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Post types

A post type is a kind of content in WordPress. Posts and pages are the familiar ones; media items, menus, revisions and reusable blocks are post types too. Plugins and themes add their own: products in a shop, events in a calendar, entries in a portfolio or a form plugin.

Why it matters

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The list of post types shows what a site really manages, beyond what’s visible in the menu. A shop plugin adds products and orders; a form plugin may store every submission as content. All of them live in the same database tables as your posts and pages.

Post types aren’t the same as categories and tags, which sort content within a type. And the number of post types says little about speed. What counts is how many entries each type holds and how plugins query them.

What influences it

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WordPress: WordPress registers its own post types; every active plugin or theme can add more. When a plugin is removed, its content usually stays in the database, but WordPress no longer knows the type, so those entries are hidden from the admin.

In Permo

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The Post types section is in System info, tab Content. Its table Public post types lists the public types except media, the most published first: the name with its internal key, who added it (WordPress for its own types, a known plugin such as WooCommerce, otherwise Unknown), whether it’s hierarchical like pages, and how many entries are published. Permo reads the list with its daily count of the content. The table gives context; Permo doesn’t rate it.

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