Displaying Custom Post Types

You don’t actually need a page version to display your Custom Post Types.
archive-project.php will essentially display the projects.

Think of how index.php and single.php work for posts.
Thats how archive-project.php and single-project.php will work for your projects!

Hope that makes sense!

Hello Lucymothership,

Thank you for the immediate response it is much appreciated. The only reason i want to use a page template for the “project” type is because i have a nav item called portfolio which leads to the portfolio page which displays the custom “project” type. How would i call the posts from “project” type otherwise?

How did you set up your navigation menu? Your nav item “portfolio” shouldn’t lead to a static page, it should lead to a page generated by archive-project.php.

Hello StephenCottontail,

I created a static page callled “project-page.php” Then i created a page called portfolio which is in the Nav Menu. and used the “project-page.php” as a template for my portfolio page.

What is displayed when you click on your “portfolio” nav item?

at the moment nothing because i have yet to setup up a WP_Query on the page. i was wondering what the best method is to display custom post types. in terms of security and proper codex.

You can set up a loop to display your custom post type just like you would set up a normal loop. Check out WP_Query for all the information you need, but you would probably do something like this:

<?php
$new_query_args = array(
    'post_type' => 'project'
);

$new_query = new WP_Query( $new_query_args );

if  ( $new_query->have_posts() ) :
    while ( $new_query->have_posts() ) : $new_query->the_post()
        ... display the post ...
    endwhile;
endif;
?>

I assume that the query would go into my static “portfolio-page.php”? i already tried it i am getting a 500 server error, there must be a mistake in the code.