[wp-testers] Custom Post Types in WP3.0

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

You might be interested in these tickets:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12105
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12385

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:52:10 +1100, John O'Nolan <john at onolan.org> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I've been testing out the new Custom Post Type features in WP3.0 and
> have a couple of queries that maybe a couple of you could help me out
> with:
>
> First / biggest / most obvious query is are custom templates going to
> be supported? I'm talking about the exact same functionality as
> "custom page templates" present in the "pages" section. I searched
> high and low through the Trac ticket but couldn't find anything
> relating to this, and it seems like quite a big thing to leave out.
> This functionality by it's very nature suggests that the content it
> holds will be different from your standard post, and will therefor
> need to be styled differently!
>
> The other thing is the permalinks, say I'm making a design portfolio
> and I add a custom post type of "portfolio", and then add "my client"
> to it. With pretty permalinks turned on (to /%name%/) the url becomes:
>
> domain.com/portfolio/my-client/
>
> however,
>
> domain.com/portfolio/
>
> returns a 404.
>
> Should this not default to category type functionality, acting as a
> parent page for all posts inside the "portfolio" custom post type?
>
> Lemme know if I'm missing anything!
>
> Cheers
>
> John O'Nolan
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