The pending WordPress REST API has been a hot topic for WordPress developers and agencies for awhile now. While it’s true the endpoints are not presently merged into WordPress core, the framework needed to create endpoints are, making them able to be manually added by developers, coupled with having the REST API plugin installed and…

If you want to add custom post type posts, you first need to make sure each desired post type is getting the necessary parameter. Once it is, you should see a section for it on the left side of the menu builder screen. Adding the support. When editing your post type, locate the “Show in…

If you wish to start fresh and remove all current post type or taxonomy settings, there are a few ways to do so. None of the provided methods will delete the content created with the post types or taxonomies, just the settings used to register them. If you want to delete the content as well,…

Out of the box, WordPress does not include custom post types in the archives for the default categories and tags archives. Because of this, you need to add the post types to the query yourself. You will add the following snippets to your theme’s functions.php file or if you want, to a custom plugin build…

Featured images are an extremely popular and handy piece of content that help make your post content stand out and shine, whether it’s from you featured articles section, all the way to when shared on social media. If your theme does not already support featured images, you will need to use one of the following…

Out of the box, WordPress does not include custom post types in the search results. Because of this, you need to add the post types to the query yourself. You will add the following snippets to your theme’s functions.php file or if you want, to a custom plugin build just for your own website. Adding…

While we strive to provide fields for as many post type and taxonomy parameters as we can, we admit we do not have 100% of all available parameters. We do try to provide the most useful fields to our users. On occasion, people run into parameters that just aren’t supported yet. If you are in…

Post type renaming In Custom Post Type UI version 1.1.0, we added the ability for our users to rename post type slugs while preserving the posts created for the post type. If you are wanting to rename the slug used for a post type, follow these steps. If everything went well, you should have a…

Some third party themes or plugins have features that can be added to custom post types, but the support needs to be done at the point of post type registration. If a plugin you are using says to add a provided value to the “supports” section of your post type’s registration parameters, this is where…

When we released version 1.0.0 of Custom Post Type UI, we added the ability to import and export settings for all of your post types and taxonomies. Not only did this help make your CPTUI settings portable, but it also proved to help with other issues as users created various content types. You will need…