Customizing permalinks

When it comes to permalink customization, outside of slugs for the content types themselves, we do not have any official or formal settings for customizing permalink structures. This is because with the plugin, we’ve aimed to focus on just what can be set and created via the register_post_type() and register_taxonomy() functions. Because of that, we…

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Recommended Plugins

We recommend these plugins to be used in conjunction with Custom Post Type UI to further enhance your website. Permalinks Customizing permalinks to formats you’re wanting. Meta Data Content Type Management Migrating post content between post types and administration General debugging Query monitor can be used to inspect queries being made, templates being used for…

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Custom Post Types and Divi

Customizing Search Module By default, the Divi Search Module only searches posts and pages, depending on the settings configured in the module itself. The code snippet below allows to retain those settings, but also add in the post types registered with Custom Post Type UI to be considered with the search as well. Blog Module…

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Custom Post Type UI and WP-CLI

If you weren’t aware, you can actually do a good amount of of administration and site management via your computer terminal console with a tool like WP-CLI. We are not going to go into all of the powerful things it can do out of box, as that’s a documentation site on its own. We are…

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Custom Post Type UI Hooks

Current as of version 1.12.0. Reach out if you’ve found one we’re missing. Custom Post Type UI has 107 action and filter hooks available for usage. Some may prove more useful than others. Some are used primarily for integration with Custom Post Type UI Extended. Would love to hear how you’re using any of them.…

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Using the Debug Info tab for Custom Post Type UI

If you have used oursupport forums at any time in the past number of years, chances are you’ve received a response from Michael, helping debug whatever issue you were experiencing at the time. Hopefully Michael has proved helpful and resolved a given issue swiftly and timely. However, there are cases where Michael just needed more…

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Listing posts by post title in WP Admin

If you want to list your custom post type posts in alphabetical order when viewing the WordPress admin area, the following code will help. It should go in your active theme’s functions.php file or a custom plugin. function pluginize_order_cpt_by_title( $query ) { if ( ! is_admin() ) { return; } if ( ! $query->is_main_query() )…

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How to add your custom post type to RSS feeds

Out of the box, WordPress does not include custom post types in RSS feeds. 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 all…

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