#wordpress 2021-08-15

2021-08-15 UTC
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cambridgeport90[ Does anyone use either the custom type UI or custom type UI extended plugins on their sites? I'm thinking of it... though not sure how to actually go about it and where I could actually validate a use for it.
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GWG cambridgeport90[: What is the use case?
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cambridgeport90[ I honestly don't even know what I would do with it... but I was thinking of potentially using it to create some of the post types we have been talking about, but haven't implemented yet. Follows, for example.
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GWG cambridgeport90[: I went down the road of custom post types. I ended up going with a taxonomy for types.
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cambridgeport90[ What is the difference?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "difference" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "difference is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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GWG Okay. A custom taxonomy is like a tag, or a category in WordPress.
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GWG So, Post Kinds is a taxonomy...it is a tag attached to the post type.
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GWG I use that to generate archives.
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GWG I've been slowly moving the back end of Post Kinds away from that though to be a bit more flexible.
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cambridgeport90[ Interesting. I probably need to read through the documentation on the core framework, as well. That's probably part of the reason why I'm confused sometimes.
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GWG A custom post type in WordPress is where the type of post, the permalinks it uses, etc are completely separate form the post behavior.
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GWG It would more accurately be known as a custom content type
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cambridgeport90[ Interesting.
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GWG WordPress has a custom post type for menus
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GWG For revisions
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GWG Etc
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GWG So, what I decide was the top-level microformats properties would be represented by post types.
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GWG So, h-entry = the post post type.
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cambridgeport90[ Apparently post with a lower case p is an internal object that Wordpress uses for everything. I never knew that.
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GWG That is correct. That means that the Indieweb types of posts(which I called kinds to avoid confusion on terminology) are represented by properties.
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GWG So, if you use micropub to post to WordPress, the kind is set based on the properties in the submission.
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GWG You don't expressly set it.
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cambridgeport90[ Ah. So that plugin I mentioned earlier probably wouldn't do a lot of good for what I'm doing.
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GWG If I were to move away from the current UI into something like Gutenberg, which people want me to do, I would likely switch that same methodology. The post kind taxonomy would be set based on the blocks you put in
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cambridgeport90[ <GWG> "If I were to move away from..." <- Only thing with that... most blind folks have been advised right now to avoid Gutenberg... though the damn thing looks freaking amazing, but it so far has its issues with screen readers.
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