Description

Custom Post Archives bridges the gap between creating Custom Post Types in WordPress 3, and actually displaying those posts. With this plugin, you have
the option of displaying a completely seperate blog-like section for each post type, complete with all the features you expect to see with WordPress.

For each custom post type, if you click “active” and enter a slug-name, this plugin will let you display post-type specific:

• Archives
• Date archives
• Author archives
• Category archives
• RSS Feeds

This plug-in also provides many additional features to fully integrate your custom post types, including:

• Adds a menu option to the new menu section created in WordPress 3 (for themes that support it)
• Combined archives (http://www.mysite.com/type1+type2/)
• Option to add post types to default blog
• Option to add post types to default RSS feed
• Adds post type support to wp_get_archives function
• Adds multiple global functions and filters for working with custom post types (see Functions and Filters or Plugin Help for details)
• Automatically displays the associated post type on custom taxonomy archives
• Extends upon the WordPress templating, allowing for flexibility by theme authors (see FAQ or Plugin Help for details)
• Automatically flushes the rewrite cache after modifications are detected
• Automatically adds a “blog-{post_type}” type class to the body of the created archives (for themes that implement body_class())

For help and support, help has been built into the plug-in page’s contextual help section; be sure to check the FAQ and the plug-in forums if that doesn’t do it.

If there are any other features you’d like to see, I’m all ears. Feel free to send a message, or hit the forums!

Functions and Filters

The following function and filters are created by this plug-in. For more detailed descriptions, check the Help section built into the settings page.

Functions

is_custom_archive({$post_type = false});

get_custom_archive_url($post_type);
get_custom_archive_label({$post_type = false});
get_custom_archive_link($post_type);

The following functions are for advanced users. Each overrides the settings for the corresponding post_type in the plugin settings.

add_custom_archive($post_type,$slug,{$in_default = false,$in_rss = false});
remove_custom_archive($post_type);
add_to_default_archive($post_type);
remove_from_default_archive($post_type);
reset_custom_archive_to_default($post_type);

Filters

cpa_rewrite_label

Allows you to format the label returned by get_custom_archive_label().

cpa_templates

Allows you to provide or alter the list of templates Custom Post Archives searches for.