Create Custom Fields for Event Posts

In this lesson, we will create a new post type for events taking place in the school. The event posts will be sorted according to the date the event takes place.

Create custom post type—event

Creating a custom post type has been covered in the Registering Custom Post Type lesson in detail. Navigate to the mu-plugins folder inside the wp-content folder. This folder has a school-custom-post-types.php file where we registered the teacher and course post types. Following the same steps, we will register the event post type.

The school-custom-post-types.php file has a function school_custom_post_types which hooks onto the init hook during the WordPress initialization. To create a custom post type, the first step is to define the attributes. Create an array of arguments called $eventArgs as follows: