Title: [Plugin: Events Manager] Custom Post Types
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Events Manager] Custom Post Types

 *  [chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brokeup/)
 * (@brokeup)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-events-manager-custom-post-types/)
 * I am having an issue on how to logically build and display certain posts. I currently
   have 3 catergories – Courses, Research Classes, Events. Here are the current 
   problems:
    - I need to store different information – meta boxes – for each category
    - I need the single posts of each category to be displayed differently
 * Is the most appropriate way to create new post types, other than the default “
   Events”, and build the custom meta boxes for each? My concern is displaying each
   single post correctly, which I assume I would then use single-$posttype.php, 
   right?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Marcus (aka @msykes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netweblogic/)
 * (@netweblogic)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-events-manager-custom-post-types/#post-2546480)
 * Tricky… depends really on how different your meta boxes are for each type. Maybe
   you could use JS to show/hide form fields in one or more meta boxes depending
   on the type chosen (e.g. via a dropdown or radio field). Then your PHP can process
   the relevant info depending on your type choice

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 * Last reply from: [Marcus (aka @msykes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netweblogic/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-events-manager-custom-post-types/#post-2546480)
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