Collection vs IFTTT Post Formats & Post Types

Collection is a plugin allowing and simplifying the creation of custom post type and metabox. NOTE (beta): This plugin is very felt, it is still in development phase! Features Include Create collections of post. Adding category and tags dedicated to collections. Add metabox dedicated to collections. Add information to content with shortcode. Take control of Divi projects. Configuration Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress. Go to the plugin setting page, add your first collection and validate the changes. From your new collection exists and you can find it in the left admin menu of wordpress. You can also add a link in the different menus of the site. Click on the metabox tab. You will find your different collections and you will be able to assign them metabox personalized to each one of them. Now everything is ok, you can add items to your collections. Credits Pictures by Hélène titre “graphic designer”

IFTTT (if this, then that) is one of the coolest web services available, and allows you to connect your different web service accounts to create ‘recipes’. An example of a recipe that I have is to create a new WordPress post on my blog whenever I favorite a YouTube video. Unfortunately IFTTT doesn’t have a way to specify a post format or a custom post type, so this plugin provides a couple ways to update them. To set the post format, you need to set the category in IFTTT to one of the following categories: ifttt-aside ifttt-gallery ifttt-link ifttt-image ifttt-quote ifttt-status ifttt-video ifttt-audio ifttt-chat So for my YouTube -> WordPress recipe, I have it adding the ‘ifttt-video’ category in IFTTT (IFTTT allows you to specify the category for the posts it creates), and voilà, when it’s published, the format has been set. If you want to instead set the new post to a custom post type, you can do so by setting the category in IFTTT to one that matches this pattern: ifttt-posttype-{post_type_slug}. So if you wanted to create new WordPress pages with IFTTT, you would add the ifttt-posttype-page category. And finally, if you want the IFTTT categories to be stored as a different taxonomy, you can do so by setting the category in IFTTT to one that matches this pattern: ifttt-taxonomy-{taxonomy_slug}. Note: These speciall ifttt-* categories will not actually be set on the post/page/object. These are ‘special’ categories which simply serve as flags for which post format, post-type or taxonomy to send the data to, and they are removed from the list of categories which are actually stored to the post. Hope you find this useful! Feel free to contribute to or fork this plugin on github.