Summary

Congratulations! You have taken some big steps in understanding how WordPress works as a CMS, and you have seen some of the things that the register_post_type() function can do, and hopefully you have glimpsed at what is possible with custom post types. Frankly, we found dealing with this function to be rather frustrating, but we trust that its usability and documentation will improve with future releases of WordPress. You have also learned a couple of useful tricks for constructing user-friendly plugins, and these are valuable tools as you consider releasing your plugins to a wider audience.

With that in mind, it's time to start talking about getting our plugins off the ground and available to the general public. To get us started down ...

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