Roundup WordPress 3.0 Custom Content Type

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Oh what a tangled blog I ~~weave~~ mangle. I thought it would take a few posts and days to document the work I started in April to use the then beta features of WordPress 3 to develop the NMC’s MIDEA web site. And just trying to write up the last few, I can see it is a heap.

So while I have maybe two more to write up, I wanted to make this to be the hub post to all the others. You can also find these (and whatever comes in the future) tagged here as wp3 http://cogdogblog.com/tag/wp3/.

Overview of WordPress 3.0 Content Types– my plans to dive in
Creating the content types. The easiest part, and the beauty of functions.php
Leveraging child themes– my newly discovered best practice for chopping apart themes.
Adding the meta data field editing boxes (add_post_meta). This is how we augment the standard post editing screens. Hacking the Editing fields. Code heavy.
Modifying templates to display the content Mastering the four flavors of WordPress Loops. This is where it got really long, broke it inot one post per content type I created.
- Dressing up and Displaying WordPress 3 Custom Post Content (a) – generating output for the projects and single project pages
- Pinning WordPress 3 Custom Content to the Map (b) – Templates for the organization content types- using geolocation meta-data to generate dynamic google maps.
- Posts in Time WordPress 3 Custom Content for Events (c) TBD
What’s Next? – TBD

Also, since the code got long in the posts and because someone nicely asked, I packaged up all the template files described into a single collection. A few non-essential layout elements are removed, but functionally, it is ripped from my themes directory. You can get the most up to date version at
http://cogdogblog.com/code/wp3-midea-sample.zip

This is complex stuff; I just kept banging my head against the keyboard until it worked. I’m sorry but I cant really debug your specific projects- but am putting all my work here on the freebie table.

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