Label. Again, Recipes.
This is what you want it to display for the Plural Label.
The Singular Label is going to be a single Recipe, right?
That's it y'all, that simple.
One, two, three required fields.
And you can click Add Post Type
but I wanna take this a step further.
I really wanna give this its own categories capability.
So for now I'm gonna go ahead and click Add Post Type.
Next step I wanna go ahead and create the categories area.
So now we're gonna jump into Add/Edit Taxonomies.
Let me show you that really quickly on this screen
so you can click there as well.
Next step is right here.
Add/Edit Taxonomies.
You see that space.
We're gonna click there.
Let's go into that section.
Now here, we're gonna go ahead and create recipe categories.
That's all we wanna do here.
We wanna create this to say recipe_categories.
Do you see how it won't allow a space?
It's automatically gonna put an underline there.
That's perfect, leave it there.
We're gonna follow again.
Just fill in the blank.
Plural Label, Recipes.
Plural, and then single Recipe, right?
There you go.
And we wanna attach it to our Custom Post Type
that we just made called Recipes.
Do you see that right here?
Go ahead and click there and click Add Taxonomy.
Now that we have that created it lives right here.
All Recipes, you see it right here.
Now we can start adding content to it.
How cool is that?
If we'd like to, we wanna go ahead
and assign the categories in here too, right?
So let's do one extra step.
Let's go back here,
go back to Add Post Type that we created.
You're gonna go up here to the top
and you're gonna select Edit Post Types.
See that up here at the very top.
We're gonna click that.
We're gonna select the Post Type
that we've created, Recipes.
Now we're gonna slide all the way down to the bottom.
Don't worry about all this.
You can take time if you want to tinker with it
fill in the blank, have fun, get creative, sure.
You can even add in your own Menu Icon
if you don't like the little thumbtack that lives over here.
So scrolling down, you can then assign
what fields you want it to render inside of the Post Type.
So do you want the Title?
Of course we do.
Do we want that page Editor area?
Of course we do.
Do we want the Featured Image area?
Yeah, I actually do for my recipes.
And of course you can select anything else
that you might like.
The other step that you'll wanna do then is associate
that new category that we just made for Recipes.
We wanna associate that here under Taxonomies.
We're gonna click that Recipes and then we're gonna go ahead
and click the Save button just below here, Save Post Type.
And once we do that now,
everything is gonna function correctly.
On this left side when we go here, we're gonna see Recipes.
That's gonna be our recipe categories.
Now, I don't actually like that just saying recipes,
I want that to say Recipe Categories.
So let's jump back there and edit that for a minute.
I'm gonna go back over here
to the left side, click Taxonomies,
Edit Taxonomies up at the top,
edit Recipes, right?
That's what we wanna do.
And then the Singular Label here,
we're gonna call it Recipe Category.
And up at the top here,
we're gonna call it Recipe Categories, right?
Plural, there you go.
And let's go ahead and save that Taxonomy
by clicking this blue button just below here, save.
And that does it.
Now we should see it read correctly.
Look at that, brilliant.
And finally, if all you wanted to do
is just simply rename the Post Area
to being news or recipes,
you can use this really great plugin.
It's last updated five months ago as of this video,
Custom Post Type Editor.
So it will allow you to rename those posts
to news or anything you like.
It's pretty cool.
You can go in and simply rename anything you want
on that left side and make it a little bit more custom
to what you or maybe your client needs.
So let me tell you really quickly how to plug this one in.
You're gonna do a search for this name,
Custom Post Type Editor inside of your dash board.
So let's jump back in there and we're gonna go to plugins
and say, Add New.
Over here on this right side you'll do a search.
Here, it is right here, Install Now.
Go ahead and click Activate and we're gonna jump right in.
Now that that lives here inside of our website,
we can go over here on the left side to Custom Post Types.
And now you have it.
There it is.
There's Posts.
This is our default area, right?
We can go in here and click Edit and change that name.
Add New Recipe, right?
It's exactly the way we wanna do it.
Now this one's a little bit of a longer task
because you're overriding one that already exists.
So you need to just take your time
through each one of these fields,
if you care to have it be this specific.
It's really up to you.
But I think for uniformity,
especially if you're handing this off to a client
I think this would be best practices
just to kind of work down through here.
So instead of Post Attributes,
it would be Recipe Attributes, right?
Search Post, it would be Search Recipes, good.
No recipes found.
See, you just kinda have to work
through each one to make it appropriate now
for what this area is.
No recipe found. No Recipes plural found in Trash can.
New Menu Names. So here it is.
Instead of Posts on this left side over there,
it's gonna be Recipes, right?
All Recipes,
and then Add New Recipe, right?
Or we can just leave it, Add New, that works.
Singular on the post.
Oh, learn how to spell Recipe.
Featured Images, fine,
Set Featured Image, fine.
Remove featured image.
Post Archives. This is gonna be Recipe Archives now, right?
Insert Into Recipe. I like that.
That's nice and custom.
Upload to this recipe, right?
Filter recipes list, plural.
Post list navigation recipes, list navigation
and Recipes list.
Now click Save Changes, right down here at the bottom.
I'll move this screen up so you can see that little button.
This is the button here,
you're gonna go ahead and click Save Changes.
Now, magically, reload this page.
It says right here, Reload.
And the left side now reads Recipes, go to all recipes.
All of your content still lives here.
Go to of Recipe Categories
and all those now function perfectly.
How cool is that, you guys?
I'll put the link to this specific plugin
in the description box below.
Okay, y'all I know that that was a lot
but you can always go back and rewind this video.
You can also reach out to the developers of this plugin
and ask them for support directly.
I'll put the link below
so you can find this specific plugin.
I hope this helps.
And if you are a Divi user,
you're running your whole website on Divi
or maybe you're using the Divi builder,
I have an entire playlist dedicated to Divi
here on my YouTube channel.
All right, I will see y'all next WordPress Wednesday.
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See you then.
Bye everyone.
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