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Essential Content Types

v2.6

Essential Content Types allows you to feature the impressive content through different content/post types on your website just the way you want it.

by Catch Themes · Website

content typescustom content typescustom post typespost typestaxonomy
Rank
#1,267 24h 0 · 7d -4
Est. installs
26,113 High confidence
Total downloads
939K all time
Rating
3.7 ★ 3 reviews
Official installs
20,000+ public bucket
Support threads
0 last 2 months
Support resolved
— of threads
Tested up to
WP 7.0.7 compatibility

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Maintenance & compatibility

4 months ago

Last release

Version
2.6
Requires WP
5.9
Requires PHP
7.4
On WP.org since
2017

About Essential Content Types

Essential Content Types is a WordPress plugin by Catch Themes, first published on WordPress.org in 2017. It has 20,000+ active installations and 939,015 downloads in total, and ranks #1,267 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Over the past week it slipped 4 places. Users rate it 3.7 out of 5 across 3 reviews. Version 2.6 was released 4 months ago. It is tested up to WordPress 7.0.7 and requires WordPress 5.9 and PHP 7.4 or later. No support threads were opened in the last two months. It is listed under content types, custom content types, custom post types, post types and taxonomy. Plugins with a similar focus include Custom Post Type UI, Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types and Post Types Unlimited.

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