When planning website development, one important consideration is whether or not your WordPress site needs a custom post type. In this article, we’ll go over what a custom post type is and how to decide whether your WordPress website needs one. We’ll...
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The History of Custom Post Type UI
Before I begin sharing the history of Custom Post Type UI, let’s start with WordPress. Released on June 17, 2010, WordPress 3.0, “Thelonious,” is one of the most impactful WordPress releases to date. At that time, it included a number of major...
Read More The History of Custom Post Type UICustom Post Type UI Hits 1 Million Active Installations
Recently, our plugin, Custom Post Type UI (CPTUI) achieved a major milestone. Over 1,000,000 WordPress websites have actively installed CPTUI, a plugin which was born from necessity. Back in early 2010, the roadmap for the next WordPress release was being defined by...
Read More Custom Post Type UI Hits 1 Million Active InstallationsCustom Post Type UI Supports WPGraphQL
In case you are not aware, our awesome engineers at WebDevStudios (WDS) are losing their heads. No, we haven’t been offending the Queen of Hearts. I’m talking about Headless WordPress and the possibilities presented by this method of content delivery, without being...
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Recently, one of my favorite themes, Zerif Lite, was suspended from the WordPress repo. As I was reading about the issues involved, it got me thinking: Just how hard is it to migrate a widget to a Custom Post Type? According to ThemeIsle, this was...
Read More How to Migrate a Widget to a Custom Post TypeWelcome Custom Post Type UI Version 1.3.0
On Thursday, March 24th, 2016, we pushed out the latest version of Custom Post Type UI, now at version 1.3.0. This is our latest major version of the plugin. It brings in a nice number of changes that I will cover here. CPTUI...
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It’s been awhile since we last visited Custom Post Type UI on the WebDevStudios blog. We released version 1.1.0 on June 12th 2015. Not long after that, Custom Post Type UI surpassed 1 million downloads. Since then, I’ve been slowly but steadily...
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Editor’s note: The following blog post was written in 2015. We can’t guarantee the accuracy of the code and presented solutions, but we’ve chosen to keep this blog post live for those who still find the information useful. If you’re using Custom...
Read More How to Search Everything Within Custom Post TypesThe Custom Post Type UI Million Download Celebration
In the spring of 2013, I was moved into a “Plugin Czar” position within WebDevStudios. This meant that I was now in charge of the support, maintenance, and development of many of our free plugins available on our WordPress.org account. Custom Post...
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