In the process of trying to create this website, I’ve been playing around with the new post type function in WordPress 3.0. Being a lazy git, finding plugins that create those post types was a great way to start.

I started with the Easy Post Types plugin, by New Signature Labs because it seemed like a good one, and was advertised on a few WP centric sites.

What a joke that turned out to be.

Their documentation only consists of the easy stuff, ie setting up the new post type. But there’s no mention of anything useful, like, maybe getting those new post types to actually display anywhere on the site.

So, I had a look at their site and found someone I could contact, along with this text:

New Signature developed Easy Post Types to streamline the process of building out complex page types in WordPress. We strive to contribute back to the web development community so that others can benefit from our innovations. The Easy Post Types plugin is community powered and your feedback on the widget is an essential part of the development process and is greatly appreciated.

All good and well, you think, right? Well, no, actually. After emailing them, I receive this reply:

Jacques,

There is documentation available online here: http://www.wpeasyposttypes.com/documentation and here http://www.wpeasyposttypes.com/demo that may provide the information you are looking for. Outside of that New Signature does provide commercial support for the Easy Post Types plugin and can help with Installation, Integration, Customizations, and Enhancements. We charge $130/hr for support and require a signed contract to be in place before any work is performed.

Best regards,

Christopher Hertz

$130 per hour? What a fucking joke.

Anyway, for anyone that may stumble across this, here’s the easy fix that New Signature Labs want you to pay $130 for.
Open up the template you want to use, ie for me, with my web_design post type, I copied an existing template and added this piece of code right before the start of the loop.
query_posts('post_type=web_design');

I then save the modified template to a new name, and use it as the active template for the web_design page, so now it displays all posts of type web_design.

Simples.