Soma Design

Hey thanks for the class.
I have changed some stuff inside your class to suit my needs.

e.g if my cus­tom type name is project
i want all my projects url to be /projects/urlofpage and not /project/urlofpage

It is a small change but i pre­fer this way

thanks again

I got it, sor­ry Matt. And con­grat­u­la­tions again!

Hi, I got every­thing work­ing OK.
Only prob­lem is view­ing a sin­gle cus­tom post gives me the 404, I’ve vis­it­ed the perma­links page, saved etc
(http://testing/2010/06/07/sample-post/ )
but still get­ting 404 not found, any tips would be great­ly appreciated.

PS: http://testing/chairs works fine (the cus­tom post listing)

Nev­er­mind. I’ve mod­i­fied one of the pub­lic func­tions to:

pub­lic func­tion register_post_type() {
register_post_type( $this->post_type, $this->args );
register_taxonomy_for_object_type(‘post_tag’, $this->post_type);
}

All seems to be work­ing now. Let me know if this is the best way!

Nice work on this class. For what­ev­er rea­son, this does­n’t seem to be in the core for 3.0, and I appre­ci­ate not hav­ing to mess around with the rewrite rules. Thanks!

Thanks for the excel­lent class. I’m using it right now, but is there a way to mod­i­fy the code, so that it does­n’t reg­is­ter the types (I’m already using a plu­g­in for that), and it only cre­ates the tem­plate support? 

What I did was com­ment out the actu­al register_post_type func­tion call, but seems some­what inef­fi­cient to have all the oth­er code just lying around. I’m just not sure what I need to leave, and what to delete.

Thanks!

One more thing.. 

When I add query_posts(‘showposts=2’); to my movie/index.php file, and try to go to the pre­vi­ous posts page (page/2) it can­not find the pages. 

Do you know why this would be?

I also tried putting this in the index.php file

glob­al $wp_query;
$wp_query = new WP_Query(“post_type=movie&post_status=publish&posts_per_page=2”);

This would show the same post over sev­er­al pages. I was com­plete­ly con­fused after that… 😛 

Thanks for any help

-Brad

OK, fol­lowed every­thing and its works!!! Kick ass awe­some you’re the best.

One last piece of the puz­zle though.

I have tried using wp_list_pages but my new cus­tom post type does­n’t show up in the list because it’s not a page.

Then I tried wp_nav_menu and added the cus­tom link to it in the admin area under Menus. But that’s not how I want to do it because it makes me add it as an absolute url.

Have you fig­ured out a way to cre­ate a menu with pages and cus­tom post types and still have the core gen­er­ate it so that it gives you the 

.current_page_item

or

.cur­rent-menu-item

So that I can style my active links?

Much appre­ci­at­ed.

You are cor­rect, you can just place the rel­a­tive url in there like this

/link-to-page/

but if you don’t add the domain and make it an absolute url, then it won’t cre­ate the 

cur­rent-menu-item

and you won’t be able to show an active state.

I’ve tried both.

An exam­ple using ur class its nice it works so fine 😀

register_taxonomy( ‘gen­ero’, ‘pelic­u­la’,
array(
‘hier­ar­chi­cal’ => true,
‘label’ => __(‘Genero’),
‘query_var’ => ‘gen­ero’,
‘rewrite’ => array(‘slug’ => ‘peliculas/genero’ )
)
);
$args_array = array(
‘label’ => __(‘Peliculas’),
‘singular_label’ => __(‘Pelicula’),
‘pub­lic’ => true,
‘show_ui’ => true,
‘query_var’ => true,
‘capability_type’ => ‘page’,
‘hier­ar­chi­cal’ => false,
‘rewrite’ => true,
‘sup­ports’ => array(‘title’, ‘thumbnail’,‘editor’),
‘taxonomies’=>array(‘post_tag’,‘genero’),
);
sd_register_post_type( ‘pelic­u­la’, $args_array, ‘pelic­u­las’ );

Derr.…. I think I got it, I just copy past­ed Matts code to the begin­ning of my functions.php then added my post type and tax­onomies just like Joser­go­ry House did. Thanks Matt!!

I’ve been mess­ing with this post type stuff for weeks now, so i’ve got code all over the place, good thing its just a local dev site ;). Hap­py WordPressing!

I have tried using sd_register_post_type( ‘movie’ ); inside anoth­er func­tion which is called on a form sub­mis­sion — is this pos­si­ble — it would­nt work for me — maybe im doing some­thing wrong?
( i am try­ing to make a form and but­ton to reg­is­ter a new post type )
thanks for the class

I thank you for this great con­tri­bu­tion to Word­Press. Your class has found a home in my theme frame­work used in devel­op­ing WP sites for my clients, it has been a big help.

