Title: Register Post Type, Attributes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Register Post Type, Attributes

 *  Resolved [dorian06](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dorian06/)
 * (@dorian06)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/)
 * I have registered a Custom Post Type, named PRODUCTS, but now, I can’t use the‘
   parent attribute’ in this kind of posts, any ideas?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561089)
 * Use [Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages) instead.
 *  Thread Starter [dorian06](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dorian06/)
 * (@dorian06)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561093)
 * Ok, Thanks for reply.
    Sure I could use pages, but I would like to use custom
   post types, with different names and different custom fields, I’m almost there,
   because I see the attributes, but just the order attribute, must be a way to 
   have parents in custom post type, or am i wrong?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561132)
 * > must be a way to have parents in custom post type
 * Set ‘hierarchical’ => true and make sure your supports include ‘page-attributes’.
 *  Thread Starter [dorian06](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dorian06/)
 * (@dorian06)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561164)
 * Thanks Michael for taking the time! I’m really trying to make this work as expected,
   but with no luck so far.
 * This is my function in functions.php
    note that, hierarchical is true, capability_type
   is PAGE and supports has page-attributes.
 *     ```
       function product_register() {  
   
               $args = array(
                  'label' => __('Products'),
                  'singular_label' => __('Product'),
                  'public' => true,
                  'show_ui' => true,
                  'capability_type' => 'page',
                  'hierarchical' => true,
                  'menu_position' => 4,
                  'rewrite' => true,
                  'supports' => array('title','editor', 'thumbnail',  'page-attributes')
                );  
   
              register_post_type( 'product' , $args );
          }
       ```
   
 * In the admin area I see Products like if the capability_type
    is POST (Bug maybe?)
   and, of course, I can’t see Parent Attribute
 * Anyway, this is how my wp-admin looks like:
    [https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3610132/products.png](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3610132/products.png)
 * Thanks for helping! appreciate 🙂
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561171)
 * You won’t see Parent until you publish at least one Product.
 *  Thread Starter [dorian06](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dorian06/)
 * (@dorian06)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561174)
 * OMG! Thx a lot, now its working great! 😛
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561182)
 * Note that I can’t get “Template” to show in the Page Attributes module, but that’s
   another subject.
 *  [kathkeating](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kathkeating/)
 * (@kathkeating)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561609)
 * did you ever figure out why you’re not seeing “template” in the page_attributes
   module? I’ve got the same issue.
 *  [madhavaji](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madhavaji/)
 * (@madhavaji)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561618)
 * Are you sure you need the template dropdown?
 * Templates apply to pages really. Your custom post type already has a template,
   it’s called ‘single-whateveryourcustompostiscalled.php’.
 * Make sense?
 * m.
 *  [kathkeating](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kathkeating/)
 * (@kathkeating)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561619)
 * yes, thanks I figured that out. I’m not using single-nnnnn.php for my custom 
   post type templates.
 * But I ended up having to implement the page-attributes support anyway because
   that’s where the “order” field is. I think this is a “miss” on the custom post
   type feature set.
 * People want to build custom post types because the capability of a “post” is 
   insufficient. For example, I want to build an Art Portfolio. An Art Portfolio
   needs to have sorting capability – it should not be sorted by date. Custom post
   types appear to be completely restricted to to behaving like “posts” not “pages”
   when it comes to these basic features.
 * A significant amount of work needs to be done to jury-rig the custom post types
   to have page-like qualities. For example, I can now set the “order” field because
   I added “page-attribute” support, but I can’t get “order” to appear in the Custom
   Post Type list. And I can’t get the Custom Post Type list to be sorted by “order”
   when it’s displayed. All of these very simple things seem to be very complicated
   to override.
 * But I’m still digging for answers!
 *  [bmil21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmil21/)
 * (@bmil21)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561651)
 * Is there a way to set a custom post type’s parent as a static page that has already
   been created. Maybe have some sort of code that enables the regular static page‘
   Parents’ to show up as they do in the pages admin section.
 * If further explaining is needed, feel free to ask.
 * Thanks for any help.
 *  [nonameolsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nonameolsson/)
 * (@nonameolsson)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561670)
 * [@bmil21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmil21/) Did you figure out how
   to do that? I also have to do that.
 *  [User Removed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjmeath/)
 * (@kjmeath)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/register-post-type-attributes/#post-1561677)
 * When you create a custom post type, is it possible to get the “Template” feature
   to show in the Page Attributes module?
 * Someone link me to some info on whats up with this.
 * Cheers!

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