Custom post types and custom taxonomies are the building blocks for advanced functionality. Most of the time, the code for registering them is either copy+pasted from somewhere or it’s saved as a snippet in your text editor.
Now you can do this with WP-CLI, using the wp scaffold command.
Scaffold a custom post type
The following command generates the code for registering the post type and also for customizing the update messages:
wp scaffold post-type zombie
Scaffold a taxonomy
The following command generates the code for registering the taxonomy to the zombie post type:
wp scaffold taxonomy zombie-speed --post_types=zombie
But I only want the registration of the post-type…
Then you can add the --raw flag:
wp scaffold post-type zombie --raw
This will only output the code that will register_post_type() without the init action and the update messages.
But where does the code go?
This is a personal preference. Some ship it within a theme, while others will save it within a plugin. That’s why we have these two flags:
wp scaffold post-type zombie --theme
--theme stores the generated code within your current active theme under a /post-types directory and names a file name zombie.php
wp scaffold post-type zombie --plugin=pluginname
--plugin=plugin-dir-name stores the generated code within the given plugin name.
By default, the code will be output to your terminal (STDOUT) so you could write it to your file of choice:
wp scaffold post-type zombie > ~/project/foo/bar.php
And what about I18n?
Internationalization by gettext can be achieved through the --textdomain parameter:
wp scaffold post-type zombie --textdomain=my-textdomain
By default when using the --theme, the textdomain will be that of your active theme, and if
using the --plugin flag, the textdomain will be your plugin name.
Enjoy these commands; we hope it will speed-up and ease your development with WordPress!