What are post types on WordPress?

Short and sweet: Post Types are cate­go­ries for your con­tent.

Word­Press uses post types for all con­tent that is mana­ged and dis­play­ed via it. Plug­ins and the­mes also make use of the­se post types and use them to dis­play con­tent.

These post types come standard with WordPress #

As a con­tent manage­ment sys­tem, Word­Press of cour­se alre­a­dy pro­vi­des you with a sel­ec­tion of post types that you can use to pre­sent your con­tent on your web­site.

Of cour­se, Word­Press does not use the tech­ni­cal term here, but a term that ever­yo­ne under­stands.

Posts, (Post-Type: post)

Ori­gi­nal­ly inten­ded as a blog­ging sys­tem, it was obvious that a post type had to be used to cate­go­ri­ze the con­tent. Even today, the Post-Type is still used in blogs and artic­les of all kinds.

Pages (Post-Type: page)

For Word­Press to evol­ve into a con­tent manage­ment sys­tem, it nee­ded to pro­vi­de the abili­ty to mana­ge indi­vi­du­al pages. To make this pos­si­ble, a new post type was added, “page”. With this post type, you can now read out all sin­gle pages of your web­site.

Media (Post-Type: attachment)

Any­thing added to the Word­Press media libra­ry is con­side­red an “attach­ment”. Media can be added to posts and pages and also con­tain addi­tio­nal meta infor­ma­ti­on about the work.

Revision (Post-Type: revision)

All chan­ges or pre­vious ver­si­ons of a post or page are saved as a revi­si­on. Revi­si­ons can be res­to­red at any time in Word­Press (depen­ding on whe­ther they have been enab­led) and allow you to jump back to pre­vious ver­si­ons quick­ly and easi­ly.

Navigation (Post-Type: nav_menu_item)

Menu items are also stored as post type in Word­Press. Unli­ke pages and posts, howe­ver, they offer com­ple­te­ly dif­fe­rent input opti­ons. This shows how fle­xi­ble Post-Types are.