In my par­tic­u­lar usage I have updat­ed your tem­plate fil­ter­ing a bit. If the user is on an archive for a cus­tom tax­on­o­my, I added in some log­ic to see if it is assigned to the cus­tom post type. If it is assigned to the cus­tom post type we look to see if the appro­pri­ate tem­plate is avail­able in the a sub direc­to­ry named after the post type.

This goes hand in hand with what you had in place when check­ing for the sin­gle and index tem­plate files. Things are now set­up in a man­ner to dynam­i­cal­ly look at any tem­plate file com­ing in.

Have a look for your­self using the link below. If you see the added func­tion­al­i­ty is use­ful, feel free to include/adapt with the class you dis­trib­ute. A hap tip in the code is all I require 😉

You can find the updat­ed func­tion at:
http://greaterweb.pastebin.com/g2dpTbRe

The over­all goal is to have cus­tom post type sub direc­to­ries func­tion in a sim­i­lar man­ner as child themes do. I’m putting togeth­er sim­i­lar func­tion­al­i­ty right now to look for a side­bar in the sub direc­to­ry for the cus­tom post type. I’m hap­py to send this your way for review once complete.

awe­some, total­ly awe­some. i’m using it to build my first theme, when i’m fin­ished i’ll send you a link.
i have one ques­tion tough, it appears that i can­not add Cat­e­gories or Tags to my cus­tom posts, i’ll search for some­thing about it but if you can shed some light on this i’ll be grate­ful. thanks a lot

@MATT The same day I was work­ing with the class I wrote a helper func­tion to grab the post type. You can take a peak at the func­tion here:

http://greaterweb.pastebin.com/fCGYBjLx

It does con­sid­er that very sce­nario that a tax­on­o­my could be assigned to mul­ti­ple post types. I haven’t adapt­ed any sort of log­ic yet though as to which would be the appro­pri­ate tem­plate to serve up.

I will be revamp­ing the tem­plate func­tion to be a bit more aligned with your orig­i­nal approach. The flaw of my approach is that by the time the tem­plate gets to the func­tion, it will be the low­est lev­el in the tem­plate hier­ar­chy such as a single.php, or archive.php. In real­i­ty it should bet­ter mod­el WP. So in addi­tion to look­ing for archive.php it looks first for taxonomy-term.php, taxonomy-taxonomy.php and taxonomy.php in our post type sub directory.

@MATT Haven’t com­plete­ly test­ed this yet but it seems to be the most com­pre­hen­sive approach to fil­ter­ing the tem­plates for cus­tom post types.

http://greaterweb.pastebin.com/URpfkJhM

Still does­n’t fac­tor in if a tax­on­o­my is assigned to mul­ti­ple post types. It appears that call­ing get_post_type() in the con­text of a tax­on­o­my archive will return the first post type assigned to that tax­on­o­my. At that point it’s dif­fi­cult to know which post type should take prece­dence over the oth­er when grab­bing the template.

Lov­ing the func­tions this class provides.

Ques­tion, how do I use a dif­fer­ent tem­plate for the next pages? ie when next_posts_page() is clicked and direct­ed to movies/page/2 I’d like a dif­fer­ent tem­plate to use. 

Cheers, Jeff

@Stephen Orr You may want to inves­ti­gate the “slug” you are using for your post type direc­to­ry name and archive urls. 

A few things to con­sid­er for those hav­ing trou­ble get­ting archive tem­plates to dis­play properly.

When call­ing sd_register_post_type() it accepts an option­al 3rd para­me­ter. If this para­me­ter is omit­ted the rewrite rule slugs will be cre­at­ed based on the first para­me­ter. The class con­struc­tor adds and “s” to the post type slug passed in as the first parameter.

So for exam­ple, if you cre­ate a cus­tom post type movie like this:

sd_register_post_type( 'movie' );

The post slug becomes movies. This means your archive url needs to be http://your-domain.com/movies/.

It also means you will need a sub direc­to­ry in your theme named movies or at the min­i­mum use movies.php in the theme root.

The con­fus­ing part can be for some that the argu­ments array (sec­ond para­me­ter) allows you to set a slug such as this:

'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'movie' )

Even if you were to set your slug here the rewrite rules (at least for the basic archive) will be based on a plur­al ver­sion of the post type slug passed in as the first parameter.

Hope this helps 🙂

Cool code.

