Cornerstone’s Content Type functionality provides you with even more control over how you organize and add your content in WordPress. Learn more about what makes Content Types awesome.

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to use Content Types in Cornerstone.

Content Types are created programmatically like so:

$bk =& new CNR_Content_Type('book');
$bk->set_title('Book');

From here you can add some custom fields:

$bk->add_field('author', 'text', array('size' => 25, 'label' => 'Author'));
$bk->add_field('publisher', 'text', array('size' => 15, 'label' => 'Publisher'));

The fields need to be added to groups for display on the admin edit form:

//Create group
$bk->add_group('details', 'Details');
//Add Fields to group
$bk->add_to_group('details', array('author','publisher'));

Once you’re done adding fields, the new custom content type can be registered:

$bk->register();

Finally, the code needs to be called via the cnr_register_content_types action so that the content type is registered at the proper time. So we wrap out content type creation code into a function and hook it into the action:

function my_content_type() {
	$bk =& new CNR_Content_Type('book');
	$bk->set_title('Book');
	//Add fields
	$bk->add_field('author', 'text', array('size' => 25, 'label' => 'Author'));
	$bk->add_field('publisher', 'text', array('size' => 15, 'label' => 'Publisher'));
	//Create group
	$bk->add_group('details', 'Details');
	//Add Fields to group
	$bk->add_to_group('details', array('author','publisher'));
	//Register
	$bk->register();
}

add_action('cnr_register_content_types', 'my_content_type');

Now, when you log in to the admin, you’ll see the new custom content type in the menu

And when you add/edit a new item, you’ll have fields necessary for your custom content type

Next Step

Learn how to use the data from these fields in the next tutorial.