essential-content-types

Essential Content Types

Essential Content Types allows you to feature the impressive content through different content/post types on your website just the way you want it.

45.9 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

20.0Kactive installs

927.1Kdownloads

3.7rating

0unresolved threads

13complaints analyzed

1praise analyzed

Proof Health

Open evidence

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Download Momentum

180 days

15.0Krecent 30 days 15.7Kprevious 30 days -4.6%movement 52.7Kshown total

Related Opportunities

4 markets

Commercial opportunity Custom Post Types: Developer change safety and site customization developer change safety and site customization · final 76.2 · proof validated Commercial opportunity Taxonomy: Developer change safety and site customization developer change safety and site customization · final 62.8 · proof validated Commercial opportunity Post Types: Content publishing operations content publishing operations · final 71.1 · proof validated Commercial opportunity Content Types: Content publishing operations content publishing operations · final 69.5 · proof validated

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer

complaint support · high severity · relevance 1.0

portfolio in essential content crashes

portfolio in essential content crashes: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

Proof Blocked card complete developer change safety and site customization Evidence linked to opportunity

portfolio in essential content crashes When I try to add a new project or edit one the wp editor crashes.

complaint review · high severity · relevance 1.0

portfolio in essential content crashes

portfolio in essential content crashes: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

Proof Blocked card complete developer change safety and site customization Evidence linked to opportunity

portfolio in essential content crashes The portfolio part of this plug-in crashes the editor.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.97

Tags Pages throw a 500 server error with PHP 8.2.20

Tags Pages throw a 500 server error with PHP 8.2.20: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

Proof Blocked card complete developer change safety and site customization Evidence linked to opportunity

Tags Pages throw a 500 server error with PHP 8.2.20 Using WordPress 6.5.4 and PHP 8.2.20 and Essential Content Types Version 2.2.4.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.91

Plugin broke tag archive

Plugin broke tag archive: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

Proof Blocked card complete developer change safety and site customization Evidence linked to opportunity

Plugin broke tag archive After installation of your plugin I got this error in all of tag archive.

complaint review · high severity · relevance 0.76

This plugin gave me a critical error

A user removed Essential Content Types after a critical error blocked access to the WordPress dashboard.

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

Proof Blocked card complete developer change safety and site customization Evidence linked to opportunity

it gave me a critical error- where I couldn’t access my WP dashboard

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.93

Enable parent projects

Enable parent projects: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

Proof Blocked card complete developer change safety and site customization Evidence linked to opportunity

I was only using a tiny fraction of Jetpack’s features, but I find the content types for portfolio and testimonials indispensable, so thank you for providing a plugin that creates these CPTs without any hassle.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.88

“Service” Section Bug

“Service” Section Bug: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

Proof Blocked card complete developer change safety and site customization Evidence linked to opportunity

“Service” Section Bug Hi, I’m having trouble with a bug.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Clash with custom post types

Clash with custom post types: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

Proof Blocked card complete developer change safety and site customization Evidence linked to opportunity

Clash with custom post types I use the Essential Content Types plugin with the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin that creates a customer post type called “podcast”.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8

Sort Project in Project in Portfolio

Sort Project in Project in Portfolio: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

Proof Blocked card complete developer change safety and site customization Evidence linked to opportunity

For swift replies please post your issues and queries in out Official Plugin Support Forum https://catchplugins.com/support-forum/ Let me know if this works out!

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.79

Change slugs

Change slugs: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

Proof Blocked card complete developer change safety and site customization Evidence linked to opportunity

Change slugs Is it possible to change the slugs of the post types?

Competitor Context

2 shown

Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields weak incumbent · intel 76.9 · weakness 63.4

weak incumbent

5 unresolved support thread(s) 11 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

source 1 source 2

Custom Post Type UI weak incumbent · intel 73.7 · weakness 55.8

weak incumbent

1 unresolved support thread(s) 7 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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Repeated Themes

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Collected Signals

17 shown from 17 collected

complaint This plugin gave me a critical error (5 stars) review · 2026-06-17T20:29:17+00:00 · high severity · content types

A user removed Essential Content Types after a critical error blocked access to the WordPress dashboard.

