Manual, duplicate or import / export posttypes

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Tagged: Setting up custom types, Types plugin

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Last updated by Nigel 5 years, 3 months ago.

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September 19, 2019 at 4:29 am #1343603

samuelH

Hi!
I am building a major site, which will contain nearly 25 different post types. The posttypes consists of about 30 custom fields.

Each posttype will look aproximatly the same, only with different titles. I have made one posttype, and I am wondering if there is a smart way to duplicate this posttype, so I dont have to program every single posttype from scratch.

There is no duplicate function inside toolset, so I am wondering if there is another approach to this?

September 19, 2019 at 8:52 am #1343721

Nigel

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Hi Samuel

You can duplicate post types from the list of post types at Toolset > Post Types (screenshot).

Did you mean something else?

September 21, 2019 at 1:21 pm #1345307

samuelH

Hi Nigel,
Duplicating the post type works fine, but in the original post type there are a lot of custom fields, some special code, several views and so forth.

I am looking for a way to duplicate it all, not only the post type itself.

September 23, 2019 at 6:58 am #1345803

Nigel

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There is no such option, no.

You may not need to recreate the custom field groups, if the post types use the same fields then you can simply assign a custom field group to lots of post types from the custom field group edit page (once you have registered the post types).

You can duplicate Views and then edit the duplicate and simply change the post type the View refers to.

But they are discreet steps, you can't do it in one go.