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

John O'Nolan john at onolan.org
Sun Feb 28 05:14:54 UTC 2010


Many thanks!

John



On 28 Feb 2010, at 05:07, Dion Hulse (dd32) wrote:

> 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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