redandbluefi/wp-cpt-templates-plugin

CPT Templates

Small plugin that reimplements template hierarchy in WordPress and allows you to create custom post types & their respective templates from a plugin.

The plugin doesn't do nothing out of the box. It simply loads the CPT_Template class which is used to actually do stuff.

Howto

I recommend that you create a new plugin instead of modifying this directly. The files in this plugin are only for demo purposes.

Sample plugin:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: My Plugin Name
Author: Your name
*/

add_action("init", function() {
  $blog = new CPT_Template();
  $blog->disableThemeOverloading()
    ->registerTemplateDirectory(plugin_dir_path(__FILE__))
    ->createCustomPostType("blog", [
      "labels" => [

      ],
      "public" => true,
      "publicly_queryable" => true,
      "supports" => ["title", "editor", "thumbnail", "excerpt"],
      "has_archive" => true,
      "menu_position" => 0
    ])
    ->createCustomTaxonomy("topic", "blog", [
      "labels" => [

      ],
      "public" => true,
      "publicly_queryable" => true,
      "hierarchical" => true
    ])
    ->captureSingle()
    ->captureArchive();

  // Flush rules *once* after creating a new post type or taxonomy, don't
  // leave on because the operation is expensive.
  // flush_rewrite_rules();
});

Create taxonomy-{$taxonomy_name}.php, single-{$post_type}.php and archive-{$post_type}.php and place them in the same folder.

If you want to use a preprocessor for your stylesheets and the latest flavour of JavaScript, this plugin also comes with preconfigured build scripts, copy package.json and create dist & src folders to your project if you want to use them.