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Custom Post Types in WordPress

For example, if you want to add a field for a URL, you could

template your custom post type page to wrap a featured image

with a link using that URL field. Another example would be

to add a date field so you could display a calendar of events in

chronological order and track start and end dates.

Learn more about ACF^9 on their site.

Displaying Custom Post Type Data

Creating WordPress Templates for Custom Post Types

When creating or working with themes, it is essential to

understand the template hierarchy. You can see a visual map

of this hierarchy in the WordPress documentation^10.

If your CPT is set 'public' => true, your content will

display on one of your default WordPress template pages such

as index.php or single.php.

9 ACF: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com

10 WordPress documentation: https://phpa.me/wordpress-template-hierarchy

If you would like your custom post type layout to look the

same as your other pages, this might be fine. This shows the

power of WordPress. You created something brand new, and

WordPress just makes it work.

But odds are you will want to give your custom post type

pages, archive, and/or listing pages a unique look. Back to our

example of a board of directors listing, we would likely want

to display these members in a grid in alphabetical order, not

in order of most recently added.

You can create custom templates unique to our custom post

types and override these defaults with the following naming

conventions:

• single-{post_type}.php


• archive-{post_type}.php

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