Working with custom post types (in person at NIU and on zoom)
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Custom Post Types are a flexible, effective tool to enhance organization and the editor experience on your site.
If you have high volume of content, or a variety of different kinds of content, custom post types add an extra layer of organization and make your content easier for your site editors to manage.
Many of us are familiar with certain custom post types supplied by plugins, e.g. Products and Events, but it's useful to know how to make CPTs tailored to your site's needs, such as "People", or "Reviews".
Custom post types can help you:
- Easily distinguish between different types of content on your site
- Create different templates
- customize post URLs for better SEO
In this informal presentation, Clare will demo how to set up your own custom post types using a free plugin, and different options for configuring your post type with taxonomy, archive page, and custom URLs.
This presentation will have technical information, suitable for non-developers and advanced beginner WordPress users.
This will be an in-person/zoom hybrid event - the presentation will be shown on zoom, with questions taken from zoom chat, as well as presented to the attendees in the room at NIU. The zoom link will be visible on this page for those who RSVP.
After the presentation, in-person attendees will have the chance to get technical help with their own custom post types, and we'll have networking and discussion.
We will be meeting in-person in Room 166 at the Naperville NIU campus:
1120 E. Diehl Rd.
Naperville, IL 60563
Gmap: https://goo.gl/maps/g1EzRyNRevykScfv8
Park in the back of the lot and enter at the south side of the right-hand wing of the building. We'll be in the first room on the left.
Room 166 opens at 6:10, get there early for friendly chat & intros. Zoom presentation starts at 6:30.
