Functions to quickly automate making custom post types in wordpress. Heavily based on Jeffrey Way's tutorial on nettuts

custom-posts-helper.php

<?php 

// ***** Declare function that buids the post type
function add_post_type($name, $args = array() ) {
	add_action('init',function() use($name, $args) {
		
	// make post type name capitalized
		$upper = ucwords($name);
		
	// make name acceptable
		$name = strtolower(str_replace(' ', '_', $name));

	// merge default args with passed args
		$args = array_merge(
				array(
				'public' => true,
				'label' => ucwords("$name" . 's'),
				'labels' => array(
					'add_new_item' => "Add New $upper" . ''),
				'supports' => array(
					'title','editor','excerpt'), 
				'taxonomies' => array('category')
			),$args);

	// build post type
		register_post_type($name, $args );
	});
};

// ***** Declare function that builds the taxonomy
function add_taxonomy($name, $post_type, $args = array()) { 
	
	add_action('init', function() use($name, $post_type, $args) {

	// make taxonomy name capitalized 
		$upper = ucwords($name);
		$plural = ucwords("$name" . 's');

	// make name acceptable
		$name = strtolower(str_replace(' ', '_', $name));

	// merge default args with passed args
		$args = array_merge(array(
				'label' => $plural,
			),$args);

		register_taxonomy($name, $post_type, $args); 

	});
};