In a recent posts we took a look at WordPress custom post types – what they are, how and why you should use them. Custom post types give you new types of content, custom taxonomies give you new ways to organize your content and you can apply them both to default post types, like Posts…
A lot of overly complex themes come with a “plastic surgeon feature” that allows you to import demo content, settings or both, allowing you to make your website look like every other website out there that used it.
Asking for help properly will affect how long you’ll have to wait. Knowing what caused the problem, where to ask for help and finding out if you can fix it yourself can save you some precious time.
You might find it hard to believe, but for an experienced WordPress developer trying to see something from a new WordPress user’s perspective is almost as difficult as it is for that user to develop a theme or a plugin. Still, dropping your standard hat and putting a different one on every now and then is rarely a bad thing. So let’s take a look at one of WordPress’ most important features – post types, focusing more on the WHYs of using custom post types than the HOWs.
Want to hear the short version first? Here it is (again): don’t let your WordPress theme handle portfolio, or any other functionality. Imagine that sentence is bold, underlined and blinking at the same time, so it’s easier to memorize. Now read on to see how you can recover your lost content before Google bots hit…
