Admin UI for creating custom post types and custom taxonomies in WordPress
Custom Post Type UI provides an easy-to-use interface for registering and managing custom post types and taxonomies for your website.
Custom Post Type UI Extended
CPTUI helps create custom content types, but displaying that content can be a whole new challenge. Custom Post Type UI Extended was created to help with displaying your crafted content. View our Layouts page to see available layout examples with Custom Post Type UI Extended.
Plugin development
Custom Post Type UI development is managed on GitHub, with official releases published on WordPress.org. The GitHub repo can be found at https://github.com/WebDevStudios/custom-post-type-ui. Please use the WordPress.org support tab for potential bugs, issues, or enhancement ideas.
Screenshots
Add new post type screen and tab.
Add new taxonomy screen and tab.
Registered post types and taxonomies from CPTUI
Tools screen.
Help/support screen.
User documentation
Please see https://docs.pluginize.com/tutorials/custom-post-type-ui/
ChangeLog
1.16.0 – 2024-04-08
- Added: Added a wpml-config.xml file.
- Updated: Added “search_terms” to disallowed taxonomy list.
- Updated: Began converting our javascript away from jQuery dependency.
- Updated: tested up to WP 6.5
1.15.1 – 2023-11-08
- Fixed: Fixed up some Right-to-Left language styling issues.
- Fixed: Fixing forgot to update about page and some PHP constants for CPTUI version.
1.15.0 – 2023-11-06
- Added: Checkbox to indicate you intend to migrate a post type into CPTUI in event of matching slugs. Props @ramsesdelr
- Added: “item_trashed” post type label support from WordPress 6.3
- Updated: confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.4.
- Updated: PHP8 compatibility.
- Updated: Minimum WordPress version to version 6.3, minimum PHP version to 7.4.
1.14.0 – 2023-08-07
- Added: “Scroll to top” links in CPTUI pages. Props @aslamatwebdevstudios
- Added: Remembers toggled states for CPTUI settings panels. Props @aslamatwebdevstudios and @ramsesdelr
- Updated: Notes about slugs for both post types and taxonomies.
- Updated: Support/FAQ section with more accurate links.
1.13.7 – 2023-07-11
- Fixed: “themes” marked as reserved taxonomy slug. Causes issues with featured image metabox.
- Fixed: PHP notice around
sort parameter.
1.13.6 – 2023-05-30
- Fixed: Prevent PHP errors for dynamic WordPress hooks.
- Fixed: Prevent PHP errors from array_key_exist() checks on non arrays.
- Updated: Removed Maintainn graphic and added WP Search with Algolia Pro graphic.
- Updated: Fixed a lot of text escaping for translation-ready content.
1.13.5 – 2023-03-27
- Fixed: Security issue in CPTUI Debug Info screen.
- Fixed: Added
empty() check for can_export parameters.
- Updated: Changed textdomain loading from
plugins_loaded to init.
1.13.4 – 2022-12-16
- Fixed: Character encoding issue on CPTUI setting save in conjunction with PHP8 compatibility.
1.13.3 – 2022-12-15
- Fixed: Multiple PHP8 compatibility notices and warnings.
- Fixed: “Invalid argument for foreach” based notices around labels.
- Updated: Added taxonomy PHP global sanitization for 3rd party parameters.
1.13.2 – 2022-11-29
- Fixed: Removed forcing of underscores in place of dashes for taxonomy slugs. Yay!
- Updated: tested up to WP 6.1.1
- Updated: Documentation links in wordpress.org FAQ section.
1.13.1 – 2022-09-08
- Fixed: Various issues caused by a misplaced output for
ob_get_clean() outside of function.
1.13.0 – 2022-09-07
- Added: Notes regarding featured image and post format support also needing
add_theme_support to work.
- Fixed: Issues around double quotes and JSON export with the post type description field
- Fixed: Issues around HTML markup being removed from post type description field stemming from 1.10.x release
- Fixed: Pluralization issue with our UI for some field labels
- Updated: Code separation and quality cleanup.
- Updated: Plugin branding.
1.12.1 – 2022-05-16
- Fixed: JSON decoding issues around WP-CLI import.
1.12.0 – 2022-05-09
- Added: Tested on WordPress 6.0.
- Added: Auto-check, but not force, “page-attributes” when setting a post type as hierarchical.
- Added: “rest_namespace” parameters for both post types and taxonomies.
- Added: “register_meta_box_cb” parameter for post types.
- Fixed: undefined index notices for “can_export”.
- Updated: list of reserved taxonomy names with more that are considered reserved.
- Updated: readme descriptions and screenshots.
1.11.2 – 2022-03-21
- Fixed: Unintended reuse of
$delete_with_user variable and can_export option. Props @bogutskyy
- Fixed: PHP notices around
sort array index.
1.11.1 – 2022-03-18
- Fixed: Errors and warnings around array_key_exists() and bool values
1.11.0 – 2022-03-17
- Added: “sort” argument for taxonomies.
- Added: “can export” argument for post types
- Added: New taxonomy labels from WordPress 5.9
- Added: Custom option to set “Enter title here” value for post types.
- Added: Notes around “exclude from search” argument for post types and taxonomy term archives.
- Added: Notes around taxonomy “hierarchical” option regarding category vs tag behavior.
- Updated: Reserved post type slugs from recent WordPress releases.
- Fixed: PHP warnings around foreach loops in cptui_published_post_format_fix()
