Installation and Setup

Promptless CPT Pages installs like any WordPress plugin and needs no licence or account. After activation, an administrator creates record types from the Post Runtime menu.

Requirements

Requirement	Version
WordPress	5.6 or later (tested up to 7.1)
PHP	7.4 or later
Promptless WP	Optional. When active, pages and cards use its design settings.
Promptless theme	Optional. Needed for post fields on the theme’s archive cards and for the archive card settings.

How to install

1. In WordPress, open Plugins → Add New and search for Promptless CPT Pages, or choose Upload Plugin and upload the plugin ZIP.
2. Select Install Now, then Activate.
3. Open Post Runtime → Post Types. The list is empty until you create your first type — see Your first record type.

Warning

Install the ZIP attached to a release, not GitHub’s “Source code” archive. The source archive unpacks to a differently named folder and installs as a second copy of the plugin.

The screens

Screen	Where	What it is for
Post Types	Post Runtime → Post Types	Create, edit and remove record types. Each row links to Groupings and Post Fields for that type.
Groupings for ”…”	The Groupings link on a type	Define the repeatable lists each record of the type can carry.
Post Fields for ”…”	The Post Fields link on a type	Define the single values each record carries.
Connector	Post Runtime → Connector	Connect an AI assistant. Off until you turn it on.

Each record type then gets its own admin menu (unless you turn off Show in admin menu), where editors add records. The record edit screen shows a Post Runtime Groupings box, and a Post Fields box once the type has at least one post field.

Who can do what

• Managing record types, fields and groupings needs the pcptpages_manage_cpts capability. Activation grants it to the Administrator role only. A developer can grant it to other roles with the pcptpages_default_manage_cpts_roles filter.
• Adding and editing records follows normal WordPress post permissions, because record types use the post capability type by default. An Editor can add and edit records, fill in their post fields and groupings, but cannot change the type’s definition.

Removing the plugin

Deactivating the plugin unregisters your record types: their records stay in the database but have no admin screens or public pages until you activate it again. Deleting the plugin from Plugins keeps everything too — record-type, grouping and field definitions, and every record’s values — and removes only caches and the capability, so reinstalling brings the records back as they were. To remove the definitions and values as well, add define( 'PCPTPAGES_REMOVE_ALL_DATA', true ); to wp-config.php before deleting; the records themselves are never deleted. Up to version 0.10.0, deleting the plugin always removed the record-type and grouping definitions.

Related pages

• What Promptless CPT Pages Is — What the plugin does for structured records, what it leaves to other plugins, and how it fits with Promptless WP and the Promptless theme.
• Your First Record Type — A short walkthrough that creates a Listing record type with a price field and an amenities list, then publishes a first listing.
• Connector Overview — The 32 connector tools grouped by task, how to turn the connector on, permissions, rate limits, version conflicts, and how deleting records and types works.
• Installing the Stack — The order to install the Promptless products, their WordPress and PHP requirements, where each one is downloaded and how it is updated.