Title: Custom Content Types
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom Content Types

 *  [jessedrelick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessedrelick/)
 * (@jessedrelick)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-content-types-1/)
 * Hi I am trying to create several new content types in one fell swoop. However,
   it seems I am having some issues when I try to create more than one custom post
   type.
 * Below I have created an array with shared arguments for register_post_type()…
   I then have the arguments unique to each post type such as ‘label’, ‘singular’
   and ‘query_var’, then call the register_post_type() with the appropriate content
   type name…
 * When I have both at the same time, they show up but the Admin page says ‘No Posts
   to display’ instead of a table with the posts, even though it says there are 
   posts. When I comment out the second register_post_type() function however the
   single post type will display that table… Am I doing something wrong? How can
   I declare multiple, similar content types as easily as possible?
 * `add_action(“init”, “price_Init”);
    function price_Init() { $arguments= array();
   $arguments[‘public’] = true; $arguments[‘show_ui’] = true; $arguments[‘_builtin’]
   = false; $arguments[‘_edit_link’] = ‘post.php?post=%d’; $arguments[‘capability_type’]
   = ‘post’; $arguments[‘hierarchical’] = false; $arguments[‘supports’] = array(‘
   title’,’author’, ‘excerpt’, ‘editor’);
 *  $arguments[‘rewrite’] = array(“slug” => ‘alert’);
    $arguments[‘query_var’] =‘
   alert’; $arguments[‘label’] = __(‘Alerts’); $arguments[‘singular_label’] = __(‘
   Alert’); register_post_type(‘alerts’, $arguments);
 *  $arguments[‘rewrite’] = array(“slug” => ‘order’);
    $arguments[‘query_var’] =‘
   order’; $arguments[‘label’] = __(‘Orders’); $arguments[‘singular_label’] = __(‘
   Order’); //register_post_type(‘orders’, $arguments);
 * }

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-content-types-1/#post-1561179)
 * Using your code:
 *     ```
       add_action("init", "price_Init");
       function price_Init()
       {
       $arguments= array();
       $arguments['public'] = true;
       $arguments['show_ui'] = true;
       $arguments['_builtin'] = false;
       $arguments['_edit_link'] = 'post.php?post=%d';
       $arguments['capability_type'] = 'post';
       $arguments['hierarchical'] = false;
       $arguments['supports'] = array('title','author', 'excerpt', 'editor');
   
       $arguments['rewrite'] = array("slug" => 'alert');
       $arguments['query_var'] = 'alert';
       $arguments['label'] = __('Alerts');
       $arguments['singular_label'] = __('Alert');
       register_post_type('alerts', $arguments);
   
       $arguments['rewrite'] = array("slug" => 'order');
       $arguments['query_var'] = 'order';
       $arguments['label'] = __('Orders');
       $arguments['singular_label'] = __('Order');
       register_post_type('orders', $arguments);
       }
       ```
   
 * I see two sections in the admin menu, one for “Alerts” and one for “Orders”.
 * Now you just need to do Add New for each of those to create different Alerts 
   and Orders.
 * Also review examples at [Function_Reference/register_post_type](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type)
 *  Thread Starter [jessedrelick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessedrelick/)
 * (@jessedrelick)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-content-types-1/#post-1561193)
 * Yes they displayed correctly in the admin menu… However, after adding new ‘Alerts’
   or ‘Orders’, if I click ‘Alerts’ or ‘Orders’ it brings me to the page where it
   usually displays all posts/pages in list view… However, when I have both the 
   list view does not display and it says ‘No posts found’ and yet says All (1) 
   | Published (1) right below the Title of the page…
 * I know there are posts there, and they will display in list view when there is
   only one content type active, but as soon as there are multiple ‘No posts found’
   comes up even though there are some.
 *  Thread Starter [jessedrelick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessedrelick/)
 * (@jessedrelick)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-content-types-1/#post-1561197)
 * Well interestingly enough it seems it is only the ‘orders’ content type that 
   is tripping things up… i have 3 other content types that work fine with each 
   other, but as soon as i add the orders content type non will display posts, and
   orders by itself won’t either… strange…
 *  Thread Starter [jessedrelick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessedrelick/)
 * (@jessedrelick)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-content-types-1/#post-1561201)
 * Well it seems that the ‘orders’ content type is what is causing the problem, 
   because when I changed all of the parameters for ‘orders’ to ‘test’ it seemed
   to work fine… kind of strange but i am assuming somewhere in the core ‘orders’
   is being used… aside from that i have no clue why it wouldn’t work!!! any feedback
   would be helpful…
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-content-types-1/#post-1561211)
 * This works okay for me:
 *     ```
       add_action("init", "price_Init");
       function price_Init()
       {
         $labels = array(
           'name' => _x('Orders', 'post type general name'),
           'singular_name' => _x('Order', 'post type singular name'),
           'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'order'),
           'add_new_item' => __('Add New Order'),
           'edit_item' => __('Edit Order'),
           'new_item' => __('New Order'),
           'view_item' => __('View Order'),
           'search_items' => __('Search Orders'),
           'not_found' =>  __('No orders found'),
           'not_found_in_trash' => __('No orders found in Trash'),
           'parent_item_colon' => ''
         );
         $args = array(
           'labels' => $labels,
           'public' => true,
           'publicly_queryable' => true,
           'show_ui' => true,
           'query_var' => true,
           'rewrite' => true,
           'capability_type' => 'post',
           'hierarchical' => false,
           'menu_position' => null,
           'supports' => array('title','author', 'excerpt', 'editor')
         );
         register_post_type('orders',$args);
   
           $labels = array(
           'name' => _x('Alerts', 'post type general name'),
           'singular_name' => _x('Alert', 'post type singular name'),
           'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'alert'),
           'add_new_item' => __('Add New Alert'),
           'edit_item' => __('Edit Alert'),
           'new_item' => __('New Alert'),
           'view_item' => __('View Alert'),
           'search_items' => __('Search Alerts'),
           'not_found' =>  __('No alerts found'),
           'not_found_in_trash' => __('No alerts found in Trash'),
           'parent_item_colon' => ''
         );
         $args = array(
           'labels' => $labels,
           'public' => true,
           'publicly_queryable' => true,
           'show_ui' => true,
           'query_var' => true,
           'rewrite' => true,
           'capability_type' => 'post',
           'hierarchical' => false,
           'menu_position' => null,
           'supports' => array('title','author', 'excerpt', 'editor')
         );
         register_post_type('alerts',$args);
   
       }
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-content-types-1/#post-1561211)
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