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Custom post types and custom taxonomies have expanded the content management system (CMS) capabilities of WordPress and are likely to be a major part of plugin and theme features as more developers become familiar with their use. Custom post types allow developers to create new content types, such as movie reviews or recipes, which are separate from posts and pages. Custom taxonomies allow developers to create new types of content groupings, such as genres for movie reviews or a season for recipes (for example, fall, spring, or winter recipes), which are separate from categories and tags.

Posts and pages are simple, generic containers of content. A page consists of timeless content that has a hierarchical structure because a page can have a parent (forming a nested, or hierarchical, structure of pages). A post consists of content that is listed in linear (not hierarchical) order based on when it was published, and a post can be organized into categories and tags. What happens when you want a hybrid of these features? What if you want content that doesn’t appear in the post listings and has neither categories nor tags, but displays the posting date? Custom post types satisfy this desire to customize content types.

Custom post types and custom taxonomies have expanded the content management system (CMS) capabilities of WordPress and are likely to be a major part of plugin and theme features as more developers become familiar with their use. Custom post types allow developers to create new content types, such as movie reviews or recipes, which are separate from posts and pages. Custom taxonomies allow developers to create new types of content groupings, such as genres for movie reviews or a season for recipes (for example, fall, spring, or winter recipes), which are separate from categories and tags.

Posts and pages are simple, generic containers of content. A page consists of timeless content that has a hierarchical structure because a page can have a parent (forming a nested, or hierarchical, structure of pages). A post consists of content that is listed in linear (not hierarchical) order based on when it was published, and a post can be organized into categories and tags. What happens when you want a hybrid of these features? What if you want content that doesn’t appear in the post listings and has neither categories nor tags, but displays the posting date? Custom post types satisfy this desire to customize content types.