[wp-hackers] Custom Post Types and pending incompatibilities

[Andrew Nacin]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Kevin Newman <CaptainN at unfocus.com> wrote:

> In the mean time, if plugin devs want to take a auto-disciplined approach,
> they could prefix thusly: register_post_type(__class__ .
> '_your_custom_post_type_id').
>

The names of post types are limited to 20 characters in the DB. That is
guaranteed to be silently trimmed.