Custom Post Type names filter

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  • July 22, 2014 at 7:36 am #9341

    purpleedge
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    I created a new custom post type and I called it gd_dining this creates a cpt called gd_gd_dining which shows up in the widgets as “gd_”

    I couldn’t figure out how to rename it to “dining” – tried and failed to edit the database, so I deleted it and got this rather confusing message…

    “If you have create (gd_gd_dining) same name post type than all its data are assing to new post type. If no, click on delete link to delete all related data to this post type (gd_gd_dining). Delete”

    Two suggestions:

    1. Maybe you can filter out, or warn about, non alpha characters when creating CPT names?
    2. Maybe you can rewrite the above message?

    JAT, I’ve learned my lesson. 🙂

    July 22, 2014 at 7:56 am #9342

    Vikas
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    Sorry for this wrong message. I will write correct message in next release.

    Thanks

    July 22, 2014 at 8:01 am #9343

    purpleedge
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    Thanks Vikas, I just discovered that there is a filter for uppercase letters when creating a new CPT, but if there is an underscore in the name the View Posts Widget only displays the characters up to the underscore, which might cause problems. So you might want to have a look at that too?

    July 22, 2014 at 8:11 am #9346

    Vikas
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    Next time this message will say something like this.

    ‘Click to Delete all posts of (gd_gd_dining) post type. If you don’t delete posts of this post type now and create a same name post types in future then all the posts will be assigned to (gd_gd_dining) post type again.’

    Thanks for spotting my mistake.

    July 22, 2014 at 8:25 am #9348

    purpleedge
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    I deleted gd_gd_dining CPT, after deleting the listings I had created for it. I also chose the “delete” link above.

    But unfortunately it has broken the WP menu and I can’t access the menu editor any more.

    Values for gd_gd_dining were still left in “options”, “postmeta” and “term_taxonomy” tables.

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