Custom Post Types allow you to structure your content, but WordPress does not have a built-in way to display it. Premium page builders now have the ability to create content templates for Custom Post Types. These tutorials demonstrate the way to use these tools and the differences between them.
For an overview and comparison of the options, start with Custom Post Types and Displaying Dynamic Content – Review of the Options.
The maker of Piotnet Addons for Elementor and Piotnet Forms has just released a new product called Piotnet Grid. This is a plugin that lets you create content grids and carousels, such as on a shop, blog, or archive page. You can also equip your grids with front-end controls for filtering, sorting, and pagination. These…
Introduction Custom fields are one of the main features that moves WordPress from being just a blogging platform to being a platform that supports different types of content and functionality. While you can create custom fields in code, many site builders turn to one of four popular plugins that let you easily add custom fields:…
When it comes to working with dynamic data, Oxygen is known for being one of the most flexible and powerful builders. It has long had support for Advanced Custom Fields and Toolset. Oxygen is now adding support for Meta Box in version 3.9 and the beta was just released. Meta Box is light weight and…
Zion Builder is a relatively new builder and as of this writing is already on version 2.5. This tells you that the developers are busy adding features and fixing bugs. Zion Builder was recently offered at a discounted price on AppSumo, not to raise money, but to raise awareness. The team wanted to get the…
By default WordPress does not show custom fields on the front-end and to do so requires some theming. In this series we have looked at a number of tools, both plugins and themes, for creating the theme templates for Custom Post Types in order to show their custom fields. In this post we will instead…
GeneratePress was one of the first, general purpose, page builder friendly themes. The pro version of GeneratePress has recently added a theme builder and in this walk-through I’ll use it to create the single and archive templates for a Custom Post Type and we will see how it works. I created the Custom Post Type…
Introduction Bricks Builder is a new theme that includes a page builder. Version 1 was released in March 2021 and it has a surprising number of features. It includes a theme template builder, a page builder, and works with Custom Post Types and custom fields. In this review I will do a high level overview…
This post is meant for people who are considering Oxygen for site building. It is not like most builders as it is both more involved and more powerful. In a companion video I created an Oxygen site from scratch so that people could see the process and what was involved. In this post I’m providing…