New Custom Post Type not working

[kinek 0]

A bit disappointed in the message I received after registering a new post type. I need this functionality working with this theme to better organize landing pages from normal pages. Once I enter content into the new post type and click "view" I receive the following message - "Direct Previewing of "Special Post Types" Not Available... Yet SORRY, DIRECT PREVIEWING OF SPECIAL "POST TYPES" SUCH AS "FEATURES" OR "BOXES" ISN'T UNAVAILABLE. THIS WORDPRESS FUNCTIONALITY IS NEW AND RAPIDLY DEVELOPING, SO IT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE SOON. TO PREVIEW A "CUSTOM POST TYPE" JUST VIEW A PAGE WITH THAT "SECTION" ON IT." Anyone have any ideas as to why this is showing? Is this a theme issue on how boxes were created? Thanks

[Rob 547]

You seem to be viewing the post type rather than the page it's applied to. I think that's the reason.

[kinek 0]

I have custom post types applied on many sites and I simply give the post type a template file such as single-landingpage.php and I can view the post type perfectly. You can even set up an archive of the post types by turning on the archive in the post type meta. Why would I need to apply a post type to a page? Am I missing something?

[Rob 547]

I get the same message when I try to view the page for each individual feature slider (also custom post types). Not sure why this is, so I'm going to bump this up to the developers for a solution.

[kinek 0]

For anyone reading this post, I have a solution for custom post types with the Platformbase theme. All I needed to do to get this to work was add 'has_archive' to my custom post type (not sure why, maybe a Pagelines developer can clear the air on this)....here is the code I used: /* add_action( 'init', 'cpt_test' ); function cpt_test() { register_post_type( 'test', array( 'labels' => array( 'name' => __('Tests'), 'singular_name' => __('Test') ), 'public' => true, 'menu_position' => 17, 'show_ui' => true, 'has_archive' => 'tests', 'supports' => array('title', 'editor','custom-fields', 'author'), 'rewrite' => array( 'with_front' => false ), ) ); } */ If you want the custom post type to have its own look and feel you will need to create a file single-{your-post-type}.php and place it in the PlatformBase theme folder. You can use the single.php code from the default Wordpress theme to get you started, and you can then switch up the class names and create your own custom look for your new post type.

[kinek 0]

For some reason this only works for 1 custom post type. Anyone have any idea as to why this woulnd't work for 2,3 etc. I would love to get custom post types working the way they normally do with Wordpress with this theme.