Export to register_post_type and register_taxonomy

Sometimes I use Pods to generate parameters (PHP code) for register_post_type() and register_taxonomy(). Then Pods will be disabled.

https://github.com/szepeviktor/wordpress-plugin-construction/blob/master/mu-pods-register-export/pods-register-export.php

Needs a one-line modification!

What modification was that exactly? Happy to bring your tweak over here.

Thanks.
var_export instead of var_dump in pods_debug() to make it reversible.

I know I could go pods_api()->load_pods... but it would need a big chunk of copy of the Pods plugin.

Where are you calling pods_debug() in that code?

Oh nevermind, I see now it's via the pods_debug_register param flag

Nowhere! 😄
Its output is caught and reversed (eval-ed) into PHP arrays.

I would rewrite it if you give me instructions that will end up in under 100 lines of code.

Move post type / taxonomy registration

I think what you came up with is clever, but this PR should make it easier to do what you want:

pods-framework/pods#4498

In Pods 2.7, you can hook into the pods_register_taxonomy and pods_register_post_type filters to collect all of the registrations that you'd like, the you can rebuild the register_post_type / register_taxonomy statements to use with your own export code easily from there.

I'll add an option to export to register_post_type / register_taxonomy in this Export to Code plugin too.

I'll start the rewrite as it is released on WP.org.

I'll add an option to export to register_post_type / register_taxonomy in this Export to Code plugin too.

Thank you!

@sc0ttkclark

@sc0ttkclark Curious if this alternate export method was ever added?

Today while testing this Pods export code to PHP plugin I found that adding the resulting PHP to a theme's functions.php threw a fatal error and does not enable those post types and fields in the admin. It still wants the plugin to be active?

SCF (the ACF clone) exports standalone PHP but I'd prefer to use your more, ethical, project. :-)

While trying to figure out what threw the fatal error, Claude also suggested rewriting the resulting PHP to use only register_post_type() and register_post_meta()

Doing so enabled the exported code from Pods to work wonderfully as a standalone

If Pods could export standalone code it would do 2 things:

enable Pods to be a helper plugin (the way create block theme and create content model are helper plugins for building themes)
enable the fields to all show up natively in the Block Bindings Attributes UI without needing to code the template tags

Here's the resulting code (in my example it's for team bios):

add_action( 'init', function() {
    register_post_type( 'bio', array(
        'label'         => 'Bios',
        'labels'        => array(
            'name'          => 'Bios',
            'singular_name' => 'Bio',
            'menu_name'     => 'Bios',
            'add_new'       => 'Add New Bio',
            'add_new_item'  => 'Add New Bio',
            'edit_item'     => 'Edit Bio',
            'view_item'     => 'View Bio',
            'all_items'     => 'All Bios',
        ),
        'public'            => true,
        'show_ui'           => true,
        'show_in_menu'      => true,
        'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
        'show_in_admin_bar' => true,
        'show_in_rest'      => true,
        'rest_base'         => 'bios',
        'menu_position'     => 0,
        'menu_icon'         => 'dashicons-businessman',
        'supports'          => array( 'title', 'thumbnail', 'custom-fields' ),
        'publicly_queryable' => true,
    ) );

    register_post_meta( 'bio', 'bio', array(
        'single'       => true,
        'type'         => 'string',
        'show_in_rest' => true,
        'label'        => 'Bio',
    ) );

    register_post_meta( 'bio', 'job_title', array(
        'single'       => true,
        'type'         => 'string',
        'show_in_rest' => true,
        'label'        => 'Job Title',
    ) );

    register_post_meta( 'bio', 'link_title', array(
        'single'       => true,
        'type'         => 'string',
        'show_in_rest' => true,
        'label'        => 'Link Title',
    ) );

    register_post_meta( 'bio', 'link', array(
        'single'       => true,
        'type'         => 'string',
        'show_in_rest' => true,
        'label'        => 'Link',
    ) );
} );

It's amazing cause then everything "just works" in the new Block Bindings UI:

I think what you came up with is clever, but this PR should make it easier to do what you want:

pods-framework/pods#4498

In Pods 2.7, you can hook into the pods_register_taxonomy and pods_register_post_type filters to collect all of the registrations that you'd like, the you can rebuild the register_post_type / register_taxonomy statements to use with your own export code easily from there.

I'll add an option to export to register_post_type / register_taxonomy in this Export to Code plugin too.

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