Introduction
Hi, I’m Abby from Writers Building Websites.
In the previous lesson I shared what we can do with the Books custom post type.
However, to implement custom post types in WordPress WITHOUT code we need to use a paid plugin. The GOOD news is that ACPT Pro only costs from $29 a year and will take your author website to the next level.
Using the ACPT Pro plugin we can.
- Register new custom post types. For this course I’ll create and register a Books’ custom post type.
- Create custom fields and associate them with custom post types. In this course we will create a number of custom fields specific to our Books post type.
- Display custom fields on our web pages built with the Gutenberg page builder. That’s a big one. At time of writing, June 2024, only ACPT Pro can display custom data on Gutenberg pages without extra coding by the site owner.
Compare free to paid
ACPT does have a free version but!I’m not using it in this course for 2 reasons.
- Reason number 1 is the free version has a cap of 5 custom fields and we need at least 12 for this build.
- The second reason is we use repeater fields which are only available with the Pro version. You may not have any experience with repeater fields but you’ll see how useful they are when we build the Books post type.
Download ACPT Pro
- Click on the link in the description to go to the ACPT website from the Writers Building Websites Toolkit page .
- The Toolkit page uses affiliate links so we may get a commission from the ACPT team but it does not affect the price you pay. We will always keep the toolkit page updated with available discounts so you get the best deal on what we recommend.
- From the ACPT site click on BUY PRO.
- Prices start from $29 for a single site licence.
- I strongly recommended picking up one of the lifetime deals.
- When you purchase ACPT Pro you will be emailed login details to access your account on the ACPT website.
- When you login go to downloads and copy your licence key.
- Next, download the latest version of ACPT Pro to your computer.
Install ACPT Pro
Next we will install ACPT Pro to our demo website.
- Back in your wordpress admin dashboard go to Plugins then Add New Plugin.
- Click on UPLOAD PLUGIN.
- Browse to the downloaded file which is a ZIP file.
- Select the file and click open to install it.
- When the plugin is installed click activate.
Configure ACPT Settings
- Click on the ACPT menu item in the side navigation bar.
- To fully activate ACPT Pro we need to confirm our website URL, our ACPT email account and the ACPT Pro licence key we copied earlier before activating ACPT Pro.
- Once fully activated go to ACPT then Settings.
- We are going to leave these at default after checking ACPT cache is switched on.
- Click SAVE and we’re done.
Summary
That’s all there is to installing ACPT Pro.
Ideally we could deploy custom post types without having to purchase a paid plugin. While there are free options out there ACPT Pro is a low cost solution that brings more features than the free alternatives. It also works with the Gutenberg page builder without the need for other paid products or manually adding code to the WordPress theme.
Call to Action
Don’t rush off and buy the ACPT Pro plugin just yet. Watch the rest of this module to see how easy it is to add a Books custom post and how much value it brings to an author website before making your decision.
