Better Custom Post Types

...and taxonomies too!

It's a plugin for your plugins.

It's all the functionality you need to build robust custom post types and taxonomies, and nothing you don't.

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How to use it

1. Install this plugin like ya do, either as a normal plugin or as an MU (must-use) plugin. We'd recommend the latter so it's guaranteed to be active — some pretty ugly things can happen if your plugin depends on it and it gets deactivated.
2. Develop your plugin(s) separately — not on top of ours.
3. Celebrate.

That's it?

Yep, Oh, but we definitely do recommend using Advanced Custom Fields — especially the pro version — for all your post metadata needs. You're not even gonna believe how sweet it is. (No, we're not affiliated, we just know a bad-ass WordPress plugin when we see it.)

The classes

CPT

Default usage:

$thing = new CPT(
  'thing',
  __( 'Thing' ),
  __( 'Things' )
);

// From inside an init hook
$thing->register();

Use it as-is for a plain-jane custom post type, or extend it and do great and powerful things. Just override set_hooks(), register some hooks in there, implement them, and boom. Maximum custom awesomeness, minimum effort.

Taxonomy

Default usage:

$food_group = new Taxonomy(
  'food-group',
  __( 'Food Group' ),
  __( 'Food Groups' ),
  [ 'thing' ]
);

// From inside an init hook
$food_group->register();

When you're looking at a taxonomy in wp-admin, the count WordPress offers by default doesn't care about what post type you're under, so you get a total of all the posts of all post types with the given term, which is really annoying. The vanilla Taxonomy class replaces that behavior with a post count that's actually correct.