Title: Custom post types plugins : benchmark
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom post types plugins : benchmark

 *  [nicomollet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicomollet/)
 * (@nicomollet)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/)
 * WP3 is out and some plugins try to give a nice UI to manage custom types, taxonomies,
   and custom fields.
 * The goal is for example, to create with a UI, something like :
    - Custom type : Movie
    - Hierarchical taxonomy : Movie genre (in : action, romance, historical)
    - Keyword taxonomy : Actors
    - Custom fields :
 *  - Text field : Director
    - Date field : Release date
    - Upload file/image : Movie cover
    - Select field : Movie type (short movie, long movie)
 * I found 4 plugins that can do that, partially :
 * **Easy post types** > custom types, taxonomies, and custom fields.
    Features /
   limitations : – Only 1 field metabox by custom type. – Taxonomies are not shared
   with other types – No upload file field [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-post-types/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-post-types/)
 * **Custom post type UI** > only custom types and taxonomies, but no custom field(
   buggy, last time I checked : 23/06/2010)
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/)
 * **WP post type UI **> only custom types and taxonomies, but no custom field (
   custom fields enabled by “Custom Field Template”)
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-post-type-ui/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-post-type-ui/)
 * **More types** > still alpha version : only custom types (fields & taxonomiy 
   with More fields & More taxonomies)
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-types/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-types/)
 * I eventually will write a benchmark of theses 4 plugins (and the ones to come),
   if anyone is interested in helping me with that ?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553172)
 * You might also look at:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cms-press/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cms-press/)
   
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-taxonomies-tools/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-taxonomies-tools/)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-taxonomies/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-taxonomies/)
 *  [choibc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/choibc/)
 * (@choibc)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553410)
 * You also have to look at
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-fields/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-fields/)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/magic-fields/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/magic-fields/)
 *  Thread Starter [nicomollet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicomollet/)
 * (@nicomollet)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553440)
 * Thanks for your answers.
 *  Thread Starter [nicomollet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicomollet/)
 * (@nicomollet)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553444)
 * Here is my benchmark of the following plugins :
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-post-types/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-post-types/)
   
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-post-type-ui/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-post-type-ui/)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cms-press/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cms-press/)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-taxonomies-tools/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-taxonomies-tools/)
 * I only selected plugins that managed custom post types creation. It means the
   plugins related to taxonomies or fields only are excluded.
 * You will see at the bottom of the spreadsheet, compatibility with custom fields/
   meta boxes plugins.
 * **See the benchmark as a spreadsheet :**
    [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Am1DW8BAAHkZdFlvWjZUZ252U0ttMlM5OUN6U2g3a3c&hl=en&output=html](http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Am1DW8BAAHkZdFlvWjZUZ252U0ttMlM5OUN6U2g3a3c&hl=en&output=html)
 * The final word on this benchmark, my personal choice would be **Custom post type
   UI + Verve Meta Boxes**.
 * I think I will benchmark some of the field plugins like Verve Meta Boxes or Magic
   Fields.
 *  [yumiam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yumiam/)
 * (@yumiam)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553446)
 * Great Nico !
    Thank you for this sharing !
 *  [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553455)
 * Sorry for this longer post but this is the only place I feel smart people might
   visit who can advise me to my taxonomy issue:
 * I am attempting to achieve something which I thought would be really simple with
   wordpress 3.0 but it seems to be far more complicated than I originally thought.
   My hope is that someone (maybe you: nicomollet) can correctly provide me some
   example code on how to achieve this.
 * In its most basic element lets just say that I am creating a custom post type
   for “news” which I have in place already. Now… all I want to really be able to
   do is create a simple drop down where the author selects the news “source”. For
   example one entry would be the “The Washington Post”.
 * Up to this point I think everything works perfectly fine but were my complication
   comes into play is that I want to associate a custom thumbnail image with each
   of these new sources.
 * Now… my hope was that I could setup each “new source” as a taxonomy entry so 
   I could manage of all of them from one interface but it seems that each taxonomy
   can’t have any custom meta-fields associated with it.
 * Just to clarify this once more: I believe the solution is creating a custom meta
   box with the ability to upload a image and associate it with a specific entry
   to specific taxonomy group (in this case news sources).
 * Naturally it would of course be possible to add such a meta box directly into
   the custom post type for “news” or hard code it into the post type but this won’t
   work for me because news sources are being added all the time.
 * By being able to have custom fields associated with each taxonomy entry I would
   be able to just query the custom fields for that taxonomy and present the applicable
   image.
 * Am I loosing my mind here or is this really not possible? If not I would be shocked
   because there are so many areas where I would see such functions as highly valuable.
 * If ANYONE might be able to provide me with what I need to enter into my functions.
   php file to make this work I would GREATLY GREATLY appreciate it!
 * BTW – nicomollet… excellent writeup, this helped me out a great deal. The only
   thing I believe you did not cover which I was always curious about was the actual
   system load these plugins have when comparing them to one another and then comparing
   the use of using a plugin compared to writing the code in manually into your 
   functions.php file… anyone have any comment on this? I am always worried about
   when systems like this start bogging down the entire site…
 * Thanks in advance to anyone who might respond here!
 *  Thread Starter [nicomollet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicomollet/)
 * (@nicomollet)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553456)
 * [@binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/) :
 * Adding a custom field to a taxonomy is not a native feature for wordpress.
    There
   may have some plugins enhancing a taxonomy,…
 * Anyway, one alternative way is :
 * Example, your taxonomy term “The Washigton post” has a slug which should be “
   the-washington-post”.
    Assuming you created an image name “the-washington-post.
   png” in your : wp-content/themes/yourtheme/newssources/the-washington-post.png
 * Now in your template “single-news.php”, with :
 *     ```
       $terms = wp_get_post_terms( $post->ID , "news_source","");
       $first_term_slug = $terms[0]->slug;
       $first_term_name = $terms[0]->name;
       echo '<img src="wp-content/themes/yourtheme/newssources/'.$first_term_slug .'.png"/>'.$first_term_name;
       ```
   
 * I assume it’s not that you wanted because, this way you can’t upload the image
   with WordPress, and you have to upload it by FTP.
    You also loose the thumbnail
   generation by WP which works great.
 *  Thread Starter [nicomollet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicomollet/)
 * (@nicomollet)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553457)
 * [@binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/) :
 * Maybe this plugin will help you adding a thumbnail to taxonomies.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/taxonomy-images/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/taxonomy-images/)
 *  [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553458)
 * Thanks guys for your assistance here but I was just using that taxonomy image
   as one example.
 * Without going into a great deal of details… I need custom meta values for various
   areas. For example… regarding the Washington Post one… I wanted to have a page
   dedicated to that specific term on which I can show a bunch of meta fields/details
   on each news source (an image being one of them).
 * I am almost shocked that this is not available…?..!
 * I thought I read somewhere that the wp-users database and the categories database
   now allows for additional custom meta fields to be assigned… Am I wrong with 
   this?
 * Anyone happen to know if I could just trick the “description” field into thinking
   its the “meta” data field, removing it from the admin UI and creating my own 
   meta field essentially replicating the same functions used for post types?
 *  [taghaboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taghaboy/)
 * (@taghaboy)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553464)
 * Great work Nico
    thanks for the analyse
 *  [fusionserve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fusionserve/)
 * (@fusionserve)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553487)
 * Totally agree binarybit not being able to have custom fields on a custom taxonomy
   kills this for me
 *  [jeneenj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeneenj/)
 * (@jeneenj)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553488)
 * Great analysis! thanks so much!

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