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Hi @joseribeiro

All of this sounds like a category archive with a customized archive template file. Only thing I’m not completely sure about is if this is going to be the out of box “category” taxonomy or a custom taxonomy that you’re referring to as “category”.

The template customization is going to be on your plate, but CPTUI can definitely get the post type and any extra taxonomies registered for you.

Edit: note that I’m differentiating between a page that you’re doing a custom query for these brands on, and using the actual categories for the archives.

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by Michael Beckwith.

Hi Michael, thanks for the quick reply.

I’m not a developer and to be honest i got completely lost on your reply. Can you explain it for a communications guy?

Thank you

You’re dealing with taxonomies for the most part. “category” and “tag” that WordPress creates out of box, are both taxonomies. They allow you to create your own taxonomies as well. “categories” and “tags” and any custom taxonomy you create all get terms created. A category of “comedy” is a term, a tag of “watched” is a term, in an example post type of “movies”

Terms in taxonomies get archives, where you can visit URLs that show all posts that have the given term. Say you wanted to see all of the comedies that have been watched. You visit mysite.com/category/comedy/ and it shows all of those posts.

Your active theme can have template files specific for these archives, that you can customize any which way you want.

Your bullet point here:

Display BRAND posts from category X on a page titled category X and BRAND posts from category Y on a page titled category Y

More or less described category X and Y’s archives to the letter, pun intended ??

We still have zero control over this item though:

select how to display the content on those pages – number of columns, post order, hover effect…

Because we don’t influence the themes at all with CPTUI.

Then with:

automatically update those category pages as soon as new BRAND posts are added to the respective categories x or Y

That’s how the archives work out of box. Once a new brand post is added with the appropriate category, they’ll just automatically show up in the archive.

Hi again,

First of all, thank you for taking your time explaining this.

So, if I’m getting it right, creating a custom post, add categories and create archive pages to display the posts for each category is not a problem, can be made with CPT UI, but I would need something else to create the layout of those archive pages – is this right?

In my scenario, would the “extended” version of the plugin https://pluginize.com/plugins/custom-post-type-ui-extended/?utm_source=cptui-desription&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=wporg be what I’m missing?

Thanks

Extended isn’t going to offer the robustness I’m assuming you’re needing as it provides some general layout options and anything more would need customization.

I suspect something like Divi Theme Builder or similar may have the extra robustness you’re seeking, and from what I’ve heard/googled, it can be used to handle category archives.