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Correct way to set up custom post type archive for child theme?

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  • Started 8 years ago by discofuel
  • Latest reply from helgatheviking
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  1. discofuel
    Member

    Can somebody please point me in the right direction on how to set up a custom post type archive page on a child theme of Thematic, and query for the custom post type.

    e.g. archive-customposttype.php

    Thanks

    Posted 8 years ago #

  2. ScottNix
    Member

    If it were me, I would modify this plugin by Devin Price, http://wptheming.com/2011/08/portfolio-post-type-plugin/

    It is currently set up for the cpt of "portfolio", but could easily be modified to what you need. The benefit is if you do the cpt as a plugin, you can retain some of the information from theme to theme vs. building into the functions php, which you could do to.

    Also he has a cpt resource list which I know I have used a bunch of times, good info, http://wptheming.com/2010/07/custom-post-type-resources/

    Posted 8 years ago #

  3. helgatheviking
    Moderator

    wp does custom post type archives by default if you set archive to true when you register the post type:

    has_archive => true

    the slug defaults to the post type name so if you registered "portfolio" your archive would be at www.yoursite.com/portfolio

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type

    you don't need a custom query at all.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Custom_Post_Types_display

    thematic will display this using its archive.php template (or failing that b/c i really can't remember if it has one right now.. index.php). you can override that by dropping an archive-portfolio.php into your child theme.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  4. discofuel
    Member

    Thanks. And when creating a new page to display this archive, what's the best way to link to this archive from the nav menu, without having to create a custom template page?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  5. helgatheviking
    Moderator

    unfortunately i don't think you can add the archive in the WP menu (even if you set the post type to allow it to be shown in the menus). you'll need a custom link i think... and point it to the archive's URL. something i hope they fix for post type and tax archives in one of the next releases

    Posted 8 years ago #

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