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As much as I love WordPress’ custom post types, one of the things that put me off from using them much is that (I thought at first) I couldn’t use them with normal categories and post tags, which is a pain if you’re trying to migrate an old install to use the new functionality. Luckily, while the documentation doesn’t go out and say so, but you can use register_taxonomy to override the default core behavior to include your custom post types.

First, a refresher:

register_taxonomy($taxonomy, $object_type, $args);

$object_type accepts a string or an array of post types, including your own custom post types! Here’s an example:

register_taxonomy( 'category', array('post', 'custom_post_type_1', 'page', 'custom_post_type_2'), array(
		'hierarchical' => true,
	 	'update_count_callback' => '_update_post_term_count',
		'query_var' => false,
		'rewrite' => false,
		'public' => true,
		'show_ui' => true,
		'_builtin' => true,
	) ) ;

The above code will now add a category option to your pages and custom types :)

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Feature List

• Built in WP Pagenavi support
• Built in FFN Carousel support (bundled with theme)
• Built in asides support via custom field (set aside to true)
• Five Widget Areas
  1. Sidebar
  2. 300×250 ad space
  3. 3 Footer Widget Areas
• Two layout options
  1. Basic blog
  2. Post Boxes (ala Derek Punzalan’s The Unstandard)
• Four color schemes
• Ability to exclude posts from n categories in front page
• Ability to highlight first n posts in front page
• Customizable secondary navigation bar
• Three ways to set featured posts
  1. Feature a single category
  2. Feature posts via a custom field
  3. Feature sub-categories inside a parent category