Attention WordPress Lovers! If you are into plugins, then today we wish to introduce to you an exciting and interesting plugin - GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools. It is a plugin for management and tools collection for working with custom posts and taxonomies. The plugin adds extra widgets, custom meta boxes, custom capabilities, enhanced features and more.

We are pleased to have Dev4Press provide us with 3 lifetime standard WordPress plugin licenses for their GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools.

Overview of GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools Pro Features

• Custom Taxonomies: supporting 100% of all taxonomies features implemented by WordPress. Support editing of default taxonomies and third party taxonomies. Displaying function for registration.
• Custom Post Types: supporting 100% of all post types features implemented by WordPress. Support editing of default post types and third party post types. Displaying function for registration.
• Enhanced Features: For custom post types and taxonomies plugin implements special features: adding new items to the favorites actions in the header and adding post type to the Right Now dashboard widget, expanding queries, adding columns and filters for post editor and more.
• Custom Meta Boxes: define custom fields and create meta boxes to use with post editors for default and custom post types. Specialized fields for HTML, images, date, number or select boxes. Functions and shortcodes for embedding custom fields into the posts.
• Custom Capabilities: for post types and taxonomies, allowing managing of custom added capabilities for fine control over the users access to them.
• Import and Export Terms: the plugin can import terms for any taxonomy both flat or with hierarchy, from a plain text file, the plugin will recognize and skip duplicates and can also export terms into files.
• Attach Images to Terms: for any taxonomy, you can enable image attachment, allowing you to attach images from WP media library to individual terms. The plugin has a number of new functions for this feature.
• Post Editor Tools: toolbar options for adding terms, searching and linking terms, terms suggesting and enhanced management for terms for non hierarchical taxonomies.
• Additional templates and rewrite rules: expanding default templates with extra date and archive templates for finer control over the display for both.
• Widget - Post Types List: simple widget to show a list of custom post types with post counts (can be disabled), and linked to each custom post type archive page. You can check which custom post types to be displayed.
• Widget - Terms Cloud: similar to post tags default cloud widget, this widget can display a cloud with terms for any taxonomy. But, this widget has many more options than the default one for both filtering of terms, display and styling.
• Widget - Terms List: this widget displays a list of terms for selected taxonomy with many additional parameters for filtering. The widget can display a plain list of terms or dropdown select box to save space in the sidebar.
• New filtering functions: many functions added to expand the default WordPress functions with new features or to add new functionality like filtering posts using multiple taxonomies and terms.
• Transfer Plugin Data: this plugin can export and then import back all its settings, definitions of post types and taxonomies, definitions of meta boxes, overwrite settings for default and third party objects.

Custom Taxonomies, Post Types and Meta Boxes

GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools Pro is the ONLY plugin on the market to implement all WordPress taxonomies and post types features and it's always closely following WordPress development to match whatever is changed. You can post types or taxonomies using easy to use forms that are documented to help you decide on each option and feature.

The plugin adds a very easy to use meta boxes editor for adding custom meta boxes to any post type with any number of fields that can be specialized for images, select boxes, numbers, date and more.

Important GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools Pro Links

• Plugin Home
• Overview
• Detailed Features
• Purchase

Exclusive Enhanced Features

Unlike any other plugin, GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools Pro implements many useful additional features for post types and taxonomies. You can add taxonomies for filtering or as a column on post edit pages, you can replace default taxonomy meta boxes, expand default queries for custom post types and much more.

One of the most interesting enhanced features is attaching images to terms for any taxonomy, allowing for a nice visual touch for terms archives. This works using a simple AJAX powered interface directly from terms management pages. Functions are available to use the attached images in theme templates.

For post editor the plugins add a useful button and options on the editor toolbar to create and link terms for any taxonomy. Also, you can enhance post tags and other taxonomy meta boxes with terms suggested using Yahoo.

Widgets

The plugin has 3 widgets for terms and post types. All have extensive options for filtering of terms using post types, display options for terms sizes in the cloud, using drop down in the terms list and much more.

Import / Export

You can import or export terms for any taxonomy, even if it is hierarchical. There is file format example provided with the plugin. Also, you can export all the plugin settings including definitions for all custom post types or taxonomies to make a transfer to another installation of WordPress.

How to Win?

To participate in the contest and win a lifetime standard WordPress plugin license you just need to post a comment below and include a couple of words stating why you would like to win. The winners will be selected randomly, from the comments below. Please enter a valid email address.

The competition will be open until this Saturday, 23th July 2011. Winners will be announced on this article and will be contacted via email.

Good luck!