Creating & Managing Post Types with BuddyBlog Pro • BuddyDev Help Center

In this post, you are going to learn about:-

Creating Post Type:-

That will take you to the new post type creation screen.

You will see the basic options(Advance settings are hidden by default) like below

Basic settings part 2:-

Title – It is for your convenience(to remember what the post type is, it is not used for registering post type)
Post type slug:- It is the unique post type identifier, must be lower case, less than 20 characters and without any space.
Plural label:- The plural name for post type e.g. Movies or Books
Singular Label:- The singular name for the post type e.g. Movie, Book etc.
Taxonomies:- Associate one or more taxonomies with this post type.
Is Public:- Make this post type public. It will be visible from front end to everyone
Is Hierarchical:- Will the content be hierarchical like page?
Is Active:- Toggle to enable/disable the registration for this post type. You need to keep it on to use this post type.
Show Advance Settings:- Toggle to enable advance settings. If you tick it, you will see a tabbed interface with advance settings as below

Advance Settings:- General

The “General” tab allows you to define the optional description. You can also enable/disable the supported features here.

Advance Settings:- Labels

Allow bulk editing all labels for post type.
On a new Post Type screen, if you change the Singular/Plural Label, the bulk options will be automatically updated.
On edit Post Type screen if you changed the singular or plural label, you can use “Regenerate” button to regenerate the labels from current Singular/Plural label.
The “Clear” button allows you to clearing all the label fields.
You can use this screen to update the bulk labels as you please(you can update entries manually if you need to do that).

Advance Settings:- Visibility

It allows you to control the various visibility options

Show UI:- Do you want to enable the Post Type’s UI in admin to creating/managing content(generally, you should enable it).
Show In Menu:- By default it is shown as top level admin menu. You can move it as sub menu by using custom option and specifying the slug of parent menu item.
Menu Position:- Allows you to control the location where this post type’s menu appears in admin(smaller integer means higher priority).
Show In Admin Bar:- Do you want to see the Post types under the “New” dropdown menu in admin bar?
Show in Nav Menus:- Do you want the post type entries to appear in nav menus for selection?
Exclude from search:- Hides the post type from search.

Advance Settings:- Rewrite & Permalink

Permalink Rewrite:- You can opt to use the post type slug as base in post permalink(e.g http://example.com/event/some-slug) or you can specify a custom slug or you can disable permalink.
Has Archive:- Will this post type have an archive page on front end?
Publicly Queryable:- Will this post type be queryable from front end(accessible to everyone).
Query Var:- If you are not a developer, ignore it. It is used in custom queries.

Advance Settings:- Permissions

You can set custom capabilities name. It will help create custom capability(e.g edit_books). It is not recommended unless you know what you are doing. Use the default which maps cap to ‘post’
Can Export:- is this post type exportable from tools.
Delete with user:- Should the user content form this post type be deleted when a user is deleted

Advance Settings:- REST API

Whether to enable in REST API or not.

Click on the “Post Type” in the BuddyBlog Pro menu
You will see a screen that will list all the post types that you have created, and will allow to edit them as well as create new post types.

You can

Sort the post types by title, slug(actual post type identifier), activate state(enabled or not) and if it is private or public and by status(publish/draft etc)
You can also clone a post type’s configuration to create another post type by hovering over the row actions as shown below

* Only a post type which is set as “Active” and is published, will be registered.