Evidence: it gave me a critical error- where I couldn’t access my WP dashboard

bugs dashboard access content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint Plugin broke tag archive support · 2024-07-17T13:32:05+00:00 · high severity · content types

Plugin broke tag archive: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin broke tag archive After installation of your plugin I got this error in all of tag archive.

bugs compatibility setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint Tags Pages throw a 500 server error with PHP 8.2.20 support · 2024-06-21T13:18:02+00:00 · high severity · content types

Tags Pages throw a 500 server error with PHP 8.2.20: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Tags Pages throw a 500 server error with PHP 8.2.20 Using WordPress 6.5.4 and PHP 8.2.20 and Essential Content Types Version 2.2.4.

bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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neutral These strings use the esc_html() function and are not translated support · 2024-06-15T11:20:19+00:00 · medium severity · content types

These strings use the esc_html() function and are not translated: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: These strings use the esc_html() function and are not translated: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-content-types/tags/2.2.4/essential-content-types.php#L238 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-content-types/tags/2.2.4/essential-content-types.php#L239 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-content-types/tags/

bugs compatibility reporting content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint Testimonial’s title and description does not work in homepage support · 2022-08-05T22:48:18+00:00 · medium severity · content types

Testimonial’s title and description does not work in homepage: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Testimonial’s title and description does not work in homepage Hello.

bugs compatibility content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint Clash with custom post types support · 2022-06-22T04:45:11+00:00 · medium severity · content types

Clash with custom post types: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Clash with custom post types I use the Essential Content Types plugin with the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin that creates a customer post type called “podcast”.

bugs compatibility missing feature easy content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint Fixed 4 Services width drowed support · 2022-05-07T14:41:38+00:00 · medium severity · content types

Fixed 4 Services width drowed: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Fixed 4 Services width drowed I’m trying to insert only 3 services in my site but “section-content-wrapper” is every time rendered with css class “layout-four”.

bugs value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint “Service” Section Bug support · 2021-10-16T23:35:33+00:00 · medium severity · content types

“Service” Section Bug: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: “Service” Section Bug Hi, I’m having trouble with a bug.

bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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praise Simple and Easy Plugin (5 stars) review · 2021-03-11T21:11:32+00:00 · medium severity · content types

Simple and Easy Plugin: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Simple and Easy Plugin I used this plugin to showcase my Portfolio which is really nice.

bugs missing feature easy form content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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neutral Latest ECT plugin update by catch plugins mess up the archive labels support · 2020-12-08T21:32:43+00:00 · low severity · content types

Latest ECT plugin update by catch plugins mess up the archive labels: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: For the featured and project content archives it has both label and title.

compatibility missing feature support setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint portfolio in essential content crashes (1 star) review · 2020-10-27T10:52:35+00:00 · high severity · content types

portfolio in essential content crashes: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: portfolio in essential content crashes The portfolio part of this plug-in crashes the editor.

bugs compatibility performance missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint portfolio in essential content crashes support · 2020-10-23T18:02:58+00:00 · high severity · content types

portfolio in essential content crashes: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: portfolio in essential content crashes When I try to add a new project or edit one the wp editor crashes.

bugs compatibility performance support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint Portfolio orderby modified date support · 2020-09-13T15:38:16+00:00 · medium severity · content types

Portfolio orderby modified date: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is is possible to have this update in the future?

missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint Remove Sidebar from Portfolio Page support · 2020-03-27T10:26:43+00:00 · medium severity · content types

Remove Sidebar from Portfolio Page: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: But on the portfolio pages this option is missing, so the pages don’t show up in full width.

missing feature support form content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint Sort Project in Project in Portfolio support · 2019-06-21T10:16:20+00:00 · medium severity · content types

Sort Project in Project in Portfolio: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: For swift replies please post your issues and queries in out Official Plugin Support Forum https://catchplugins.com/support-forum/ Let me know if this works out!

bugs support easy reliable content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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mixed Change slugs support · 2018-07-18T08:55:37+00:00 · medium severity · content types

Change slugs: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Change slugs Is it possible to change the slugs of the post types?

bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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complaint Enable parent projects support · 2018-03-21T07:48:35+00:00 · medium severity · content types

Enable parent projects: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I was only using a tiny fraction of Jetpack’s features, but I find the content types for portfolio and testimonials indispensable, so thank you for providing a plugin that creates these CPTs without any hassle.

bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight custom post types code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence

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