Create a custom post type

A custom post type creates a separate WordPress content collection with its own administration menu, labels, supported editor features, and optional public routes.

Prepare the identifiers

Choose:

• A stable lowercase Post type slug without spaces or special characters
• A customer-facing Singular name
• A customer-facing Plural
• An optional Dashicon slug for Icon

Do not reuse post, page, course, lesson, product, or another registered post type slug. Changing the machine slug later creates a different content type rather than renaming the existing records.

Register the collection

1. Open Settings → POM Theme → Content model → Post Types.
2. In Custom Post types, choose Add post type.
3. Enter the slug and labels.
4. Choose Single layout:
   • Simple layout uses the theme’s standard single-content flow.
   • Use with Visual Composer uses page-style content rendering.
   • Saved custom single templates appear as Custom – template name options.
5. Enable Enable single page when entries need public single URLs and navigation-menu availability.
6. Enable Enable archive when the collection needs a public archive.
7. Set Exclude from search according to whether native WordPress search should include the entries.
8. Enable only the editor features required: thumbnail, authors, excerpt, comments, or content.
9. Save the POM Theme settings.

Every POM-created post type supports a title and page-order attributes. POM-created post types use a flat entry structure; use a hierarchical taxonomy when entries need durable parent-and-child organization.

Configure the public base

After saving:

1. Open Settings → Permalinks.
2. Find Custom post types.
3. Review the “Plural label” Custom slug field.
4. Save the permalink screen.

The stored custom slug becomes the rewrite base; the post type’s machine slug remains its internal identity.

Add a representative entry

Create one entry from the new administration menu. Populate every enabled editor feature, publish it, and verify:

• The single URL when Enable single page is active
• The archive when Enable archive is active
• Search inclusion or exclusion
• The selected single layout
• The post type’s dynamic settings under the POM Theme Templates area

If a route returns 404 immediately after setup, save Settings → Permalinks again and retest. Next, create a taxonomy or add fields.