Create Custom Post Types with the CPT-UI plugin 

Much appreciated Adrian :-)

And thank you too Annette. It's good to feel I have not made it more confusing.

Wow, that is great to here. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment.

Hi, Justin! I'm working on the same kind of project, a Podcast page. I hope/think your page is allready finisht. I'm really curious to the result! What is the url of the page? And can i send you a email for some more question?

Cheers Andy. Thanks for taking the time.

Cheers Adrian. Always nice to see you :-)

Blimey, how did I miss your comment? Thank you so much Lorelei :-)

Wow thanks. The production value. Yeah that was a temporary blip! Ha ha. I thought I would up my game with a new approach. I failed and went back to going for one take. I don't know about you but they always seems to take longer that I expect. For me, it seems to be endless fails before I can get past one minute. After that It's straight though with perhaps one or two edits after. I think the easiest is when I leave the cam on all though and don't edit. Hard not to trip over words without sounding like a robot. At least for me. I did really want to do this video, but the other I saw on this all missed something I thought was key to what I trying to do with Beaver themer videos.

Indeed making video's is a timely process, even more so than blog posts and just about anything else. As for me, I rarely manage everything in one take, so end up editing in post production to get things right.

Thank you. That is so kind of you and appreciated. All the best David

Cheers Mark

Thanks so much, Bianka.

Wow, I have 100 likes. I am amazed. Thanks, Sudhakar.

Thank you Rizwan :-)

Thanks Brian. Did you do the last bit at 16:31? Setting the hierarchy to "true" means that taxonomy will behave like categories. Leaving it as false and it will behave like tags.

Thanks Jesh. Yes it should do unless that plugin did something strange to the data. I have switched the CPT-UI to my own plugin and also the Pods plugin with no issues. Best of luck.

Sorry I don't. This is something specific to your theme and I don't know it.

Thanks Richard. There probably are a bunch of plugins and you should be able to do it with a code snippet in your child themes functions.php file. I just can't find the best options now as I have been using a page builder that can handles to post archive stuff for me. Maybe start with this: www.wpexplorer.com/order-custom-post-type-posts-wordpress/

@@DavidWaumsley OK thanks David. I've decided to go with the grid archive page with featured images (as per your tutorial) which works well. Thanks for your response.

Thank you. I use Beaver Builder (with Beaver Themer) for laying out the Custom Post Types (via it's posts module. Other videos on Beaver Builders covered that side of things, but many other Page Builders do the same now. If not using a page builder it can be more complex.

@@DavidWaumsley Tank you David !

Thank you. You would need to add the URL with the custom link option in your WP menu. So yourdomain.com/cpt-name here: cloud.wpcornershop.com/9ZuAZKAN. Any help?

Hi @Mikk Meerents, I hope that you have already found a solution, but if not I am sharing my own. I had the same question, then I thought that I could add the post type to the menu as a custom link. For example if you have a product type named "laptops" and its slug is "laptop", you take the url "yoursite/laptop", go to the Appearance > Menus, choose the menu you want it to and below Pages you go to Custom Links. There you paste the url and choose a Link Text that you like and you click "Add to Menu".

This is quite old and is showing the WordPress classic editor rather than the newer (Gutenberg) block editor. I don't use WordPress as much, but I still go back to the classic editor with this plugin wordpress.org/plugins/disable-gutenberg/

Indeed it does work with Beaver Themer. I find PODS a little simpler than CPT UI, funny how differently we experience things. Perhaps it's the custom fields in PODS that you find add more complexity, as CPT UI only deals with custom post types and taxonomies and no custom fields.

Gotcha so that's the key difference. so if you want a simple post type then CPT UI works good, but if you want custom fields and posts, then Pods is better.

Yeah, definitely works. It is just registering things so in fact you could create the CPT's with this plugin and swap it for Pod or your own plugin later. I did this video as a standalone, but in fact it so I can add it to my loose series on Beaver Themer. I'm more familiar with this plugin and ACF, but I hope to get to help from Bernhard Gronau on doing some Pods videos. I'm not sure how much I will do though as I have settled on ACF personally.

Not necessarily, use whatever tool you prefer. E.g. with CPT UI I'll use Advanced Custom Fields and with PODS nothing additional is necessary. ACF is a really polished product, more so than the PODS fields, but PODS is all in one, so again, whatever you feel comfortable with, use that tool.

ahhh, that actually sums it up nicely. I bought acf , but don't use it because it lacks custom posts or taximonies, but with this plugin. it will create the missing link i needed. thanks.

That's a big question and it depend how you wanted it to do. Off the top of my head (and with me using Beaver Builder with Beaver themer) I could: 1 Add a post module to my single product post set to show randomly other products that share a tag or category. 2. Set up a custom fields with ACF to show a series of related products (images with links) so I could add the as I liked 3 Either use Pods (for both CPTs and fields) for it's bi-relational ability OR use ACF Post-2-Post with ACF to allow that.

Thank you for the reply. Well, I was always doing a half-assed job like installing woocomerce turning off some of it features and installing catalog plugins. Result was ... lagging the site for a decent effect. Now I switched to elementor, and I finally want to try ACF/Pods + custom templates made in elementror 2.0 ACF P-2-P seems right

I was doing the same with WooCom too. I even repurposed the cart functionality in to a wish list/enquiry tool with a modified checkout form allowing enquires on these selected products. BUT, it's such a pain maintaining WooCom when you have custom modifications. They so love to change things Being able to change dynamic content with page builders just makes everything so much easier I think.

David Waumsley you're right. Now with latest dynamic support for ACF in elementor its sick easy.

Cheers Faisal. Thanks for watching :)

Mamta. You may want to look the fields plugins there are. I use this wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/

Is "Has Archive" set to true and have you resaved permalinks. It is usually down to one of these.

I did this. You were right. Although I don't get the 404 error now I got a blank page.

How annoying. Are you using it to display regular WordPress post or doing something with a Page Builder?

+David Waumsley it's working now david. i was not using a correct slug. thanks

Great question. No, not at all see here: wphive.com/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/

Also, if you wanted to you could use the code it creates and add it to your functions.php file in your child theme and remove the plugin, but it's so lightweight I don't bother.

I can't really answer that. It depends on what you are using. Traditionally that was done via a theme. Most now with do that with a page builder that has theme building options. For me that is Beaver Builder (who first did this with Beaver Themer) but most of the pro versions of the big page builder have the ability to do this.

Thanks for watching. To add to your WordPress menu you will need to use the custom link option under menus. So it will be your domain name/name of your CPT slug. Hope that makes sense.

Sorry for the late response. I don't use Elementor Pro so can't help there.

Sadly it can't do anything like that.

@@DavidWaumsley What would you use to design the loops instead?

@@Salamaleikum80 I do it the Beaver Builder and Beaver Themer.

@@DavidWaumsley thx

Thank you and sorry I don't know. I suspect the WP customer reviews folks will be able to answer this one. It's easy to assign a taxonomy to an existing post type and years back I used this plugin and was able to assigned a custom template to output it's content, but I just don't know how it works now. Since page builders have handled dynamic content this is the kind of plugin I would now replace with form submissions to my own CPT's outputting via page builder templates .

Yes, definatly with Elementor Pro. :-)

@@DavidWaumsley Thanks for the reply! Is there any free theme builders (that you know of) that can be used to create custom post type for a page instead of archived post

@@nonchalantdon4231 Not that I know of. I have not really look though as I'm a Beaver Builder and they did this way back so I have had no need to look. Going the Block editor route I think would still need ACF Pro or maybe Toolset. All being resonable invesments.