Letar du efter ett sätt att enkelt lägga till kategorier till en custom post type?
Kategorier är en av de inbyggda taxonomierna i WordPress, men som standard visas de bara i posts.
I den här artikeln visar vi dig hur du addar kategorier till en custom post type i WordPress.
När kan du behöva add to kategorier till en custom post type?
WordPress allow plugin utvecklare och website ägare att skapa sina egna content types. Likes to posts and pages, these custom post types can also have their own taxonomies like categories and tags.
For instance, if you publish movie reviews, then you may want to create a custom post type for ’Movies’.
Du kan också behöva organisera dina filmer i lämpliga ämnen, för det behöver du en custom taxonomi. Du kan skapa en taxonomi som anropas genre.
Men vad händer om du vill använda samma kategorier som du använder för dina blogginlägg med Movies post type?
Det är nu du måste aktivera kategorier för din custom post type. Detta skulle allow you att använda samma kategorier för både dina blogginlägg såväl som din custom post type.
Med detta sagt, låt oss nu ta en titt på hur du enkelt kan add to kategorier till en custom post type i WordPress.
Add Categories till en Custom Post Type med ett plugin
Om du är nybörjare rekommenderar vi att du använder Custom Post Type UI plugin för att skapa custom post types.
Med UI-pluginet Custom Post Type har du alternativet att associera din custom post type med alla inbyggda eller custom taxonomies, inklusive kategorier.
Först måste du installera och aktivera UI-pluginet Custom Post Type. För mer detaljer, se vår steg-för-steg guide om hur du installerar ett WordPress plugin.
Efter installationen måste du besöka CPT UI ” Add/Edit Post Types för att skapa en new custom post type eller edit en befintlig custom post type som du skapat med pluginet.
Rulla ner längst ner där alternativen för Settings finns. Därifrån kommer du att se Taxnomies area.
Du måste kontrollera boxen bredvid kategorier och spara din custom post type.
Glöm inte att klicka på knappen ”Save Post Type” för att spara dina settings.
Nu kan du redigera allt content under den vissa post typen, och du kommer att se alternativet att välja kategorier i den högra colonnen i WordPress block editor.
Lägga till kategorier manuellt till en custom post type med kod
Om du skapade din custom post type genom att add to koden i ditt temas functions.php-fil, ett webbplatsspecifikt plugin eller i ett code snippets-plugin, måste du ändra koden för att lägga till kategori som taxonomi som stöds.
Allt du behöver göra är att add to denna rad i argumenten för din custom post type.
'taxonomies' => array( 'category' ),
Det är troligt att du kanske redan har den här raden i den befintliga koden för din custom post type med någon annan anpassad taxonomi i den. Om du gör det, behöver du bara lägga till ett kommatecken efter det och lägga till en kategori, gillar detta:
'taxonomies' => array('topics', 'category' ),
Här är ett fullständigt exempel på kod där vi har skapat en custom post type som heter ’Movies’ med support för built-in kategorier.
function custom_post_type() {
// Set UI labels for Custom Post Type
$labels = array(
'name' => _x( 'Movies', 'Post Type General Name', 'twentythirteen' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Movie', 'Post Type Singular Name', 'twentythirteen' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Movies', 'twentythirteen' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Movie', 'twentythirteen' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Movies', 'twentythirteen' ),
'view_item' => __( 'View Movie', 'twentythirteen' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Movie', 'twentythirteen' ),
'add_new' => __( 'Add New', 'twentythirteen' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Movie', 'twentythirteen' ),
'update_item' => __( 'Update Movie', 'twentythirteen' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Movie', 'twentythirteen' ),
'not_found' => __( 'Not Found', 'twentythirteen' ),
'not_found_in_trash' => __( 'Not found in Trash', 'twentythirteen' ),
);
// Set other options for Custom Post Type
$args = array(
'label' => __( 'movies', 'twentythirteen' ),
'description' => __( 'Movie news and reviews', 'twentythirteen' ),
'labels' => $labels,
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'comments', 'revisions', 'custom-fields', ),
'hierarchical' => false,
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_in_menu' => true,
'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
'show_in_admin_bar' => true,
'menu_position' => 5,
'can_export' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'exclude_from_search' => false,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'capability_type' => 'page',
'show_in_rest' => true,
// This is where we add taxonomies to our CPT
'taxonomies' => array( 'category' ),
);
// Registering your Custom Post Type
register_post_type( 'movies', $args );
}
/* Hook into the 'init' action so that the function
* Containing our post type registration is not
* unnecessarily executed.
