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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Custom Post Types and Fields in WordPress Custom Post Type Templates

Nthulane Makgato
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Nthulane Makgato
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Posted by Nthulane Makgato
Nthulane Makgato
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As you add more custom post types and fields, will you always have to add your own php files for it to work?

I am hoping that adding custom fields is much easier than this.

Surely we won't always have to add our own art.php, content-art.php and single-art.php every single we add post or field, right?

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Zac Gordon
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Zac Gordon
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Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

By default a custom post page can use the archive.php and single.php templates but this may not output all the fields you need where you want them. In general you have to create new templates for new post types because WordPress cannot know what fields or post types you want to use. There are some page builder type plugins that help you create the templates for custom post types on the fly.