I'm a newbie in WordPress. I have created a custom post type for videos but I do not know how to display the post type in a page. For example I want when a user adds a video, he won't have to select a video template when publishing the video and when they open the published video, the page opens up with a video player instead of opening a page. I want something like a custom page with the video player ready that all I have to do is give the video player the url for the video.Already have the code for the video player. How can I do this?
3 Answers
To make a default template file for all your custom post type posts or pages, you can name your template file single-{your-cpt-name-here}.php
or archive-{your-cpt-name-here}.php
and it will always default to this when viewing these posts or pages.
So for example in single-video.php
you could put:
<?php query_posts( 'post_type=my_post_type' ); ?>
or instead make a custom query to shape your desired output:
<?php
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'my_post_type',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => -1
);
$posts = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $posts -> have_posts() ) {
while ( $posts -> have_posts() ) {
the_content();
// Or your video player code here
}
}
wp_reset_query();
?>
In your custom loop like the example above, there's lots of available template tags (like the_content
) to choose from in Wordpress.
Write Code In Functions.php
function create_post_type() {
register_post_type( 'Movies',
array(
'labels' => array(
'name' => __( 'Movies' ),
'singular_name' => __( 'Movie' )
),
'public' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'Movies'),
)
);
Now Write This Code Where You Want To show
<?php
$args = array( 'post_type' => 'Movies', 'posts_per_page' => 10 );
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
the_title();
echo '<div class="entry-content">';
the_content();
echo '</div>';
endwhile;
?>
After you created the CPT, do this for showing single posts of your CPT:
- Duplicate the
single.php
file in your template and rename it likesingle-{post_type}.php
(eg.single-movie.php
) - Remember to flush the permalinks from WordPress!
You can get more details from this post
Now if you want to show a list of CPT you can use get_posts() with args:
$args = array( ... 'post_type' => 'movie' )
Check this post for further details.