Title: Custom Post Type Like Event
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Custom Post Type Like Event

 *  [montanan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/montanan/)
 * (@montanan)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-like-event/)
 * I am having a hard time wrapping my head around this idea of separating the theme
   from the plugin. What I want to do is create a theme that has a box which some
   call a Megatron that shows events. I want it to have the featured image in the
   back ground and the title and excerpt on top. I have this working with post that
   have the category “event” assigned. My problem is the post type does not have
   the date feature of a true event. I have searched for a plugin that creates event
   that I can then use in my home page, other that just a list or calendar.
 * I have considered creating my own solutions. This is where I am very confused.
   Because all the advice says a theme should not create a custom post type; a plugin
   should. But then the themes can’t seem to handle these post type as like a standard
   post. If I create a custom post type in my theme then all I have to do is add
   a single-my_custom_post_type.php and use the WP_query to call the post for my
   Megatron. With the plugin that is not so. The theme has to be modified to handle
   the custom post. I know I sound lost, because I am and that is why I am writing
   this.
 * I found a plugin that does many of the things I need, but it requires a theme
   created for that plugin, but then what is the point of the plugin if it is limited
   to a theme dedicated to it? Isn’t the point of creating a plugin so that it can
   working almost any theme?

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