Easy Content Types provides an extremely easy to use and intuitive interface for creating custom post types, taxonomies, and meta boxes.
This is the best custom post type plugin and will completely remove the difficult task of manually creating custom post types, taxonomies, and meta boxes.
Custom Post Types in Seconds
With Easy Content Types simple-to-use interface, you can create many different custom post types in just seconds. Simply choose the options you want enabled for your post type, enter a name and click “Add Post Type”. It’s that easy.
Custom post types make it exceptionally easy to create advanced organization schemes for your website. Have a movie or book review site? Place all of your reviews into a “Reviews” section, instead of a non-intuitive “reviews” category under Posts.
Custom Taxonomies to Organize and Sort Your Custom Post Types
Much like the built-in Categories and Tags, custom taxonomies allow you to define an organization within your custom post types. In just seconds you can add a “Genres” category to your movies or books review website and “categorize” all reviews into their correct Genres. It works just like the regular categories, but is so much better because you get to define the exact name your taxonomy uses.
Taxonomies can be used to organize the display of your content on the front-end of your website as well, they are not just for administration. This means that your website becomes much easier to navigate for your users!
Meta Boxes and Custom Post Meta Fields
Meta Boxes allow you to add additional information sections to your post editor. Going back to the reviews example, this means that you could easily have a section with fields for “author name”, “publication date”, “rating”, publisher”, etc. These fields can be created in just seconds and there are many types to choose from, including text inputs, drop down menus, radio buttons, check boxes, and more.
The custom meta fields can be used to display additional information, or used (if you’re a developer) to control aspects of your layout in your theme files. They are extremely powerful, and so simple to use.
For Developers and non Developers Alike
Easy Content Types has been built with developers and regular users both in mind, and has been optimized to be as easy to use as possible. It does everything for you, from registering the post types, setting up the menu icons, creating meta box fields, saving data, and even automatically creating theme template files (based off of existing theme files).
If you are not a developer, then you will love how much power and control this plugin gives you; if you are a developer, then you will absolutely fall in love with how Easy Content Types does all the heavy lifting for you. Forget about writing lines and lines of code to setup your post types, taxonomies, and meta boxes: Easy Content Types does it all for you.
Integrates perfectly with the WordPress Interface
Easy Content Types has been designed to fit perfectly into the core WordPress design. All aspects of the admin utilize stylesheets and other assets provide by WordPress core. This means that when WordPress’s UI is updated, so is Easy Content Types.
Because of how perfectly Easy Content Types fits into WordPress, you can include it in your client projects or in for-sale themes and your clients/users won’t even know it’s not part of WordPress core.
Testimonials
From PixelInPrint:
I want to add my voice as a testimony to Pippin. This is such a great Plugin which keeps getting better. What makes it truly awesome however is the support. If every dev were like Pippin life would be would be wonderful. So many ways to get in touch and unbelievably considerate and fast response to emails. You can buy this and other plugins from this guy with complete confidence! Thanks.
From kalelvz:
I wanted to leave a testimonial for this plugin. Not only is the plugin intuitive, Pippin has taken care to really consider users and make sure documentation is written out quite well. That’s a rarity with most devs I know, but Pippin is quite adept at it, with support in the form of a discussion board, tutorials and – gasp – actual emails that are responded to within an hour or so. I can’t speak enough of the support, it’s truly phenomenal, and well worth the nominal price of the plugin.
From coldfirepromotions:
This is not only a 5-star plugin with an incredible amount of utility and functionality, but the support deserves AT LEAST 5 -stars, too. It hasn’t been more than ~12 hours since I purchased this plugin and the author has already helped me solve an issue I was having. Big shout out to mordauk! If you’re thinking about purchasing this plugin, I can assure you it will be well worth the money spent!
