Title: Adding a post type
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding a post type

 *  Resolved [slb535](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slb535/)
 * (@slb535)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-post-type/)
 * I’ve set this up for one post type. Now I realize I need to use it on another.
   Is there any reason I can’t declare it twice in my functions? (When I just set
   it to post-type => $type, I lose the secondary images that I’ve already added—
   it creates a new blank field.)
 * I mean this:
 * `if (class_exists('MultiPostThumbnails')) {
    new MultiPostThumbnails( array( '
   label' => 'Secondary Image', 'id' => 'secondary-image', 'post_type' => 'profile')
 *  );
    }
 *  if (class_exists('MultiPostThumbnails')) {
    new MultiPostThumbnails( array( '
   label' => 'Secondary Image', 'id' => 'secondary-image', 'post_type' => 'post'));}'
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-post-thumbnails/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-post-thumbnails/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chris Scott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisscott/)
 * (@chrisscott)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-post-type/#post-3235553)
 * Your code above *should* work. Does it not? If so, what errors are you getting?

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-post-type/#post-3235553)
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