What does Custom Post Type UI do?

Custom Post Type UI provides an easy-to-use interface for registering and managing custom post types and taxonomies for your website.

What is Custom Post Type UI Extended?

Custom Post Type UI Extended was created to help with displaying your crafted content. View our Layouts page to see available layout examples with Custom Post Type UI Extended.

Where can I find the GitHub repository for Custom Post Type UI?

The GitHub repo can be found at https://github.com/WebDevStudios/custom-post-type-ui.

Where can I report bugs or suggest enhancements for Custom Post Type UI?

Please use the WordPress.org support tab for potential bugs, issues, or enhancement ideas.

Custom Post Type UI - Easy Custom Post Types and Taxonomies

Features Download’s trend Changelog Reviews

Easy Content Management

Custom Post Type UI simplifies the process of registering and managing custom post types and taxonomies for your website.

Display Your Content

Custom Post Type UI Extended helps you showcase your custom content types with ease. Check out our Layouts page for examples.

Seamless Plugin Integration

Custom Post Type UI is developed on GitHub and official releases are published on WordPress.org. Use the support tab for bug reports and enhancement ideas.

Author’s Site

1.16.0 – 2024-04-08

Added: Added a wpml-config.xml file.
Updated: Added “search_terms” to disallowed taxonomy list.
Updated: Began converting our javascript away from jQuery dependency.
Updated: tested up to WP 6.5

1.15.1 – 2023-11-08

Fixed: Fixed up some Right-to-Left language styling issues.
Fixed: Fixing forgot to update about page and some PHP constants for CPTUI version.

1.15.0 – 2023-11-06

Added: Checkbox to indicate you intend to migrate a post type into CPTUI in event of matching slugs. Props @ramsesdelr
Added: “item_trashed” post type label support from WordPress 6.3
Updated: confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.4.
Updated: PHP8 compatibility.
Updated: Minimum WordPress version to version 6.3, minimum PHP version to 7.4.

1.14.0 – 2023-08-07

Added: “Scroll to top” links in CPTUI pages. Props @aslamatwebdevstudios
Added: Remembers toggled states for CPTUI settings panels. Props @aslamatwebdevstudios and @ramsesdelr
Updated: Notes about slugs for both post types and taxonomies.
Updated: Support/FAQ section with more accurate links.

1.13.7 – 2023-07-11

Fixed: “themes” marked as reserved taxonomy slug. Causes issues with featured image metabox.
Fixed: PHP notice around sort parameter.

1.13.6 – 2023-05-30

Fixed: Prevent PHP errors for dynamic WordPress hooks.
Fixed: Prevent PHP errors from array_key_exist() checks on non arrays.
Updated: Removed Maintainn graphic and added WP Search with Algolia Pro graphic.
Updated: Fixed a lot of text escaping for translation-ready content.

1.13.5 – 2023-03-27

Fixed: Security issue in CPTUI Debug Info screen.
Fixed: Added empty() check for can_export parameters.
Updated: Changed textdomain loading from plugins_loaded to init.

1.13.4 – 2022-12-16

Fixed: Character encoding issue on CPTUI setting save in conjunction with PHP8 compatibility.

1.13.3 – 2022-12-15

Fixed: Multiple PHP8 compatibility notices and warnings.
Fixed: “Invalid argument for foreach” based notices around labels.
Updated: Added taxonomy PHP global sanitization for 3rd party parameters.

1.13.2 – 2022-11-29

Fixed: Removed forcing of underscores in place of dashes for taxonomy slugs. Yay!
Updated: tested up to WP 6.1.1
Updated: Documentation links in wordpress.org FAQ section.

1.13.1 – 2022-09-08

Fixed: Various issues caused by a misplaced output for ob_get_clean() outside of function.

1.13.0 – 2022-09-07

Added: Notes regarding featured image and post format support also needing add_theme_support to work.
Fixed: Issues around double quotes and JSON export with the post type description field
Fixed: Issues around HTML markup being removed from post type description field stemming from 1.10.x release
Fixed: Pluralization issue with our UI for some field labels
Updated: Code separation and quality cleanup.
Updated: Plugin branding.

1.12.1 – 2022-05-16

Fixed: JSON decoding issues around WP-CLI import.

1.12.0 – 2022-05-09

Added: Tested on WordPress 6.0.
Added: Auto-check, but not force, “page-attributes” when setting a post type as hierarchical.
Added: “rest_namespace” parameters for both post types and taxonomies.
Added: “register_meta_box_cb” parameter for post types.
Fixed: undefined index notices for “can_export”.
Updated: list of reserved taxonomy names with more that are considered reserved.
Updated: readme descriptions and screenshots.

1.11.2 – 2022-03-21

Fixed: Unintended reuse of $delete_with_user variable and can_export option. Props @bogutskyy
Fixed: PHP notices around sort array index.

1.11.1 – 2022-03-18

Fixed: Errors and warnings around array_key_exists() and bool values

1.11.0 – 2022-03-17

Added: “sort” argument for taxonomies.
Added: “can export” argument for post types
Added: New taxonomy labels from WordPress 5.9
Added: Custom option to set “Enter title here” value for post types.
Added: Notes around “exclude from search” argument for post types and taxonomy term archives.
Added: Notes around taxonomy “hierarchical” option regarding category vs tag behavior.
Updated: Reserved post type slugs from recent WordPress releases.
Fixed: PHP warnings around foreach loops in cptui_published_post_format_fix()

Useless after ACF update

By vertopolkaLF (vertopolkalf) on March 7, 2024

Advanced Custom Fields do the same better and have much prettier design

Mysterious plugin

By Unwanted Life (unwantedlife) on January 26, 2024

I did not have any real issues with this plugin until it decided to create an additional and new plugin without my knowledge or consent. When I tried to talk to the developer about this, they simply didn't care or want to get to the bottom of how and why this happened.

Got to the bottom of the mystery, it's just a shame I had to deal with someone that refuses to be help and was rude about it first

Works like a charm

By gregamer on January 18, 2024

Plugin works as described, does the work well and support is fast. The team deserves 5 stars!

Reliable plugin, quick and easy to register post types , great support

By jbslettebak on December 20, 2023

I've used this plugin for several years without issue. It's easy to register and view your custom post types and custom taxonomies, and works exactly as it's supposed to. Support response is very fast and helpful, too.

Great all around, keep up the good work.

Great piece of software

By thisbit on December 4, 2023

Plugins like these make wordpress worthwile

really useful

By krishnasuwal on July 26, 2023

speeds up development and has nice user-friendly UI. It was a nice experience working with this plugin.

Excellent plugin and easy to use

By chillmen on July 25, 2023

The plugin is easy to use, lot of options to choose from.
You have the option to copy code and put it in the functions.php file, if you have one CPT to manage. You can disable the plugin after that.
I have a lot of CPT to manage, so i prefer to keep the settings in the plugin.
Thanks a lot to all developers who worked on this plugin, and thank you for making it free.

Unnecessary if you also use ACF

By delanet on May 4, 2023

This plugin has become unnecessary since ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) added support for managing custom post types and taxonomies. ACF has a more modern user interface, and you can even easily import post types and taxonomies created with CPT UI, including their settings, into ACF.