GigaOM Custom Post Type Factory wordpress plugin resources analysis
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| Name | GigaOM Custom Post Type Factory |
| Version | a1 |
| Author | Casey Bisson |
| Rating | 0 |
| Last updated | 2012-08-13 02:58:00 |
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Great! GigaOM Custom Post Type Factory plugin ads no tables to your Wordpress blog database.This is a convenience class and collection of methods to make creating new custom post types with their own metaboxes easy.
The general idea is to define a function that's hooked to the register_post_types action. The function defines a class for your post type that extends the GO_Cpt class. This follows a design pattern established by the modern widgets API (as introduced in WP 2.8) http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API#Developing_Widgets .
The result is a new custom post type and much easier creation and updating of custom meta associated with that post type. You'll also have a convenient object you can use to access the metadata associated with each post.
function my_customposttype()
{
class My_CustomPostType extends GO_Cpt
{
function __construct()
{
// execute the parent constructor with the name
// and definition for the custom post type
parent::__construct( $post_type_name , $post_type_definition );
}
function metabox( $post , $meta )
{
// print out the form here
//
// this method is optional, only use it if you want to
// add a metabox to your custom post type
}
function update( $new_meta , $old_meta )
{
// sanitize and validate the metadata
// then return $meta so it can be saved
//
// this method is required if a
// metabox() method is included
}
}
global $my_customposttype;
$my_customposttype = new My_CustomPostType;
}
// hook that function to the register_post_types action
add_action( 'register_post_types' , 'my_customposttype' );Backstory: defining the post type class inside the function avoids issues with loading order and fatal errors resulting from attempting to extend a class that might not exist yet. Isn't PHP awesome?
See the included hello world example: http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/go-cptfactory/trunk/example-helloworld-cpt.php
To access the meta associated with a post, you can call $my_customposttype->get_meta( $post_id );
You can easily add a method and hook to filter the_content or the_excerpt to insert custom values that may have been entered in the post meta. Simply add add_filter( 'the_content' , array( $this , 'the_content' )); in the __construct() and then define another method in the My_CustomPostType class such as:`
function the_content( $content )
{
$meta_print = print_r( $this->get_meta( get_the_ID() ) , TRUE );
return $meta_print . $content
}
`
