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Where does the code belong?

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Where does the code belong?

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- [Instructor] WordPress does an incredibly good job of separating form from function. Primarily WordPress is for adding and editing content. If we want to control the design, we get a new theme, something that isn't married to WordPress Core or the content inside WordPress. If we want to add more features like a slider or contact form, we get a plugin. That means that content, design and features can be completely separate from each other. As a result, we need to take into consideration where the code for our custom post types and custom taxonomies belong. For a long time, these were added to the theme. If your theme has specific templates for a custom post type, it seemed to make sense that you'd include the custom post types there as well. However, a problem arises with this approach. If you decide to change the theme, you're effectively disabling content because it's attached to that theme. Instead we'll need to take a two-pronged approach, we'll create a plugin that houses our…

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