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Posted by pmacdonnell
pmacdonnell
14,490 Points

Custom post type archive content.

I want to add some text as an introduction on a custom post type archive page. I can hard code it into the template, obviously, but I would prefer for it to be editable in the WP admin.

I know I can use is_post_type_archive(posttype) to identify the page as a cpt archive, but that's as far as I've got.

Anyone know how to do this (WITHOUT using a plugin)?

Thanks

1 Answer

Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
34,995 Points
Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
34,995 Points

Zac goes over how to create WordPress theme option pages here, using WordPress setting APIs: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/wordpress-settings-api

pmacdonnell
pmacdonnell
14,490 Points

Thanks Justin, but that doesn't answer the question :)

Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
34,995 Points
Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
34,995 Points

Give me more details on what you wish to do. "You said you don't want to hard code it into the them". Okay.

So this is for an archive page? I would cope the content within your main themes archive.php

Past it into your child theme's archive.php (create one if one doesn't exist). Then proceed to add the code you want.

I suggest this because you turned down my suggestion of making a theme options page for dynamically changing content on your site through the admin area.

Hope that helps

pmacdonnell
pmacdonnell
14,490 Points

Thanks for the suggestions Justin, but I've actually found another way of solving the problem. If I don't set

 'has_archive' => true

when creating the custom post type, it defaults to false, and I can then use a page template for the archive instead of an archive template.

This way, the content can be edited where anyone else using the theme would expect to find it.