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Last week we have announced the release of our WordPress 3.x themes. One of the major features they include is the ability for website owners to create and edit custom post types and page templates. This was actually one of trump cards that fortified WordPress’ positions in the CMS comparison chart. WordPress was often criticized for weak content system and the lack of flexibility in general (as we know WordPress is considered to be a blogging platform which is why it was pretty complicated to customize it for classical static business websites). So now this problem is fixed, and our new WordPress themes are perfectly compatible with this new feature and include some predefined custom post types and page templates.

So let’s get back now to these features. First of all, it very important to understand the meaning of the following terms: posts, pages, custom posts types and page templates. Without it it would be hard to comprehend all advantages and even the main point of implementing these new features.

• Post is a default content type which is related to the blogging sphere. Usually blog posts are displayed in reverse sequential order by time (newest posts come first).
• Page is a default content type that used for the static pages. Pages are for non-blog content. For example the default set of WordPress pages contains Home Page, About Us and maybe Contact Us pages. Actually you can remove all posts from a WordPress installation and by this you’ll achieve a standard non-blog static website.
• Page Template is a functional feature of our WordPress 3.x themes which allows you to change the page layout, number of columns, move siderbar etc.
• Custom Post Type is another functional feature that is tightly connected with Page templates. This option allows you to manage website’s content which is not typical for blogging post types. For example with the help of Posts section at the dashboard you can create separate pages for portfolio page items, edit content of the slider on your pages and so on. Custom post types can be the elements that page templates contain (e.g. every individual testimonial in a testimonials page template is built with testimonials post type) or may be used independently.

Now we will show you some interesting examples of the custom post types and page templates in our new WordPress 3.x themes. By the way if you want to see them in action – just click the live demo of the WordPress theme and play with its features ad lib. Here are some examples of page templates and custom post types.

Portfolio Post Type with Portfolio Page Template for 4 columns

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Services Post Type

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About Page Template

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Slider Custom Post Type

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Testimonials Custom Post Type

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FAQ Custom Post Type

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Written by Edward Korcheg

Edward has been with TemplateMonster blog since 2009 and is a great fan of social media and web development trends (especially jQuery and HTML5). In fact, HTML5 along with retro trucks are his two biggest hobbies. He dreams of one day coding himself a retro truck using nothing but HTML5 Canvas tag.

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