Posty is an object orientated post type manager for WordPress. It makes it a breeze to manage your post types and any custom columns.

• Post Type
• Columns
• Sortable Columns
• Statuses
• Tags/Taxonomies

Posty has no dependencies, and requires PHP >= 7.4.

composer require keironlowe/posty

Posty provides a fluent API for managing both your post types and columns. To get started, just use the make method, providing the singular and plural names, to create a new post type. It's important to note that the register method must always be called last. Any changes made after the register method won't take effect.

Posty\Posty::make('Product', 'Products')->register();

This post type slug/ID will be automatically generated based on the singular name, so in this case it would be product. Optionally, you can pass a third argument to define this yourself.

Posty handles setting up all the labels, along with some sensible default arguments, but we know that one size doesn't fit all, so you can update these using the setLabels and setArguments methods.

Posty\Posty::make('Product', 'Products')
    ->setLabels()
    ->setArguments()
    ->register();

Both setLabels and setArguments should receive an array, this can either by passed directly, or as a result of a callback function.

Posty\Posty::make('Product', 'Products')
    ->setLabels([
        // All labels
    ])
    ->register();

Posty\Posty::make('Product', 'Products')
    ->setLabels(function ($labels) {
        $labels['menu_name'] = 'Overwrite value'

        return $labels;
    })
    ->register();

To manage the columns, we first need to grab the ColumnRepository instance using the columns method. This class has the add, remove and reorder methods. Each of these methods should receive an array, this can either by passed directly, or as a result of a callback function.

$products = Posty\Posty::make('Product', 'Products');
$columns  = $products->columns();

The add method should receive an array of columns. Each column should be an array of key => value pairs, with two required elements, label and value

The label is the label for the column, and the value should be a function which takes the ID of the post, and returns the correct value. Optionally, there is also the order element, which should be an integer and allows you to reorder the column.

The ID of the field is automatically generated from the label, but in the case you need to manually set this, you can use the id element.

You can make the column sortable by setting the sort element to either alpha or numeric.

$columns->add([
    [
        'label' => 'Price'
        'value' => fn (int $post_id) => get_field('price', $post_id)
        'order' => 2,
        'sort'  => 'numeric'
    ],
    [
        'label' => 'Image'
        'value' => fn (int $post_id) => get_field('image', $post_id)
        'order' => 3,
        'id'    => 'alternate_image',
        'sort'  => 'alpha'
    ]
]);

$columns->add(function (array $existingColumns) {
    // Return column array
});

The remove method should receive an array of column IDs to be removed. By default, custom post types have cb (checkbox), title, author and date columns which you can remove if neccessary.

$columns->remove(['author', 'date']);

The reorder method should receive an array of column IDs in the order that you wish. By default, custom post types have cb (checkbox), title, author and date columns which you should bear in mind when reordering. Any columns that aren't included in the array will be added at the end.

$columns->reorder(['cb', 'title', 'price', 'image']);