Posts: support custom post types

[lucyllewy]

Currently the CPT support in Calypso seems to be link-only which opens a browser to the site's wp-admin. Ideally the Calypso UI should be able to interact with CPTs directly.

See also #587

[chuckreynolds]

yeah... unfortunately that's a deal breaker. Looking forward to this in future release. 👍

[amandarush]

Post types also do not seem to be supported when using the editor from wordpress.com, at least with a screen reader. Looking forward to this becoming a feature as one of my sites is pretty dependent on CPTs.

[aidanlane]

+1 for this, as CPT support is incredibly important for us.

[abdusfauzi]

+1

[jeherve]

Also suggested here:
http://wptavern.com/automattic-unveils-open-source-wordpress-desktop-application-for-the-mac/comment-page-1#comment-107928

[johndnixon]

+1

[jeherve]

Also suggested here:
http://halfelf.org/2015/calypso/

[macmanx2]

Also requested at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-editing-custom-post-types-in-wp-desktop-or-calypso

[ntpixels]

Also requested in 2493190-t

[ReessKennedy]

+1

[rveitch]

+1

[Asitis]

+1

[rubenlangius]

+1

[dre1080]

+1

[alexclst]

+1. I'm a technology consultant helping run a number of WP sites, one of which is extremely dependent on CPTs. I love using Calypso for most of my WP content editing these days, and truly miss it on that one site. Please add this feature.

[andrewvorobyov]

+1

[igolden]

+1

[zachskaggs]

+1

[moisb]

That would be wonderful! Including option to edit/add custom fields!

[codebykat]

Support for custom post types is launching soon! There's a call for testing over on our Horizon site: https://horizonfeedback.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/call-for-testing-custom-content-types-in-calypso/

If anyone here would like to take it for a spin, we'd love to hear how it works for you. :)

[moisb]

Hello Kat. This is great news. Thank you very much!

[aduth]

Hi folks, as a follow-on to @codebykat's previous comment, we've now enabled custom post type support for all users in production environments.

As described in the Call for Testing caveats, if you're using Calypso for your own self-hosted site running Jetpack, you will need to whitelist any post types you'd like to manage in Calypso. This is a consequence of privacy considerations we had made in requiring site owners to opt in to their site's custom post types being made available from the WordPress.com REST API. For more information about the REST API and custom post types, refer to our original developer site announcement post.

You can enable support by adding a filter like the following to your theme's theme's functions.php, or the plugin enabling the custom post type:

function mytheme_restapi_allowed_types( $types ) {
    $types[] = 'my-custom-type'; // Replace with name of CPT
    return $types;
}
add_filter( 'rest_api_allowed_post_types', 'mytheme_restapi_allowed_types' );

It is not currently possible to enable or disable Portfolio or Testimonial custom content types for Jetpack sites in Calypso (part of the "Custom Content Types" module). We will enable these shortly after the release of Jetpack 4.2.

[aidanlane]

Now looking forward to #587, which will go quite nicely with this 😃

[alexclst]

Aside from looking forward to #587 I'm also looking forward to whenever the WP iOS app gets updated to support CPT editing. I see the WordPress.com website showing the post types' content editable, but on my phone it doesn't even list the custom post types yet. I hope an update is planned to enable this as it is one of the major reasons to have the post types be exposed to the REST API.

[codebykat]

CPT editing in the apps is tracked in their own repos. Please do follow along and/or +1 those issues. :)

Android: wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Editor-Android#114
iOS: wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS#500

[sarahdenise]

+1