WordPress 5 Cookbook

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a custom post type to manage custom content types for your application:

1. Open the wpcookbookchapter7.php file of the new WPCookbook Chapter 7 plugin in the code editor.
2. Add the following code to register a new custom post type called book:

function wpccp_chapter7_book_post_type() { $labels = array( 'name' => _x( 'Books', 'Post Type General Name', 'wpccp_ch7' ), 'singular_name' => _x( 'Book', 'Post Type Singular Name',   'wpccp_ch7' ), 'menu_name' => __( 'Books', 'wpccp_ch7' ), 'name_admin_bar' => __( 'Book', 'wpccp_ch7' ), 'archives' => __( 'Book Archives', 'wpccp_ch7' ), ); $args = array( 'label' => __( 'Book', 'wpccp_ch7' ), 'description' => __( 'Book Description', 'wpccp_ch7' ), 'labels' => ...