*/
add_action( 'init', 'custom_post_type', 0 );
Visning av flera posttyper på Category Page
Som standard kommer categories pages på your WordPress site endast att visa standard post typen ”Posts”.
För att visa dina custom post types på samma kategorisida som dina standardinlägg måste du add to den här koden i ditt temas functions.php-fil eller i ett code snippets-plugin:
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'query_post_type');
function query_post_type($query) {
if( is_category() ) {
$post_type = get_query_var('post_type');
if($post_type)
$post_type = $post_type;
else
$post_type = array('nav_menu_item', 'post', 'movies'); // don't forget nav_menu_item to allow menus to work!
$query->set('post_type',$post_type);
return $query;
}
}
Note: Glöm inte att ersätta ”movies” med namnet på din egen custom post type.
Vi rekommenderar att du lägger till den här koden med hjälp av WPCode, det bästa code snippets pluginet på marknaden. WPCode gör det säkert och enkelt att add to custom code i WordPress utan att editera ditt temas functions.php-fil.
För att komma igång måste du installera och aktivera det gratis pluginet WPCode. Om du behöver hjälp kan du läsa vår tutorial om hur du installerar ett plugin för WordPress.
När pluginet har aktiverats går du till Code Snippets ” Add Snippet från WordPress dashboard.
På sidan Add Snippet hoverar du musen över alternativet ”Add Your Custom Code (New Snippet)” och klickar på knappen ”Use snippet”.
Därefter lägger du till en rubrik för ditt snippet högst upp på sidan, som bara är för din referens och kan vara vad som helst för att hjälpa dig att komma ihåg vad koden är för.
Klistra sedan in koden ovan i ”Code Preview” boxen och välj ”PHP Snippet” som code type från dropdown menyn till höger.
Därefter är det bara att toggle omkopplaren högst upp på sidan från ”Inaktiverad” till ”Aktiv” och clicka på knappen ”Save Snippet”.
Du kan nu besöka en kategori archive page och det kommer att visa dina poster från din custom post type.
Du kan använda samma metoder för att add to tags till dina custom post types också. Se vår guide om kategorier vs. tags för att lära dig mer.
Expertguider om kategorier i WordPress
Vill du lära dig mer om hur du använder kategorier i WordPress? Kontrollera dessa tutorials:
- Så här ändrar du ordern på kategorierna i WordPress
- Så här tvingar du fram en kategori per post i WordPress
- Så här addar du images för taxonomi (Category Icons) i WordPress
- Hur man konverterar WordPress Kategorier till Custom Taxonomies
- Hur man spårar WordPress Category och Tag Analytics (enkelt sätt)
Vi hoppas att den här artikeln hjälpte dig att lära dig hur du addar kategorier till din custom post type i WordPress. Du kanske också vill se vårt expertval av de tillägg till WordPress som du måste ha för att få din website att växa eller dessa tips om hur du ökar trafiken till din blogg.
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Chandu Mullangi
Hi tanks for this article
To Displaying Multiple Post Types on Category Page code is working well.
I want to display multiple post types on Tags page, Can you please share that code.
WPBeginner Support
To have tags added to your custom post types you would add ’post_tag’ to your taxonomy array so it would look like:
’taxonomies’ => array( ’category’, ’post_tag’ ),
Administratör
Muhamad Shahzad
How can we separate the category lists custom post type from the blog post categories. i added above code and it works. But the issue is categories of this custom post type and blog posts are mixed. they should be separated.
