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Author: joedolson

My Content Management creates a suite of custom post types, each with an appropriate custom taxonomy and a set of commonly needed custom fields. The purpose of the plug-in is to provide a single common interface to create commonly needed extra content tools.

Almost every web site I work on requires some kind of special content: testimonials, frequently asked questions, lists of staff -- you name it. There are plug-ins available for almost all of these - but they're all different. Different interfaces, different ways to display information, different default styling for how they're shown on the page.

I wrote this plug-in so that I have all of these features available to me in a single installation: every one with the same interface, with common methods for displaying on a site. Each custom post type also includes a few commonly used custom fields available in templates. (e.g., a phone number field for listings of staff members.)

There's no default styling outside of whatever your theme offers for the elements used. There is default HTML, but it can be 100% replaced through the included templating system, or by creating your own theme template documents to display these specific content types.

All content can be displayed using the shortcode [my_content type='custom_post_type']. Other supported attributes include:

• display (custom, full, excerpt, or list)
• taxonomy (name of associated taxonomy: required to get list of terms associated with post; include a term to limit by term)
• term (term within named taxonomy)
• count (number of items to display - default shows all)
• order (order to show items in - default order is "menu_order" )
• direction (whether sort is ascending, "ASC", or descending, "DESC" (default))
• meta_key ( custom field to sort by if 'order' is "meta_value" or "meta_value_num" )
• template ( set to a post type to use a template set by that post type. If "display" equals "custom", write a custom template. )
• offset (integer: skip a number of posts before display.)
• id ( comma separated list of IDs to show a set of posts; single ID to show a single post.)

A search form for any custom post type is accessible using the shortcode [custom_search type='custom_post_type']

You can create a site map for a specific post type and taxonomy using the [my_archive type='custom_post_type' taxonomy='taxonomy'] shortcode. Other supported attributes include all those above, plus:

• exclude (list of comma-separated taxonomy terms to exclude from the site map)

The "id" attribute is not supported in the [my_archive] shortcode. Because that would be silly.

Translations are always welcome! The translation files are included in the download.