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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Custom Post Type Templates in WordPress Coding Your Own Custom Post Type Templates

Nathan LaBrake
Nathan LaBrake
24,088 Points
Posted by Nathan LaBrake
Nathan LaBrake
24,088 Points

If I wanted to offer a theme to a customer, would those custom fields actually show up without the plugin installed?

To clarify: If I use this plugin to develop this theme, unless I install the plugin for the client, as well as update their databases with the custom fields, those fields would not show up.

I have used themes before in which the theme had its own custom fields. How would you do that?

1 Answer

Jacobus Hindson
Jacobus Hindson
14,429 Points
Jacobus Hindson
Jacobus Hindson
14,429 Points

Hi Nathan,

Adding custom fields/post types is a little trickier to code into your template but it can be done.

If you are comfortable look into the part of the codex.