Folders for the types you build with CPT UI
Custom Post Type UI gives you a new content type in a minute: Projects, Team, Services, Testimonials. A few years later the Projects list holds every client you ever had.
Plathix PRO adds private folders to the list of each type you created. Group items by client, service or year and open just the folder you need. URLs, slugs and content stay as they are.
A new type takes a minute. Sorting it takes years.
Each type you create with CPT UI gets a plain WordPress list: titles, a date and the status tabs. That is fine for twenty items.
At two hundred, the team scrolls past old clients to find this month’s work. A new taxonomy just for sorting is one more thing to set up, and if it is public, one more archive on the site.
Folders give each type a private structure that only your team sees.
Quick to create, hard to sort later
People who build sites with CPT UI say a new type takes minutes. The questions come later, when the list is full and the team needs its own groups.
On the Posts list you can filter by category. On the new Resources list that filter was not there, so nobody could narrow the list.
The project is years old. Taxonomies were added along the way, and the team still wants a simple way to sort the list in the backend.
People want to open the list of all their custom posts and see at a glance how each one is grouped.
As a project grows and the content gets more varied, things get messy fast.
Folders add that order to each type’s list in wp-admin, without a taxonomy of your own. URLs and archives stay as they are.
Folders that match how you use your types
By client
One folder per client in Projects. A returning client’s work is one click away.
By service
In a Services or Team type, group items by department or office instead of scrolling through all of them.
Work to do
Projects that still need a case study, photos or a client quote, next to the list itself.
By year
Old work stays published for your portfolio and moves out of the daily list.
Each type you create, its own folder tree
One tree per type
Projects folders never mix with Team or Services folders. Turn each type on in Settings → General → Enabled Sections.
Search and tabs inside a folder
Search, the status tabs and the date filter work inside the open folder.
A Folder column
Every row shows its folder; click it to open that folder.
Drafts are counted
Folder counts include drafts, scheduled and private items, so nothing you parked goes missing.
Your post types never see your folders
| What you do | What changes | What stays as it is |
|---|---|---|
| Put a project in a folder | Its Plathix folder | Its URL, slug, parent, categories and status |
| Change the type’s labels or menu icon in CPT UI | The type’s settings | Its folders and every item in them |
| Rename or move a folder | The folder tree in wp-admin | Every URL, archive and menu on the site |
| Trash a project, then restore it | Its Trash state | Its folder: it comes back to the same place |
| Turn Plathix PRO off | The list looks like plain WordPress | Your folders wait in the database and come back |
Folders have no URLs and never appear on the site.
How we test CPT UI types
We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO and the current CPT UI version, on types created with the plugin’s default settings.
Status Planned
Results go to Plathix Lab. Each row turns into a link once it has run.
| Check | What we verify | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Enable a CPT UI type | A new type appears in Enabled Sections; the panel appears on its list. | Planned |
| Several types | Two types, two separate trees with the same folder names. | Planned |
| Slug length | A 17-character slug is listed, an 18-character slug is not. | Planned |
| Rename a slug | What the list shows after CPT UI migrates posts to a new slug. | Planned |
| Trash and restore | A trashed item comes back to its folder. | Planned |
CPT UI folders FAQ
Which of my CPT UI types can get folders?
Do folders change my URLs or archives?
Do I need to add a taxonomy?
What happens if I export my CPT UI settings to another site?
Is this in Plathix Free?
Related pages
Create types with CPT UI. Keep each list in order.
Projects, team, services and the other types you built, in folders you choose. URLs and content stay as they are.