Title: Foreign post types
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Foreign post types

 *  [mrarrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrarrow/)
 * (@mrarrow)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/foreign-post-types/)
 * Hi, so previously I’ve been creating custom post types by hand using the register_post_type
   function. All sweet.
 * I’m now considering switching over to using Custom Content Type Manager (mainly
   for the ease of managing custom fields etc) and on the site where I’ve still 
   got some manually created CPT’s, I’m reassured to see that this plugin detects
   my existing CPT’s.
 * However, it calls them “Foreign post-types” and when I click to try and add custom
   fields etc, the plugin comes back saying “Invalid post type”.
 * So what extra does the CCTM plugin do which manually created CPT code doesn’t
   do? I’m just concerned about being locked into using anyone plugin, should this
   plugin no longer be supported in the future and/or I need to go back to coding
   stuff by hand again?
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [fireproofsocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireproofsocks/)
 * (@fireproofsocks)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/foreign-post-types/#post-3674913)
 * Re the functionality: lots of stuff. WP has many warts here. The most obvious
   thing is the standardizing of custom fields and offering various field types 
   since WP’s implementation is so simplistic as to be unusable. See the wiki for
   more info on functionality etc. [https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/](https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/)
 * Re the fields: sounds like a bug: you should be able to add custom fields to 
   foreign post types — there was a feature request maybe 6 or 10 months ago about
   that specifically. Please file a bug report in the bug tracker and I’ll address
   it as soon as I’m able.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/foreign-post-types/#post-3674913)
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