WordPress custom taxonomies are useful for grouping wordpress posts and custom post types. For example, tags and categories are standard taxonomies provided by WordPress to group WordPress objects. By creating our own custom taxonomies, we can creating our own groupings of posts and custom post types. WordPress also provides a standard user interface for managing…..
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The WordPress custom taxonomy system allows you to create your own grouping of WordPress objects (e.g. posts, pages, and custom post types). Tags and categories, for example, are taxonomy objects that are native to the WordPress system. With the custom taxonomy framework, you can create your own tags and categories. In the article Custom Post…..
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WordPress multisite functionality is now integrated into WordPress 3.0. Currently, we must go through a non-trivial process to turn on multisite capability. However, there are already plugins that try to automate this process in one-click. As this process becomes easier and more streamlined, the multisite capability will likely see wider adoption. Here, we consider how…..
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The Find Posts dialog box can be a very useful feature to add to your plugin. For example, when we attach images to posts (from the Media >> Library menu) we use the Find Posts dialog box to search for our target objects. In the dialog box above, we can search for post and page…..
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In Custom Post Type Permalinks – Part 1 we considered how to set different permalink options from the register_post_type function call. Here, we focus on how to create our own permalink structures. With the register_post_type function, we can easily set our custom post type permalink structure to look like this (assuming custom post type =…..
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Custom post types is a very powerful feature in WordPress 3.0. With custom post types you can easily create post-like objects and automatically have menus, metaboxes, icons, permalinks, and much more added without having to code any of it yourself. Here we consider custom post type permalinks – how to set it, what the different…..
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Custom post types is a new and powerful feature in WordPress 3.0. Here, we consider how to add metaboxes to the new custom post type user interface. There are three general classes of metaboxes that we may add to our custom post type screen – Built-in metaboxes – These metaboxes are built-in to custom post…..
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After we create a custom post type, we get a new menu item on our dashboard with the default post icon. We also get that same default icon when we go into the Edit and Add New screens of our new custom post type. Here, we consider how to set our custom post type icons…..
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One of the exciting new features in WordPress 3.0 is custom post types. We can create our own post types by using the register_post_type function. If we enable UIs for our custom post type, we will get additional menu items on our WordPress dashboard similar to the Edit and Add New options for standard posts……
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Since WordPress 2.9, support has been added for term or taxonomy meta-data. The relevant functions are in wp-includes/meta.php and they include – add_metadata($meta_type, $object_id, $meta_key, $meta_value, $unique = false) update_metadata($meta_type, $object_id, $meta_key, $meta_value, $prev_value = ”) delete_metadata($meta_type, $object_id, $meta_key, $meta_value = ”, $delete_all = false) get_metadata($meta_type, $object_id, $meta_key = ”, $single = false) These functions…..
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