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WordPress WordPress for Website Owners Adding and Editing Content Post, Pages and Custom Post Types

Posted by Amit Ghosh
Amit Ghosh
1,699 Points

Give more examples where we can use custom post types??

i am not able to understand where to use custom post types in a website construction??

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Okay, let's say you were doing a food review website.

You might want to review restaurants, recipes, product reviews, grocery store reviews. Each of these different areas would need different information about them, correct?

So for restaurants, you might want to include extra fields where you could put in the restaurants address, hours, phone number, price, etc. For recipes you might want different fields like ingredients list, location where the recipe is (url?), who's recipe it is, difficulty to make, etc. And so on.

By setting up a custom post type, you can than customize the view you see when you add a new "post". When recipe wouldn't have a phone number (probably, anyway), but a restaurant would. With a custom post type you can show a phone number field on the restaurant custom post type but not the recipe post type.

Does that help?