Collections and Custom Post Types

Posts are a generic content type. They can be used for blog posts, news articles, or any other type of content that is made up of a title, body, and other fields. Unlike content attached directly to pages (such as a hero image), posts are typically shown in lists (such as the latest news) and accessed dynamically.

Collections provide a blueprint for creating and managing posts. For example, you may wish to create a collection of movies. The collection has a schema that defines which fields are used for each movie such as Title, Director, Year of Release, and so on.

Creating Custom Post Types

Textstem provides a convenient Artisan command to generate new collections quickly. Run the following command to make a new Venue collection:

php artisan textstem:make:collection venue 

This will generate two new files in your project

• views/wrangler/posts/venue/schema.json
• views/wrangler/posts/venue/config.json

If you include the --wc flag, it will also make a component to display this new collection and these additional files will be created:

• app/Wrangler/Components/Venue.php
• views/wrangler/components/venue/view/default.blade.php
• views/wrangler/components/venue/list/default.blade.php

Content Packs

Content packs are zip files containing

• custom schema
• configuration
• any custom components to displaying the custom posts