Custom single page for custom post type, wordpress

Question

I've just figured out how to make custom post types and feed them out onto a page, I am wondering if I can change the single post pages for them?

Can I just set up a single-news.php for example? If so, how would that PHP file be formatted and how does WordPress know to use that single-news.php file? I'm just looking to have them spit out the full article.

Thank you!!

Answer 1

After you created the CPT, do this for showing single posts of your CPT:

• Duplicate the single.php file in your template and rename it like single-{post_type}.php (eg. single-movie.php)
• Flush the permalinks from WordPress

You can get more details from this post

• Now if you want to show a list of CPT you can use get_posts() with args:

  $args = array( ... 'post_type' => 'movie' )

Answer 2

Custom Post Type in wordpress. Basic four steps 

Step 1 : File Path location : theme/function.php in your theme

  Paste code in function.php (register custom post type )

  <?php

add_action( 'init', 'custom_post_type_func' );
function custom_post_type_func() {
    //posttypename = services
$labels = array(
'name' => _x( 'Services', 'services' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'services', 'services' ),
'add_new' => _x( 'Add New', 'services' ),
'add_new_item' => _x( 'Add New services', 'services' ),
'edit_item' => _x( 'Edit services', 'services' ),
'new_item' => _x( 'New services', 'services' ),
'view_item' => _x( 'View services', 'services' ),
'search_items' => _x( 'Search services', 'services' ),
'not_found' => _x( 'No services found', 'services' ),
'not_found_in_trash' => _x( 'No services found in Trash', 'services' ),
'parent_item_colon' => _x( 'Parent services:', 'services' ),
'menu_name' => _x( 'Services', 'services' ),
);
$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'hierarchical' => true,
'description' => 'Hi, this is my custom post type.',
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'trackbacks', 'custom-fields', 'comments', 'revisions', 'page-attributes' ),
'taxonomies' => array( 'category', 'post_tag', 'page-category' ),
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_in_menu' => true,
'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'exclude_from_search' => false,
'has_archive' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'can_export' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post'
);
register_post_type( 'services', $args );
}
?>

Step 2: how can show wordpress custom post type in wordpress template page ?

  : you can show anywhere in template page like this :



<?php   $args = array( 'post_type' => 'services', 'posts_per_page' => 20 );
            $loop = new WP_Query( $args );
            while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
            <div class="services-items">
            <?php the_title(); 
        if ( has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) ) {
        echo '<a href="' . get_permalink( $post->ID ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $post->post_title ) . '">';
        echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID, 'thumbnail' );
        echo '</a>'; }

?>
            </div>
    <?php endwhile; ?>

Step 3: Create new template for show single post like this

single-{custom post type name}.php or single-services.php

Step 4: Paste code in single-services.php file

 <?php /* The loop */ ?>
            <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
                <div class="main-post-div">
                <div class="single-page-post-heading">
                <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
                </div>
                <div class="content-here">
                <?php  the_content();  ?>
                </div>
                <div class="comment-section-here"
                <?php //comments_template(); ?>
                </div>
                </div>

            <?php endwhile; ?>

This is custom post type example with single post page.

Answer 3

for this purpose you can create the template file for your single-news.php page. and get your post as you want by wordpress query. for example your single-news.php page

<?php
//Template Name: Single News
?>

<?php
//get your content
$args = array('category' =>'9','posts_per_page'=> 3);
                        $myposts = get_posts( $args );
                        global $post;
                        foreach ( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?> 

//go with your content

Answer 4

Here are some urls u can idea about the creating custom post templates.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Type_Templates
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Custom_Taxonomies_display
https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Type_Templates

With the help of above urls u can get idea how you can create new templates for custom post types and custom taxonomy. I think this will help you.