Creating a basic plugin

…For this course, we'll create a new plugin.…And that plugin will contain all the code that…sets up our custom post types, and our custom taxonomies.…This is the recommended method for creating custom post…types and custom taxonomies because it's easy to toggle them…on and off, and you can toggle them on and off even if you switch to a new theme.…However, in some cases, you may want to add…custom post types or custom taxonomies directly to a…theme, and you can do so using pretty much…the exact same code that we're using in this course.…

Just instead of sitting in a plugin file, it will sit within the theme itself.…To start the process, we have to create a new plugin.…So I'll go to my code editor and…find my plugins folder under WP content and plugins.…And here I'm simply going to create a new file that I call posttypes.php.…And this will be the plugin file that contains all the…code necessary to create our custom post types and our custom taxonomies.…Just like when you create a new theme or a child theme, creating a plugin…