Ugh … my 2 cents – take it for what it’s worth!!
Custom Post Types are problematic in themes, as you are about to find out. YOu are tied to the theme. If your new theme doesn’t register the CPTs in the exact same way, even if they are named the same thing, the CPTs aren’t the same thing. They will be 2 individual batches of CPT, not linked together.
It sounds like you don’t want to mess with your own code (I register my own CPTs from within a plugin), and that’s coolio
There are a variety of CPT plugins out there which allow you to easily generate the types you need and keep them theme independent, so that you can safely switch themes.
Does that theme have a special way of displaying the post types or something? Just wondernig what specific functionality you are looking for from the CPT?
Pre-formatted custom posts is what I am looking for. Here is an example
http://standardtheme.com/demo/
When I started I did not see plugins that did this well. I was trying to avoid coding as much as possible. After a ton of coding on a theme that I don’t like I am now willing to cut bait and switch.
I guess I will look again at the plugins. Any better then others? I want to have specially formatted video, audio, link, and photo posts in addition to regular text based posts that display normally.
Have you looked for themes with post formats??
video, audio, link, and phot are some of the standard wordpress post formats
They are meant to ‘stick’ they are built into WP and stay in the database, switch themes and as long as tey support post formats, they get the specil styling of the new theme. The intent was exactly what you seem to be after. Special styling for special content, without theme dependence
http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats
A lot of themes are just starting to really hit their stride as far as the formats go.
I am just starting using:
http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/themes/favepersonal/
on my personal blog, rvoodoo.com
but if you like the idea and look for theme supporting them, you may find a lot of options
OK, I get this mixed up all the time. Custom post formats is what I meant, not post types.
Sorry
Ah, then we have been way off base!!! Ignore pretty much everything I said!
MY recommendation is above, lol! I’m pretty new to the theme, but I like it so far
I had to tweak my audio format to use my specific setup (podcasting plugin), but all in all, pretty good
It’s built on a framework, Carrington, that has had a steep learning curve for me, but if you aren’t worried to much about digging into the code – it’s a non issue
Also, REALLY good support so far (and my questions have been pre-coffee dumb ones)
