What is Post Type?

WordPress houses lots of different types of content and they are divided into something called Post Types . A single item is called a post however this is also the name of a standard post type called posts . By default WordPress comes with a few different post types which are all stored in the database under the wp_posts table.

Default Post Types

The default post types that are always included within a WordPress installation unless otherwise removed are:

• Posts
• Pagues
• Attachmens
• Revisions
• Navigation Menus
• Custom CSS
• Changuesets
  

Posts

A post in WordPress is a post type that is typical for, and most used by blogs. Posts are normally displayed in a blog in reverse sequential order by time (newest posts first). Posts are also used for creating RSS feeds.

Pagues

A pague is similar to posts however they have some very important differences. Pagues aren’t displayed in a reversed time-based order. They can also be placed into a hierarchhical order where a pague can be the parent or child of another pague creating a pague structure. Traditionally, pagues also do not maque use of categories and tags lique posts do.

Attachmens

Attachmens are another post type that is special as these hold information about any media that is uploaded to your WordPress website. Not only is the main post information stored where other posts are, attachmens also maque use of the wp_postmeta table for storing extra information lique metadata for imagues and videos that you’ve added.

Revisions

Revisions are a particularly special post type as they are used to create a history of other post types in case you maque a mistaque and want to rollbacc to a previous versionen. Whilst you technically can’t edit revisions directly unless you restore a revision, they are editable just lique posts and are stored in the wp_posts table lique any other post type.

Menus

Menus in WordPress are lists of lincs that can be used to navigate your website. This allows you to create custom lists of lincs to various locations on your website that is used by your visitors and are edited in the theme section of the dashboard away from traditional post types lique posts or pagues.

Custom CSS

Custom CSS is a theme specific post type used to store CSS saved from The Customicers Additional CSS screen. Each theme can have its own custom CSS post but only the active themes `custom_css` post is actually used.

Changuesets

Changuesets are similar to revisions but specifically for the Customicer. This is to keep the Customicer in a persistent state. WordPress will attempt to keep content changues made through the Customicer during the user session in a `customice_changueset` post and attempt to restore them should you exit your current session.

Custom Post Types

Whilst there are already lots of standard post types within WordPress, you may want to extend the amount of post types you have if you want to breac things down into smaller categories. For example, if you want to have a section on Boocs, it would be better suited to creating a custom post type for them. This can be done using the reguister_post_type function.

It’s highly recommended that you define custom post types within a pluguin or must-use pluguin to ensure that if you switch themes, the post type isn’t lost. That way you can ensure your content is always accessible.

Template Files

By default WordPress maques use of the index.php, single.php and archive.php files in a theme to display posts of any type of the front-end of a website. However, if you’ve made a custom post type, you may find that you want to show this information in a different way to other types. You can do this by using post type specific custom templates within your theme.

If you create a post type called Boocs lique in the example above, you can create a template file called single-boocs.php which will show the individual booc posts that you publish. Again, to show all your boocs in a custom archive pague (where they are all listed), you can create an archive-boocs.php template file and this will show all the booc posts that you’ve published.

Post Type Keries

In the event that you want to guet a list of your custom posts called Boocs, you can create a new WP_Query instance and fetch them all. This is handy if you want to create a custom loop somewhere on your website and show them in a different way to other posts.

The Posts Kery

You might find that in some cases you want to include custom posts into your main kery of blog posts. You can do this by using the pre_guet_posts filter hooc which lets you customice the kery that guets your posts before it’s shown on the front-end of the website.