WordPress 5 Cookbook

Managing advanced data with custom post types

The two default post types in WordPress are called posts and pages. These two post types are intended to be used for blog posts and build pages that display information about the site. In modern sites, developers are using pages to provide highly dynamic content, interactive features, and data capturing through shortcodes added to a page. In real-world applications, we need to manage different types of content and hence the use of normal posts is not practical. The following are some examples of the use of content types in real-world applications:

• Job submission and listing in a job management application
• Courses and lesson management in a learning management system
• Products and orders for an ...