At LightSpeed we are hard at work designing a site for DIY Trade News.
For this client we are utilizing Custom Post types to make adding content to the relevant sections so much easier.
We’ve used it in the following ways:
Q&A
For the DIY site, the client wanted to have a spotlight section on the frontpage, highlighting the top questions asked of the person that they interviewed.
The full interview will then be visible if you click on the ‘Read more’ and taken to the Q&A section.
This is a powerful tool, giving the content manager the freedom to highlight specific questions from the interview and place these on the frontpage (home page) of the site where it will catch the attention of the viewer and result in a click through to the article. In this way it functions somewhat like a magazine cover heading, making the viewer want to peek what’s inside.
If the Custom Post Type was not used, only an excerpt of the article would have been displayed, not giving us the desired flexibility.
This allows seperate styling for the highlighted questions that appear on the frontpage.
This allows seperate styling for the highlighted questions that appear on the frontpage.
Other uses for Custom Post Types:
- Directory
- Video
- Events
- Gallery
- Podcasts
- Property Listings
- Rental Listings
- Product Listing
