How to set up Custom Taxonomy and Custom Posts in WordPress? (part-1)

Wordpress make it easy to categorize your website content by the use of Custom Post Type UI Plugin. You create your own post types and categorize them by Custom Taxonomy. Download and install Custom Post Type UI Plugin in your WordPress site or blog.

After activating plugin, you will see Custom Post Type in left menu in wordpress site admin.

If you mouse over Custom Post types you will see Menu (Custom Post Types, Add New, Manage Post Types, and Manage Taxonomies). Click on Add New.

Enter Post Type Name, and click on Create Custom Post Type button. You can also set Advance label Options and Advance Options but if you don’t know them leave them as default.

I created custom post type name “Hotels”.

Enter Taxonomy Name; select your custom post type from Attach to Post Type checkbox options (In my case Hotels is custom post type) and Click on Create Custom Taxonomy button. You can also set Advance label Options and Advance Options but if you don’t know them leave them as default. I created Reservations as custom taxonomy.

Now you will find custom post type in left menu bar in admin.

Click on Add Hotel. You will find Add Hotel page same as regular add post page. Look at Reservation block in right side bar. It is same as Tags block.

If you required it as Category block then; you need to edit custom taxonomy. Click on Custom Post Types > Manage Taxonomy. Click on Edit from next page. You will see Advance Options in right side.

There is Hierarchical is set False. By default it is false. Change it to True and Save Custom Taxonomy. Now Add Taxonomy Term for your custom taxonomy. In this example we have Reservations as Custom Taxonomy so term for this. Click on Reservations from left menu bar.

This will almost same as Category section. Add any term and now click on Add Hotel. You will see Reservations block as following.

By default Custom Taxonomy and Custom Posts will not be shown on site. You need to customize you theme.

In next article you will find how to show custom taxonomy and post in your wordpress theme.