344 – Customizing WordPress to Fit Your Needs

Announcements WooCommerce 3.1 More Development for _s Is there a plugin for that? With more than 48,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository. For more great plugins, download my 50 Most Useful Plugins eBook. Worth the Read is a very unobtrusive and light-weight reading progress bar indicator showing the user how far scrolled through the current post or page they are. Customizing WordPress to Fit Your Needs There really isn’t a hard/fast rule here. It comes down to practicality, personal preference and how your theme is built. There are some good guidelines though; if it seems like some of these apply to you, a custom post type might be in order: If you publish at least two very different types of content. For example, personal blog entries and recipes. If it would be better to visually and structurally distinguish a specific type of content. For example: personal blog and your illustration portfolio. If a type of content doesn’t fit in a chronological order. For example, a company blog and company style guides. If a content type could easily be separated out into a different website and still remain coherent. For example, a personal blog and sold products. If using categories and tags would lead to over-complicated taxonomies. For example, a personal blog and movie reviews. Generate all the necessary code with GenerateWP Check out these webinar replays for video steps on how to add this code to your website: Add Custom Post Types Customize You Theme the Right Way Build a WordPress Plugin Thank You! Thank you to those who use my affiliate links. As you know I make a small commission when someone uses my link and I want to say thank you to the following people. For all my recommended resources, go to my Resources Page View on YourWebsiteEngineer.com