> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.mainwp.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Custom Post Types > Custom Post Types is an extension for MainWP Dashboard that allows you to manage almost any custom post type on your child sites, including publishing, editing, and deleting custom post type content. ## What You'll Learn * Understanding matching CPTs between Dashboard and child sites * Registering custom post types on your Dashboard * Creating and managing CPT posts remotely * Bulk editing custom post type content ***
**Extension Add-on** - This add-on provides custom post type publishing and management inside MainWP Dashboard. **Required Plugin** - The [Classic Editor](https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/) plugin must be installed on both your MainWP Dashboard and all child sites for this extension to work correctly. Custom post types are basic posts with different parameters defined inside your code. You may have seen Products, Testimonials, Features, Projects, or similar items in your WordPress sites and wanted to manage these from your MainWP Dashboard. The [MainWP Custom Post Types](https://mainwp.com/add-on/custom-post-types/) extension allows you to manage custom post types on your child sites. To manage custom post types on your child sites, you need to have the matching Custom Post Type (CPT) on your MainWP Dashboard too. Once you register the same CPT on your MainWP Dashboard site, this extension will add the [Select sites metabox](/getting-started/mainwp-user-interface) to the Add New Item interface, and it will allow you to control where you want to publish this CPT content. Support for the CPT is also added to the Manage Posts screen, so you can search and manage CPT posts. ## What is Matching CPT? There are three required arguments for each CPT: 1. CPT Slug 2. CPT Plural Label 3. CPT Singular Label If all three are in the match, you can say that you have the matching CPTs. Let's review the example of the **Movies** CPT. On your child site(s), you have a **Movies** CPT (Slug: *movies*, Plural Label: *Movies*, Singular Label: *Movie*). To be able to manage this CPT from your MainWP Dashboard, you need to create the same CPT on your MainWP Dashboard site. ### WooCommerce Products If you want to use this extension to publish WooCommerce Products to your child site(s), it is enough to install the WooCommerce plugin on your dashboard site. The extension will automatically create support for Products. #### Important Notes MainWP Custom Post Types extension DOES NOT register CPTs on your child sites. It only allows you to manage existing CPTs. To properly use it, you need to have the same CPT on your MainWP Dashboard and child site(s). It doesn't matter if a CPT on your child sites has been created by a plugin, registered with a snippet in the functions.php, or added by your WordPress theme; this extension will be able to manage it as long as you can create the **Matching CPT** on your MainWP Dashboard site. ## Register Custom Post Types on Your MainWP Dashboard Site To do this, you have two options: Use one of these third-party plugins to register CPTs on your MainWP Dashboard site: * [Custom Post Type UI](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/) * [Pods](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/) [Read more about registering CPTs here!](https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/creating-custom-post-types-in-wordpress) After registering a CPT on your MainWP Dashboard, the MainWP Icon will be appended next to the link in the WP Admin menu, and it means that the CPT is ready to be managed through the MainWP Dashboard. ## Create a New CPT Post In the Custom Post Types box, you will be able to see all registered CPTs on your MainWP Dashboard [Select your Child Sites](/getting-started/mainwp-user-interface) where you want to publish ## Manage Custom Post Types The Custom Post Types extension allows you to manage custom post type content on your websites. It will allow you to create new CPT posts on your managed sites remotely, edit, change the status for existing CPT posts, move them to Trash, or delete trashed posts. On the **MainWP Dashboard > Sites > Content Operations > Manage Posts** page, you can find existing CPT posts and manage them without logging into each child site separately. In the Search Options, set your search preference **Status** filters will allow you to narrow down the search to selected CPT post statuses only. * **The keyword** field will allow you to find CPT posts where an entered word has been used. * **Date Range** will narrow down the search to posts that have been published in the selected date range. * **Select post type** will allow you to target a specific post type [Select wanted Child Sites](/getting-started/mainwp-user-interface) Once the search is complete, a list of found posts will appear at the bottom of the page. ## Edit a CPT Post In the Search Options, set your search preferences [Select wanted Child Sites](/getting-started/mainwp-user-interface) ## View a CPT Post In the Search Options, set your search preferences [Select wanted Child Sites](/getting-started/mainwp-user-interface) ## Delete a CPT Post ### Move CPT Post(s) to Trash In the Search Options, set your search preferences [Select wanted Child Sites](/getting-started/mainwp-user-interface) If you need to delete multiple posts at once, before clicking the Trash action, select all posts you want to move to Trash and use the Bulk Actions menu to delete them. ### Delete Permanently Since WordPress allows you to permanently delete only posts that are currently in Trash, before you can permanently delete them, you need to send them to Trash. Once they are in Trash, the **Delete** action will be available. ## Bulk Edit CPT posts