WPBeginner Support
The goal of this tutorial is to have them mix, for what you are looking for it may be best to use a different category for the custom post types for them to not appear in your category archive pages.
Administratör
Poulomi Basu
Hello,
I used this code and it worked perfectly! The CPT shows in the post category that I chose for it.
But it doesn’t show in my blog archive. Like the default archive, which shows all posts.
How can I show it there as well?
Thanks a lot!
WPBeginner Support
You would want to take a look at our article below that covers how to do this
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-custom-post-types-in-wordpress/
Administratör
Connie
Please tell me how to add a CPT-category to a menu?
I have the CPT ”article” with category ”car” and ”truck”
I want to have a custom menu with these entries:
All – cars – trucks
I search and search and don’t find it. I see the categories in the menu-administration and I can add them to the menue, but the result of these links = blank pages
I suppose that the listed categories are meant as post-categpories and not as cpt-categpories…
Do you have a hint for me?
Connie
WPBeginner Support
You may want to check your screen options in the menu area to see if the custom post type is an option there for you to add that is unchecked currently
Administratör
Vico
I’ve created a post type called products and use core wp categories,
My product url structure is mysite.com/product/skf bearing 12
My category pages show mysite.com/category/bearings
Why product url doesn’t display the Category inside the Url? Like this
mysite.com/bearings/skf bearing 12
My custom post permalink is %category%%post%
I saved the permalink but still showing the same structure
dharamjeet
hey! my default posts category list shows in custom post type category list
please help me to correct it
carlos ballin
finally works for me
thank you
Moises
Why did u add the twentythirteen in the code?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Moises,
This string is used for translation. If your theme supports translation, then you need to replace it with your theme’s text domain. If you are unsure about what to use here, then ask your theme support. You can also paste it as is and those strings will be ignored.
Administratör
Brian
FYI, this will break your bulk edit in the admin. I added this to a bunch of post types and when I go to bulk edit, the post_type part of the query becomes ”Array” instead of the post type its trying to edit in the admin.
To get around this you just need to add this before if( is_category() ):
`if ( is_admin() ) return;`
rose
Hi, I need some help.
I have 2 CPT and I don’t want them to have a shared taxonomy.
Like
CPT 1
– Taxonomy (Types)
– Type A
– Type B
CPT 2
– Taxonomy (Types)
– Type c
– Type D
Note: I dont want to show here the types A&B from CPT 1
Thank you
WPBeginner Support
Hi Rose,
When creating your taxonomies you can name them differently and allow them to have same labels.
Administratör
Gabriela
How to add a second custom post type?
I tried repeating the code only changing the names of my CPTs but it doesn’t work…
Any ideas?
Arun Sathiya
The displaying CPT in category pages code works like a charm, thank you! But, there is something that you should note though. The latest post / CPT post tagged with a category name does not show up on that category page immediately. It shows up only on the second similar action – only when another post / CPT post is added to the same category, the first post appears on that category page. is there a fix to this?
Sonjoe
I am using CPT UI. I created custom post type ”jobs” and allowed categories. But this same categories is also on Posts. They using the same categories. It is possible, that my custom post type ”jobs” will have own categories and classic posts will have own categories? Thanks
Rizky
Same question. Do we need to run a custom query if we want to create a category archive of that custom post type?
fathur
how do you deal with Recent Posts sidebar widget that also list the menu item?
$post_type = array(’nav_menu_item’, ’post’, ’movies’);
WPBeginner Support
you can remove nav_menu_item
Administratör
vivek
Thanks for the great tutorial here.
Can you please tell me how can i show custom posts by category on separate page.
Default category page is working properly, it displays the posts. but when I tried to display posts under the same category in a different page, it returns empty array. Pleas help
Matthew Wright
Thank you! This is awesome. It solved simply a problem that I’ve been working on with much more convoluted solutions (that didn’t work).
