I’ve just added a new Custom Post Type to my WordPress site.
When I go to create a new post though, the only option I have to edit is “Slug”. Normally with a regular post you would have Format, Categories, Post Tags, Featured Image, Excerpy, Send Trackbacks, Custom Fields, Discussion, and Author.
How do I get all of these options to show up for me under a Custom Post Type?
This is the code I used to create my custom post type.
function create_post_type() {
register_post_type( 'intrigue_faculty',
array(
'labels' => array(
'name' => __( 'Faculty' ),
'singular_name' => __( 'Faculty' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Faculty Member' ),
'new_item' => __( 'Add Faculty' ),
'add_new' => __( 'Add Faculty Member' ),
'view_item' => __( 'View Faculty Profile' ),
'not_found' => __( 'No faculty members found' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Faculty Members' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Faculty Member Profile' ),
'description' => __( 'A collection of the profiles for Intrigue Dance Intensive faculty members.' )
),
'public' => true,
'menu_position' => 5,
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'faculty')
)
);
}
add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type' );
Did you add post-type support for those features, via add_post_type_support()
?
Use this format:
<?php add_post_type_support( $post_type, $supports ) ?>
The $supports
argument is an array, that can include the following strings:
- ‘title’
- ‘editor’ (content)
- ‘author’
- ‘thumbnail’ (featured image) (current theme must also support Post Thumbnails)
- ‘excerpt’
- ‘trackbacks’
- ‘custom-fields’
- ‘comments’ (also will see comment count balloon on edit screen)
- ‘revisions’ (will store revisions)
- ‘page-attributes’ (template and menu order) (hierarchical must be true)
- ‘post-formats’ add post formats
Note that support for these features can be registered directly, via the register_post_type()
call, using the supports
argument-array key. See this abbreviated version of the Codex example:
<?php
add_action('init', 'codex_custom_init');
function codex_custom_init()
{
$labels = array();
$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_in_menu' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'has_archive' => true,
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => null,
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments')
);
register_post_type('book',$args);
}
?>
EDIT
Using your own code:
<?php
function create_post_type() {
register_post_type( 'intrigue_faculty',
array(
'labels' => array(
'name' => __( 'Faculty' ),
'singular_name' => __( 'Faculty' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Faculty Member' ),
'new_item' => __( 'Add Faculty' ),
'add_new' => __( 'Add Faculty Member' ),
'view_item' => __( 'View Faculty Profile' ),
'not_found' => __( 'No faculty members found' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Faculty Members' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Faculty Member Profile' ),
'description' => __( 'A collection of the profiles for Intrigue Dance Intensive faculty members.' )
),
'public' => true,
'menu_position' => 5,
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'faculty'), // Don't forget this comma
// ADD ME HERE; LIST WHATEVER FEATURES FOR WHICH YOU WANT TO ADD SUPPORT
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments')
)
);
}
?>
add_action( ‘init’, ‘create_post_type’ );