Elementor is an intuitive page builder for WordPress websites that makes website design and coding effortless.
It offers many features to improve site performance and SEO, and features various templates.
Posts
Custom post types in WordPress offer an exclusive content type that can be utilized for various purposes, allowing you to easily create different kinds of articles, videos and galleries in an organized fashion.
In order to add custom post types to your WordPress website, navigate to Settings > General in your dashboard. Here, you will see a list of available post types along with their corresponding templates.
Once you’ve created a custom post type, the page builder makes it simple to customize its appearance and content. Furthermore, you can add menu items that display its contents while taxonomies help categorize its data according to various topics or categories, making your visitors and readers easier able to locate exactly the information they’re searching for on your website.
Pages
WordPress leverages custom post types and taxonomies to organize and categorize content efficiently, aiding developers in working more efficiently to provide better products to clients while saving time by eliminating data duplication.
Once you’ve created a custom post type, it can be used to build any page on your website. But you may be uncertain how best to display it within WordPress; there are various approaches. One method would be using Toolset plugin.
The Toolset plugin features several features that make creating and displaying custom post types easy in WordPress. Dynamic content support enables widgets on detail pages of post types. Furthermore, relational connectivity ensures data duplication is avoided while maintaining an appealing front-end user experience.
Taxonomies
When creating a custom post type archive page, it is often beneficial to display different templates based on categories or terms. WordPress makes this possible through dynamic content for elementor plugin; simply create a ‘Terms Display’ item in its settings for that custom post type and add all terms that should appear in archive pages as criteria for display.
An Example Recipe CPT may use ingredients as its taxonomy and create a page dedicated to recipes called the ‘Recipe Archive Page’. You can also choose whether to display category descriptions in your navigation bar.
WordPress users who do not rely on dynamic content can still benefit from using the Post Carousel element to add custom templates for post types or taxonomies using Post Carousel. Simply make sure that each post type has its own distinct template instead of using the default one to avoid issues and confusion.
Templates
Elementor can help you display custom post type (CPT) content on your website by using templates. There are various single and archive templates you can create; additionally, dynamic content such as ACF plugin can be added via these templates.
To create a CPT archive template, first select the custom post type that you would like a page created for. Next, click Publish and your new CPT page can now be seen within WordPress admin panel.
Toolset View widget can also help display a list of posts in a more visually appealing manner than custom post types do, making this an effective solution for sites using multiple custom post types. Creating dynamic search fields or organizing them more systematically are among the many uses for Toolset View; particularly useful when dealing with numerous post types at once.