How to query by post type in the front-end?

You can create new queries to display posts from a specific post type. This is done via the 'post_type' parameter to a WP_Query. Example: This simply loops through the latest 10 product posts and displays the title and content of them.

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Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK

Name: Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK
Rating: 4.7 (97 reviews)
Author: madalin.ungureanu

A must have tool for creating custom fields, custom post types and taxonomies, fast and without any programming knowledge.

Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator ranks #1,595 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, a 4.7/5 rating from 97 reviews, and was last updated Jul 15, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7.0.5 (Current: 7.1.1)

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Version: 2.3.9
Last Updated: Jul 15, 2026
Requires WP: 3.1+
Tested Up To: 7.0.5
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Author: madalin.ungureanu

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This plugin is for WordPress site owners and developers who want to create custom post types, taxonomies, and custom fields without writing code. It solves the problem of needing programming knowledge to set up custom meta boxes, register post types, and register taxonomies in WordPress.

Custom fields creator UI
Custom post type creator UI
Custom taxonomy creator UI
Repeater Fields and Repeater Groups
Drag and drop field sorting
Image/file upload via Media Uploader
Target specific page templates or post types
Ajax data handling saved as postmeta

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Let's consider we have a meta box with the following arguments: - Meta name: books - Post Type: post And we also have two fields defined: - A text custom field with the Field Title: Book name - And another text custom field with the Field Title: Author name You will notice that slugs will automatically be created for the two text fields. For 'Book name' the slug will be 'book-name' and for 'Author name' the slug will be 'author-name' Let's see what the code for displaying the meta box values in single.php of your theme would be: <?php $books = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'books', true ); foreach( $books as $book){ echo $book['book-name'] . '<br/>'; echo $book['author-name'] . '<br/>'; }?> So as you can see the Meta Name 'books' is used as the $key parameter of the function get_post_meta() and the slugs of the text fields are used as keys for the resulting array. Basically CFC stores the entries as custom fields in a multidimensional array. In our case the array would be: <?php array( array( "book-name" => "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", "author-name" => "Douglas Adams" ), array( "book-name" => "Ender's Game", "author-name" => "Orson Scott Card" ) );?> This is true even for single entries.

You can create new queries to display posts from a specific post type. This is done via the 'post_type' parameter to a WP_Query. Example: <?php $args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'posts_per_page' => 10 ); $loop = new WP_Query( $args ); while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); the_title(); echo '<div class="entry-content">'; the_content(); echo '</div>'; endwhile;?> This simply loops through the latest 10 product posts and displays the title and content of them.

If you want to have a custom list in your theme, then you can pass the taxonomy name into the the_terms() function in the Loop, like so: <?php the_terms( $post->ID, 'people', 'People: ', ', ', ' ' ); ?> That displays the list of People attached to each post.

Creating a taxonomy generally automatically creates a special query variable using WP_Query class, which we can use to retrieve posts based on. For example, to pull a list of posts that have 'Bob' as a 'person' taxomony in them, we will use: <?php $query = new WP_Query( array( 'person' => 'bob' ) ); ?>

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