Aside from the normal “Add Post” link in the WP-Admin Panel, you can add a custom post type. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types#Custom_Types.
For example, if you want to add “Videos and Podcasts” as another post type, you put this in your functions.php file:
register_post_type('videos_and_podcasts', array( 'label' => __('Videos and Podcasts'), 'singular_label' => __('Video/Podcast'), 'public' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'capability_type' => 'post', 'hierarchical' => false, 'rewrite' => false, 'query_var' => false, 'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'author') )); |
More details on the options can be found here.
You should be able to see something like this in your WP-Admin:
Your new custom post type is just like a normal post type.
Combining a custom post type with a Page Template
You can take things further by combining the custom page type with a Page Template. You simply have to create a PHP file that looks like this:
<?php /* Template Name: Landing Page Test */ ?> <?php get_header(); ?> <h1>This is a test landing page</h1> <?php $args = array( 'post_type' => 'videos_and_podcasts', 'posts_per_page' => 10 ); $loop = new WP_Query( $args ); while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); the_title(); echo '<div class="entry-content">'; the_content(); echo '</div>'; endwhile; ?> <?php get_footer(); ?> <?php wp_footer(); ?> |
In your WP-Admin, when you try to add a Page, you should be able to see something like this:
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There you have it, a Page Template combined with a custom post type to display a different “frontpage” / “landing page”.