One question though, I’ve never added the taxonomy declaration when creating custom taxonomies for my CPTs and the taxonomies have always worked. I added just the ’category’ to see what would happen and it worked beautifully, added post categories to my CPT with no ill effect on the existing custom taxonomies.
Is it best practice though to put custom tax in the CPT arguments?
Thanks again for sharing
WPBeginner Support
Yes, if you already know that you will be using a custom taxonomy for that particular post type.
Administratör
Daisy
Custom code for adding category and sub categorues in custom post type.If i choose $post_type = array(‘nav_menu_item’, ‘post’, ‘myPostType’); code for displaying my categories it only display that category only but if i reuse the same function for another category it won’t work.please give any idea
Chris Najman
Hello. I successfully created a custom post type (Artwork) in functions.php. Then I created a custom taxonomy (’hierarchical’ => true) which means I can add custom categories when I create a new Artwork post.
I was wondering if, within the same custom taxonomy function, I could pre-define the categories for the Artwork post.
What I want are only two categories to be selectable by the user : 1) Painting, 2) Sculpture. I don’t want the user to be able to add any more categories. Ideally, the user would be ’forced’ to choose one or the other category, i.e. the post wouldn’t be publishable unless a category had been chosen.
Is this possible?
WPBeginner Support
It is possible by creating custom user roles with limit on creating categories.
Administratör
Mau Ferrusca
I am adding more then one categories to several custom post types.
How can you add more than one in the line:
$post_type = array(’nav_menu_item’, ’post’, ’myPostType’);
?
Thanks!
Mau Ferrusca
Already solved my problem.
Perhaps instinctively, I started listing my custom post types as an array, but turns out that all I needed to do was to list them inside the $post_type object, separated with commas.
Thanks!
Eren
Hi, i have a question. I’m using a plugin as a post type and it has its own category area. I want to use my wordpress’s core categories in this plugin but couldnt able to do it so far. I used the plugin above and after that it creates 2 categories area under the plugin and when i want to show the posts under that post type with categories, it shows nothing as the plugin’s own category list is empty. I tried lots of things including manipulating the code of the plugin yet none solved my issue. Is there a way you can suggest?
Davide
Did you find any solution for this issue?
David
Has this article been updated recently to work with the current version of WP? I noticed the plugin used hasn’t been updated in over 2 years, which makes me a little hesitant to use it.
David
Sorry, nevermind, I see the updated info.
Piyush
Thanks for the great tutorial. can you please tell me how can i show custom posts by category on separate page. Lets say i have CPT ”talent” and a category ”art”. I have two different posts one is created under CPT ”talents” and other is general post created under ”posts”. Both posts are assigned to ”art” category(this is common for both CPT and general posts). Now i know that for the general posts you can view the category page as example.com/category/art/. For CPT category page i guess the url should be example.com/talent/art/ but it is giving me 404 error.
WPBeginner Support
Try updating your permalink structure. Simply visit Settings » Permalinks and then click on the save changes button without changing anything.
Administratör
Robert
Well done thanks!
I have a couple of troubles:
– in ”Categories” widget appear the Categories of Custom Post Types but on clic it returns a ”nothing found” message.
– in ”Recent Posts” widget don’t appear Custom Post Type Posts.
There is a way to fix it?
Hemang Rindani
Interesting article. WordPress is a powerful enterprise web content management service that allows a company to have efficient websites that suits their business requirements. It’s easy to use and effortless tools makes the development look easier. From responsive design to security and expand-ability, WordPress CMS has it all in it however, searching the right tools for a website is important.
Adding category to custom post type sometimes becomes a necessity for differentiating one post from other where the methods mentioned in the article will be useful. Using plugin will be an easy method where even a non-technical person will be able to implement this, however with this article, I don’t feel that using code to add this feature by a non-technical person will be difficult.
Thanks for sharing.
Emily Johns
Great tips, I’ve got the way to fix my problem with this. Thanks!