Features
Custom Post Types
- Easy to use interface
- Register custom post types
- Edit post types after creation
- Control all post type attributes and support options
- Automatically create theme template files for post types (based off of existing theme files)
- Set the slug of custom post types
- Support for advanced permalink structures
- Query Posts Short Code included to list your custom post type entries anywhere
- Export code for custom post types for use on sites without the plugin
- Thorough documentation and explanation of post types
Custom Taxonomies
- Easy to use interface
- Register custom taxonomies
- Edit taxonomies after creation
- Control all taxonomy attributes and support options
- Automatically create theme template files for taxonomies (based off of existing theme files)
- Set the slug of custom taxonomies
- Support for advanced permalink structures
- Query Posts by custom taxonomy short code included to show posts from a taxonomy anywhere you want
- Export code for custom taxonomies for use on sites without the plugin
- Thorough documentation and explanation of taxonomies
Custom Meta Boxes
- Easy to use interface
- Register custom meta boxes
- Edit meta boxes after creation
- Complete meta box placement control
- Choose the post type(s) that receives the meta box
- Add unlimited fields to meta box
- Drag and drop field ordering
- 10 field types
- Text
- Textarea – with rich editor option
- Select
- Radio
- Checkbox
- Datepicker
- jQuery UI Slider
- File Upload
- Repeatable text input
- Repeatable upload field
- Edit fields after creation
- Add descriptions to fields
- Automatic shortcodes for every field
- Automatically display all meta fields
- Export all meta boxes and fields
User Access Control
- Control which user levels have access to the custom content type menu
- Control which users can create custom post types
- Control which users can create custom taxonomies
- Control which users can create custom meta bxoes
Nothing is Hidden – Screenshots
Video Demonstration
Requires WordPress 3.2+
Due to some of the advanced features of this plugin, version 3.2 or later of WordPress is required. If you are running an older version, then you should seriously consider upgrading so that you can take advantage of the new great features in WordPress 3.3, and Easy Content Types!
Tutorials on Advanced Usage of the Plugin
For additional help in using this plugin, please refer to the Displaying Content with Easy Content Types tutorial series.
Create Your Own Custom Meta Field Types
Easy Content Types includes an easy-to-use API for registering custom field types. If you are a premium subscriber to this site, then you have immediate access to two in-depth tutorials I have produced on the subject:
Registering Custom Meta Field Types for Easy Content Types – learn about how to register your own custom meta field types.
Making a Simple Rating Field Type in Easy Content Types – follow an realistic example of a custom field type you might create.
Support
If you’re looking for technical support for this plugin, please use my dedicated support forum
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- ECPT: Bonus Meta Field Types Add-On
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Hi,
I’ve used Easy Custom Content Types on multiple sites. It works great! But on one site I’m trying to setup WooCommerce. If I go to a product category page when Easy Custom Content Types is also active, it doesn’t list any products. If I disable Easy Custom Content Types it displays products.
I really need to keep both plugins active. Do you know a way around this without having to export my settings from ECCT, pasting it in my theme’s functions.php file, uploading it, then deactivating ECCT? This makes future changes more difficult. Thanks.
Go to Content Types > Settings and check the box for “Disable Taxonomy Archive Fix”.
Hi there,
Can you tell me if I can create a post type like a magazine page with several images that (given they are the right size) once uploaded can be placed in the template so for example, featured_image1 would be the header image and featured_image2 would appear to the left of the second paragraph etc. by using custom post types?
Thanks
Yes you can, though the actual layout you described is not created by the plugin. The plugin gives you the ability to create and store the data; it does not give you concise control over how it is displayed. That has to be done through your theme’s template files.
Thanks for the response, yes I realise that I would need to create a custom template and I got the impression that your plug-in would help build the code (custom type) that would be required to populate data for the custom template, is that correct?
Hope these aren’t silly questions as this is a bit out of my depth. Also if you have a template that takes a set of featured_images ex 1 to 5 and uses them for a slideshow header would you be able to have them displayed 1 to 5 on the right hand side instead of the common single featured_image thumbnail?
Sorry to pollute this with a different topic but do I understand correctly that you have a premium members area with training and tutorials? I’m really interested about only loading certain scripts and CSS styles on certain pages and types of pages. Is info on speeding things up like that included in the available content?
Thanks
Have you tried:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/css-javascript-toolbox/
My plugin manages the data storage. It includes examples of how to retrieve data in the documentation.
You can do that with the images, but it has little to nothing to do with the plugin, simply because that’s not something controlled by ECPT.
I do have several tutorials related to conditional script loading.
Thanks Luka and Pippin,
I’ll be signing up then for the courses then (and getting your plugin of course). I use the Genesis framework so Luka if the plugin does what it says without any CSS/Javascript conflicts then that sounds great!
John