Create Custom Post Types WordPress Tutorial – CPT UI Plugin

in this video we'll be checking out the custom post type UI plug-in what this allows you to do is easily and very quickly create a custom post type within the WordPress dashboard so you can hold and display different kinds of information that don't come built into WordPress so for example we have a site that we're working on that's a seminars website for property management what this site has is events and different speaking opportunities now we've tried the events calendar which you'll see right here events and it doesn't quite fit what we need so instead of rolling a whole custom solution with different kinds of code we can simply install a plug-in called CPT UI and we can add a custom post type similar to events if you don't know already posts is a custom post type so posts typically holds your blog or your news things about your company or yourself what we're gonna do in this tutorial is add another custom post type here that says seminars which will allow us to better organize seminars for this particular page and also just so you know it doesn't have to be seminars it could be properties it could be books it could be cars it can be staff we've even used this for job postings etc so it could really be anything you want in the backend of WordPress that you want to organize and display in a different kind of way all right so that's quite the mouthful but if you have any questions do let us know in the comments below or on our website pres Avenue comm slash ask we'd love to create a video just like this for you alright so to get started we've already logged into the backend of this website we've gone to plugins and we're gonna go over to add new what we're looking for is the custom post type UI and you don't have to spell it all out you just do CPT space UI and you'll see this orange box here plus active installations pretty good for me created by a great company the reason I like bigger companies creating some of these is they're actively updated and fixed when problems come up we're gonna go ahead and hit activate and what it's gonna do is create a menu option on the back end and we have a welcome screen to start so as of this recording we're on one point six point one but between versions that aren't huge changes so once you learn it once you've pretty much got it so they had to talk about everything else this is everything else they creates a little ads at the bottom what we're gonna do first is go to add / edit post types so I'll go ahead and click that I have a caching plug-in called WP rocket so it's asking to clear it I'm just gonna ignore that for now we'll start at the very top and it says basic settings post type slug so we're gonna call this one seminars it'll all be lower case if you put any spaces it'll be an underscore and then we add a seminar so you just really just fill this out put in the singular and the reason that's asking for these is if we clicked add post type right now it would add a menu item on the side here and then wherever you're adding multiple seminars and have the s and the singular and have just seminar so if I was editing a particular seminar it say edit seminar without the s etc so that's why it's asking for these two some people name these differently so add new seminar events with an S or seminar event singular again further down you can put a description a lot of these you don't need and this plug-in can seem very daunting at first because there are a million options but what it does is it takes this word seminar and it plugs it in where it says movies so under menu name it'll say in my movies all movie are sorry all seminars my my seminars add new seminar if you wanted to say something different you would fill it in this box so add new event seminar slightly redundant but just to show you edit items so I usually skip through all of these and then it comes down to settings so public true I leave all of these on unless I do need to change them so exclude from search I don't know why you'd exclude it if it's gonna be a public post type but you can you can do that here sometimes I change that depending on what it is and how I'm using it coming down further the menu position so this one I always change you have options five through a hundred and sucking about the ones over here so it will all start with five just to show you where it gets placed in the left-hand menu and and then the menu icon it uses - icons so I'm going to search - icon and it brings us to the wordpressorg page and I can choose what kind of icon I want in my menu so let's see if there's one that's appropriate I'll do this one right here this group so I highlight - ekans - groups and I copy it I go back here and I paste this in if you use another set of icons you can put in the URL here or you can choose an image from the library supports I usually leave all this on so it supports the title the main editor and this can work with the classic editor or Gutenberg it's entirely up to you and what you're using at this point and a featured image I always leave these ones on if you need additional supports go ahead and check them you can add custom stuff here and then you can allow different categories and we'll add a taxonomy shortly so I'm going to go ahead and hit add post type alright so here we are we have seminars on the left-hand side I remember we did the position as so if you don't like it here you would just click back to edit post types instead of add new post type and select seminars or whatever it is you created cars books etc sometimes other plugins will show up in here so if you have one for say testimonials or something you may see that in here so just keep in mind what you're editing so I did seminar so I'll come down here way down and I'll do position six well I'll do a higher one will do position nine come to the bottom hit save and now when this reloads you'll see it's now under this events one so we have events and then we have seminars and I actually wanted above but I just want to show you how to change that position so say it was a setting or something you could put it way down at the bottom if it wasn't needed all the time so there were at seminars so now when I click seminars it looks similar to the posts page sorry I had it cut over to get a hoodie because right now the polar vortex has hit the USA and it's cold even with the heat on anyway so here we are at seminars you can see that title right here that I change add new events seminar and then a list of seminars which there are none because I haven't added any and then over on the left hand side again it says all seminars and then add new event seminar and again there's that title so I can click here or here or under this as well I can go to new and then seminar so it takes that singular label at the top here and again all this can be changed via the plugin so going to go ahead and hit add new this site has the classic editor installed I'll turn on Gutenberg and show you how that looks as well it works of both ways basically the title similar to Gutenberg will the title and then you'll have the Gutenberg editor here instead of the classic post editor that you see so we're gonna go ahead and just name this one let's see let's do Colorado seminar and then the details can go here and then if you see here the permalink it has the website slash seminars which is the plural and the slug that we edited in the cpt UI plug-in then it has Colorado - seminar so you can see that here if you have Yoast SEO it all just shows up at the bottom and that's it so I'm gonna go ahead and hit publish just to show you what this looks like if I view the post it's very simple and we'll do a different thing on how to display this better but this is what the site looks like when you post anything so it says the title who posted it that's not me that's the person that owns the site the date this is social where warfare adds this in and then Colorado seminar this adds it at the bottom typically there be long-form content here so you wouldn't see these stacked up right on top of each other and then this is in the below post hooked in area so I'm going to go ahead and go back to edit seminar and then go back to all seminars and you'll see here there's that Colorado seminar there so again this is how to create a custom post type within WordPress with the cpt UI plugin if you have any questions about this plug-in and how to use it how to modify different settings that we might not have talked about or anything else related to WordPress please do let us know in the comments below if this video is helpful I would love a thumbs up additionally hit that red subscribe button with a little bell next to it so you can see more great WordPress tutorials just like this one stay warm during the polar vortex today and also thank you so much for watching [Music]