Custom Post Types, Taxonomies and Fields for Avada Builder

Custom Post Types, Taxonomies and Fields is a WordPress plugin for the Avada Builder.

This plugin extends the Avada Builder Blog, Portfolio and Recent Posts elements to work with any custom post types (CPTs). Blog and Recent Posts elements are also extended to work with custom taxonomies and custom fields.

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How Does It Work?

The Avada Builder has the Blog and Recent Posts elements to show your blogs using different styles and layouts. It also has Portfolio element to show Avada’s portfolios.

The plugin creates 3 new elements similar to Blog, Recent Posts and Portfolio elements and adds several new options to it. These options allow to use any custom post types instead of the default ones.

This means that you can put any content in any place in the page using the same styles and format like in blogs, recent posts and portfolios. This opportunity will turn your blog site into the real Content Management System.

For example, if you have some events or e-learning plugin, you have custom post types created by that plugin. Now if you want to show all your events or lessons using the same styles and layouts as you have for blogs or portfolios you need to use this plugin and select the “event” post type instead of the “post”.

This plugin also adds features to filter CPTs by custom taxonomies and show custom taxonomies (like categories) with your events, lessons, or other CPTs.

Blog and Recent Posts element also have the option to show the custom fields like they show meta info. You can show max 2 taxonomies and 2 custom fields at the same time for one entry.

Please see the demo to see how it may look like.

Plugin Features

  1. Enhances Blog, Portfolio and Recent Posts to any Custom Post Type (CPT) by creating 3 new elements – Blog CPT , Portfolio CPT and Recent Posts CPT
  2. Can Filter blogs by Tags or any other Taxonomy
  3. Can filter CPT by Custom Terms and Taxonomy
  4. Can use different layouts for CPTs (Large, Medium, Grid, Alternative, Carousel, Grid with text)
  5. Builds the list of all installed CPTs
  6. Builds the list of all configured Custom Fields (Blog CPT)
  7. Builds the list of all installed Custom Taxonomies
  8. Shows only Taxonomies linked to the chosen CPTs
  9. Filtering works with both Include and exclude mode
  10. Can show any Custom Terms in CPTs listings (Blog CPT)
  11. Two different Taxonomies can be shown in Blog CPT and Recent Posts CPT elements
  12. Two different Custom Fields can be shown in Blog CPT and Recent Posts CPT elements
  13. Keeps all the other features of the Fusion Builder Blog, Portfolio and Recent Posts elements.

Quick Start Guide

After installing the plugin, create a new Page or go to modifying the existing one. Make sure that Avada Builder is used to edit the Page. Please note, that Avada Live is not supported. You have to use Avada Builder.

Go to the Elements menu of the Avada Builder and choose either Bog CPT, Recent Posts CPT or Portfolio CPT.

Bog CPT, Recent Posts CPT or Portfolio CPT have configuration options similar to the original elements but have some additional options to work with custom post types, taxonomies and fields.

Working with Blog CPT and Recent Posts CPT

Find the Blog CPT or Recent Posts CPT in the Avada Builder Elements menu. You will see them be next to the original elements.

Add the element to your page, open element’s properties and look for the “Post type” option. See the picture on the next page.

Here you can choose the custom post type (CPT) you want to show. The plugin will show you the list of all installed CPTs. After choosing the post type you may save the element, then save the page and see the plugin in action. You will get all your chosen CPT entries.

You may filter the output similar to filtering blogs by categories. In the Custom Taxonomy field choose the taxonomy you want to filter by. In the Custom Terms choose the Terms you want to be filtered. Custom Taxonomy field shows only the Taxonomies linked to the CPT selected in the option above.

You can do the same with Exclude Custom Taxonomy Terms. The difference is that entries with the selected Terms will be excluded from the output content.

You can also show Terms for custom taxonomies the same way as you show categories and tags for blogs. Similar to how you can show both categories and tags for blogs you can choose any two custom taxonomies from the Show Term 1 and Show Term 2 options.

Along with the Terms you can show two Custom Fields. You can also assign nice names for your custom fields.  For example, if you have a custom field called product_price you can select it in the Custom Field Key 1 option and put ‘Product price in Custom Field Key 1 Name option.

Working with Portfolio CPT

Find the Portfolio CPT in Select Element menu. It will be next to the original Portfolio element.

Add element to the page and open its options. Similar to the Blog CPT element, you may choose any installed custom post type and taxonomy instead of avada_portfolio post type and portfolio_category taxonomy.

Also, you may filter you CPT by custom terms, the same way you do it for portfolio category.

To learn more about managing custom content in WordPress, read our article about custom post types and custom taxonomies and fields.