stevem-1

I too would love to see more custom types being added.

In the 2.9 blog post listed above it says “Custom post types have been upgraded with better API support so you can juggle more types than just post, page, and attachment. (More of this planned for 3.0.)” but that’s just the page types. I’d like to see the ability to store multiple fields associated with each page.

Here is an example of my use of a custom type and what I’d like from WordPress. I wrote the back-end for this wordpress-based restaurant review website https://www.capitaldining.ca/2009/review/savana-cafe/ and unfortunately, had to do a lot of stuff outside of wordpress. You see, each post doesn’t just have the text, it has multiple fields: review, cuisine, cost, address, website, hours, etc. Each of which must be entered separately and must be displayed in the correct place.

And right now I hand-craft the code to store and retrieve these data. And the “Write a new review” page is again hand-crafted, bypassing the wordpress add a blog post page. This is always dangerous programming because one change in wordpress could cause me to have to rewrite much of my code, whereas if I could integrate better within wordpress, I’d be more immune to this effect. Plus, I could publish my plugin for others to use; as it stands now, it does too much outside of WordPress to support for general use.

I know, the beauty of WordPress is its simplicity. And I agree with that. But some sort of multiple pieces of data support (adding, editing) would be great. For my review website, I’d still expect to have to code the template to display the reviews to my liking, and to have to code the whole search widget based on my specs.