WordPress API
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Understanding Custom Post Types
WordPress is renowned for its flexibility and ease of use, and one of its most powerful features is the ability to create Custom Post Types (CPTs). These allow you to extend WordPress beyond its default functionality, transforming it into a versatile content management system (CMS) for almost any purpose. In this article, we’ll explore what Custom Post Types are, why they’re useful, and how to create and manage them. What Are Custom Post Types? By default, WordPress comes with several built-in post types, including: A Custom Post Type, as the name suggests, is a user-defined post type that expands beyond these defaults. For example, if you’re building a website for…
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Actions and Filters (aka Hooks)
Actions and filters provide a great way to hook functionality to any event. Moreover, plugins can define their own events. In this article we discuss how all that is accomplished.