Would be nice if your code would be ready for the “Get­Text” trans­la­tion method.
Here’s how to do just that » http://wpml.org/2009/05/wordpress-theme-localization/#wrapping_in_gettext_functions

Thank’s

This is great — very good stuff, thank you.

Have you sub­mit­ted it as a patch to the Word­Press code­base? It’d be a very wel­come core enhancement.

Also, have you con­sid­ered updat­ing your code here to include Ron’s work, which seems to make yours more com­plete with the tax­on­o­my relat­ed code?

Thanks again.

@Ron — for the cus­tom tax­onomies URL, am I look­ing at
a) http://www.yoursiteurl.com/custom-post-name/custom-taxonomy-name/term-name

or

b) http://www.yoursiteurl.com/custom-taxonomy-name/term-name

Nei­ther seem to be work­ing with your ver­sion — how­ev­er I feel I’m miss­ing something.

I’m get­ting a blank page when try­ing to access the feed for a cus­tom type. Tried flush­ing my perma­links — no dice. Any­one know a fix for that? Cheers

Too cool — thanks for the class Matt. I’ve includ­ed it as part of a plu­g­in frame­work I’m cur­rent­ly work­ing on. I’ve also made a few small adjustments.

One you may be inter­est­ed in involves adding year/month/day params to the rewrite rules (also takes pag­ing and feeds into account) :
http://pastebin.com/Xr8QdNNx

So now you can have /movies/2010/ or /movies/2010/01/03/page/2/ and so on.

Thanks again — this real­ly helped me out big time.

Does the con­struct func­tion only work with PhP 5?

Wow, this was pret­ty ground­break­ing. As the above user said, you actu­al­ly cre­at­ed some­thing that trans­forms Word­Press into damn near a tried and true CMS. Thank you!

One thing I was hop­ing this would address is the Bread­crumb issue. Even when using this style of reg­is­ter­ing new Post Types, when I ini­ti­ate any kind of Bread­crumb nav­i­ga­tion, it nev­er rec­og­nizes the struc­ture. Exam­ple, I’d like a Bread­crumb trail to read:

Home –> Books –> Sin­gle Book

But if I cre­ate a new post using the post type of ‘Books’, my bread­crumb still reads:

Home –> Sin­gle Book

Do you (or any­body here) know of a way to get a Post Type assigned to a par­tic­u­lar par­ent page or cat­e­go­ry so that Bread­crumbs func­tion or a plu­g­in that does this? 

Or per­haps I am miss­ing some­thing essen­tial about how Word­Press works.

Hi Matt.

Con­grat­u­la­tions. I need a help here please.
I am using cus­tom post types for my port­fo­lio. Every­thing works well, but page pag­i­na­tion. For exam­ple. In my port­fo­lio page, I assigned it to shows 9 items(posts) per page. So, if you have for exam­ple 12 items, the pag­i­na­tion will be cre­at­ed. Then, when I try to go to the oth­er page to view my oth­er items, I received a 404 error with this URL (http://tmp.dev/portfolio/page/2)

Any idea here?

Cheers

Any updates on solv­ing the issues with the feed? I’m get­ting a blank screen when vis­it­ing the rss. http://www.ubyssey.ca/news/feed

Thanks. Jeff

Thanks a lot. You just saved my day. I’ve searched for way to han­dle this so long.
Once again, thank you — and keep up the good work

Try­ing to use this great class in com­bi­na­tion with Kino Events Plu­g­in: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kino-event-calendar-plugin/ which uses Cus­tom Post Types. I includ­ed the class using define(‘CHILDTEMPLATEPATH’, dirname(__FILE__ ) );
require_once( CHILDTEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sd_register_post_type.1.3.php’);
But I won­der how I can make this class with the already reg­is­tered Kino Events Cal­en­dar Cus­tom Post Type Events to have an index page. I would not need to reg­is­ter again I’d say. But how to add your class to this plu­g­in gen­er­at­ed Cus­tom Post Type?

Word­Press 3.1 beta 1 now has index page for cus­tom post types. See:

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13818

Dou you have any plan to remove your own land­ing page functions?

@Matt

I have been using this func­tion for months now and absolute­ly love it, esp the abil­i­ty to use sub­di­rec­to­ries and a sep­a­rate tem­plate for the paged archives.

I do have one question:

I want­ed to give the users the abil­i­ty to switch their cus­tom post-type archive tem­plate between one with side­bars and one without.

Nor­mal­ly this would be easy, as the user would cre­ate a new page and assign a tem­plate to the page.

How­ev­er, using this script, when a user cre­ates a page for the post-type archives, it is going to go and use the post-type/index.php archive page, no mat­ter what tem­plate they choose.

