How to build custom post types in WordPress

WordPress is such an amazing tool, and one of the things that makes it amazing is the community. The people that are devoted to building easy, flexible and powerful plugins for WordPress. I bought a license for Toolset (affiliate link) a long time ago and have seen the plugin progress in leaps and bounds over the past few years. I recorded a video that shows how to build custom post types in WordPress, and specifically it shows how I built this page on my site.

One of the things I love about this plugin is the documentation also. You can tell this is a quality product based on the documentation, examples and support available on the site.

Some notes from the developer, Amir, after he watched my video:
[box] I have a couple of small notes:

1. You explain that it’s better to create the View from the menu and not from the table in the dashboard. You’re right. We overlooked the options for what the View is intended for and that dialog is important. We’ll add that to View plugin, so that people can create Views from the dashboard.

2. You show how to add table columns. Actually, Views can do that for you. When you select ‘table’ layout, there’s a checkbox under the radio option. Looking at that checkbox, the description text is unclear. I’m making a note to improve it.

Actually, showing how you edit the Loop Output (to add the table headings) is great. This helps people see that it’s just HTML and they can do whatever they want with it. Before your edits, folks can get the idea that this text area is filled with black magic and they should be very careful around it.[/box]

I’ll probably post another video at some point in the future that shows how to add the form so that end users can their own snippets to this list.