Toolset making DUPLICATE 'custom post types' in database table

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Last updated by Waqar 2 years, 2 months ago.

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December 8, 2022 at 2:59 pm #2511737

devinS-3

I am trying to: get a list of the custom post types on my website

Link to a page where the issue can be seen: see screenshot - i added some colors to show duplicates.

I expected to see: a list of unique CPTs

Instead, I got: duplicates galore.

Why is this happening? how do i fix it? how do i prevent it in the future?

thanks

December 9, 2022 at 12:57 pm #2512363

Waqar

Hi,

Thank you for contacting us and I'd be happy to assist.

From the screenshot, it seems that you're using the table "{table_prefix}toolset_type_sets" to get the list of custom post types registered on the website, which is not correct.

That table is used by the Toolset's post-relationship feature to store information about the post types which are participants in any relationship.
( which is why you'll see some post types with multiple entries and some not even once )

To get the list of custom post types registered on the website, you can use a WordPress function like 'get_post_types':
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_types/

regards,
Waqar