So far I can’t even come up with a con­cept in my head of how to tack­le this issue of giv­ing them the abil­i­ty to switch archive templates.

Do you have any ideas?

@Paul

LOL some­times the eas­i­est solu­tions are the hard­est to see through the forest.

A lit­tle ‘hacky’ but it will work per­fect­ly for what I need.

Thank you

Thanks! This looks like the solu­tion to all my problems.

Why does Automat­tic nev­er think things through before they launch something?!

Hav­ing pag­i­na­tion of cus­tom post type items is NOT an option­al nice to have; it is some­thing that every­body who uses cus­tom post types will run into. Why did Automat­tic not see that coming?

I think WP 3.1 will have a cus­tom post type index page. Will that solve these issues? Will it clash with this class?

What a mess…

@Matt (“Also: your com­plaints are lame and misinformed …”)

As far as I know Automat­tic decides when a fea­ture is ready for release. I could be wrong about that; I’m not an insid­er fol­low­ing the day-to-day of WP development.

And that is the prob­lem. For some­one who is not a pro­gram­mer, but just a con­tent pro­duc­er who actu­al­ly uses Word­Press on a project, this type of loose ends is real­ly disruptive. 

For me it is not eas­i­ly resolved. I won’t have time to fig­ure out your code for a while and/or fig­ure out how it com­pares with the 3.1 solution.

You sir are the man. Thank you so much. Now I can cre­ate my loop of cus­tom post types!

Thank you!

“@Peter: when Cus­tom Post Types were intro­duced into Word­Press 3.0, as they were a brand new fea­ture it was decid­ed to wait and see how the wider devel­op­ment and end user com­mu­ni­ties used them before pack­ag­ing them up with loads of functionality …”

I’m not ask­ing for more func­tion­al­i­ty! My point is that releas­ing half-fin­ished fea­tures gets non-pro­gram­mers in trouble.

Again, any­one who uses cus­tom post types in even the most basic form will run into this prob­lem; no index, pag­i­na­tion does­n’t work.

I would rather have less func­tion­al­i­ty and be able to depend on that func­tion­al­i­ty. Automat­tic’s MO seems to be to pile up half-baked fea­tures, so I’m con­stant­ly fix­ing stuff that’s pro­mot­ed as work­ing out of the box.

Matt, thanks for cod­ing this and shar­ing. It’s been of great use to me so far, but I was won­der­ing how one could extend your class to have cat­e­go­ry sup­port. For exam­ple, how could this be extend­ed to go to http://yourdomain.com/movies/category/horror of even, if it’s eas­i­er http://yourdomain.com/movies?category=horror.

I’m fair­ly new to under­stand­ing how fil­ters and hooks work in word­press. Is it as sim­ple as adding a new line? Thanks in advance.

Is there any way to remove /page/ from pag­i­na­tion.. so there you’ll have only portfolio/2 instead of portfolio/page/2 ?

@MATT

Yes, I have already tried that but it isn’t work­ing. The /page/ is still there.

Thanks for the code. It made cus­tom post types eas­i­er for me. 

I have a ques­tion, now that WP 3.1 is out, Are you say­ing that this code is obso­lete? Part of the beau­ty was the reusable class to eas­i­ly add the post types. hmm, I’ll have to delve deep­er into wp3.1 post types code. Do you have any sug­ges­tions for migrat­ing the class to WP3.1?

Hi

Like i said before i upgrade my Word­Press to 3.1, is there any way to save all the posts that i’ve cre­at­ed using this class? i don’t want to lose all my posts.

Hi Please help with Word­Press 3.1, my post types are not work­ing 🙁 please help

I don’t get it…if you fol­low the steps I detailed above, you don’t need to pay for anything!

Just revert your post types back to the reg­u­lar Word­Press register_post_type func­tion and then upgrade. Worked per­fect­ly for me and I’m on 3.1 now.

I’d just like to quick­ly thank you for link­ing to my arti­cle on the new Cus­tom Post Type Archives intro­duced in Word­Press 3.1 — It’s very much appreciated! 🙂

I love how some­thing like what you guys did (along with oth­ers), and requests from users for this fea­ture, inspired the Word­Press Devel­op­ers (IMO) to add this to the Core Code for every­one to use and take advan­tage of!

will sure­ly check­out this…thank you for sharing

Good post. I learn some­thing new and chal­leng­ing on blogs I stum­ble­upon on a dai­ly basis.
It’s always inter­est­ing to read through arti­cles from oth­er authors and use some­thing from their websites.