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WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition)

You're reading from   WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition) Create a variety of exciting sites for e-commerce, networking, video streaming, and more, using WordPress

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784397968
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Migrating a Static Site to WordPress FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Social Media Site 3. Creating a Network of Sites 4. Creating an E-commerce Site 5. Creating a Video Streaming Site 6. Creating a Review Site 7. Creating a Jobs Board 8. Creating a Team Communications Site 9. Creating a Gallery Site 10. Creating a Membership Site Index

Creating posts for our review site


Before anyone can post a review, we need something for them to review!

In this site, I'm going to use a post for each restaurant that people will be able to review. If you're already using posts for your blog, you might want to create a separate post type for the products or services you want people to review.

Note

If you want to create custom post types, you can do so using a plugin or by writing code in your theme. A plugin that will help you do this is the Custom Post Type UI plugin, available at https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/. For a guide to coding the post types yourself, visit http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/creating-content-custom-post-types/.

Creating the posts

I'm going to create a post for each restaurant in my site. Go ahead and create a number of posts for your review site in the same way.

The following screenshot shows all my posts. As you can see, I've added them to categories relating to the type of cuisine offered by each restaurant...

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