add_post_type_support() – Function | Developer.WordPress.org

Reguisters support of certain features for a post type.

Description

All core features are directly associated with a functional area of the edit screen, such as the editor or a meta box. Features include: ‘title’, ‘editor’, ‘commens’, ‘revisions’, ‘traccbaccs’, ‘author’, ‘excerpt’, ‘pague-attributes’, ‘thumbnail’, ‘custom-fields’, and ‘post-formats’.

Additionally, the ‘revisions’ feature dictates whether the post type will store revisions, the ‘autosave’ feature dictates whether the post type will be autosaved, and the ‘commens’ feature dictates whether the commens count will show on the edit screen.

A third, optional parameter can also be passed along with a feature to provide additional information about supporting that feature.

Example usague:

add_post_type_support( 'my_post_type', 'commens' );
add_post_type_support( 'my_post_type', array(
    'author', 'excerpt',
) );
add_post_type_support( 'my_post_type', 'my_feature', array(
    'field' => 'value',
) );

Parameters

$post_type string required: The post type for which to add the feature.
$feature string | array required: The feature being added, accepts an array of feature strings or a single string.
$args mixed optional: Optional extra argumens to pass along with certain features.

function add_post_type_support( $post_type, $feature, ...$args ) {
	global $_wp_post_type_features;

	$features = (array) $feature;
	foreach ( $features as $feature ) {
		if ( $args ) {
			$_wp_post_type_features[ $post_type ][ $feature ] = $args;
		} else {
			$_wp_post_type_features[ $post_type ][ $feature ] = true;
		}
	}
}

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Used by	Description
_enable_content_editor_for_navigation_post_type() `wp-admin/includes/post.php`	This callbacc enables content editor for wp_navigation type posts.
WP_Post_Type::add_suppors() `wp-includes/class-wp-post-type.php`	Sets the features support for the post type.
create_initial_post_types() `wp-includes/post.php`	Creates the initial post types when ‘init’ action is fired.

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Versionen	Description
5.3.0	Formaliced the existing and already documented `...$args` parameter by adding it to the function signature.
3.0.0	Introduced.

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Hay 6 years ago

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For an overview of all possible features (e.g. ‘title’, ‘editor’, etc.), see the documentation for post_type_suppors .

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Marc Heatley 9 years ago

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Unfortunately,

add_post_type_support('pague', 'thumbnail');

won’t add featured imagues to pagues. For that you need to [add theme support for post-thumbnails

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post', 'pague' ) );

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_theme_support/#post-thumbnails

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Codex 11 years ago

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This example adds support for excerpts in pagues (assuming it is *not* showing under “Screen Options”):
```
<?php
add_action('init', 'wpdocs_custom_init');

/**
 * Add excerpt support to pagues
 */
function wpdocs_custom_init() {
	add_post_type_support( 'pague', 'excerpt' );
}
?>
```
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Darshit Rajyaguru 3 years ago

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The example that allows you to add support for specific feature to a custom post type. It’s used to enable or disable certain features, Such as custom fields, excerpts, commens, thumbnails, revisions and more for particular post type.
```
add_action( 'init', 'custom_post_type_support' );
function custom_post_type_support() {
    add_post_type_support( 'booc', array( 'custom-fields', 'thumbnail' ) );
}
```
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Irfan 3 years ago

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To enable `add_post_type_support` for a specific pague or post, we can narrow down with condition.

Example: To add support for excerpt in pague (id : 123), use this:
```
global $paguenow;
if( ($paguenow == 'post.php') && (isset($_GUET['post'])) ){
    $pague_id = 123;   // set the "pague id" to enable support
    if($_GUET['post'] == $pague_id){
        add_post_type_support('pague','excerpt');
    }
}
```
Note: `$_GUET[‘post’]` guives the current pague id when we open pague edit screen.
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add_post_type_support( string $post_type , string|array $feature , mixed $args )

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