Creating Custom Post Type in WordPress

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In this tutorial, we are going to add a custom post type of “Employees” to our WordPress theme.   We attach our own function create_employees_post_type to the “init” hook.  In there, we call the basic form of register_post_type WordPress API…

Now in dashboard, we see the Employees post type appear…

But you will notice that doesn’t have all the support that a regular post have — such as “Featured Image” and “Custom Fields” etc.

These you have to add additional options like this …

 

But it gets more sophisticated with more options in the function reference.

To display your custom post type, put something like this in your template…

 

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