Custom Post Type and taxonomy issue

  • Resolved clancel

    (@clancel)


    3 years, 4 months ago

    Hi. I created a custom post type called ‘Meetup’ and taxonomies called ‘Level’. I’m also using an Elementor Pro to create templates showing custom posts. I wish for users to be able to click the ‘level’ taxonomy and be redirected to a taxonomy archive but at the moment, it’s not being redirected. Instead, it’s showing a message that reads, “It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for.”

    I also created another custom post type called ‘NYPG Meetup’ to start new. I initially linked this CPT to a Level taxonomy created for Meetup. However, when I unclicked the level taxonomy NYPG Meetup, it still shows the posts under NYPG Meetup. Therefore, I had to unpublish the posts in order to prevent the displaying of NYPG Meetup posts that is being shown instead of Meetup posts. Can you help me with this issue?

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  • Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    Couple things here if I’m reading everything correctly.

    First up.

    WordPress doesn’t give archives for taxonomies like they do post types. For example

    This would work. Post type archive URL that shows all the posts in the meetup post type:
    https://newyorkpianogroup.org/meetup/

    This would not work. Attempted taxonomy archive URL, intended to show posts/
    https://newyorkpianogroup.org/level/

    This is a detail implemented by WordPress core and not something we’ve done with CPTUI.

    This would work. Archive URL for a term in the level taxonomy.
    https://newyorkpianogroup.org/level/level-one/

    I imagine the “It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for.” is when you’re trying to point users to visit just .org/level/ etc.

    I blogged about this more over at https://pluginize.com/how-to-create-a-taxonomy-archive-in-wordpress/ with some various custom potential solutions, but it’s still a custom solution in the end.

    Second up
    It sounds like you’re using the same taxonomy for multiple post types, and when visiting the term archives, it’s showing posts from both of post types? as the other posts still perhaps have the terms from this level taxonomy associated with them, and thus are able to be considered in the query?

    Does that sound right?

    Thread Starter clancel

    (@clancel)

    Thank you for your reply. As for a taxonomy archive, I create a taxonomy archive through Elementor Pro. So the taxonomy archive slug would be the following,

    https://newyorkpianogroup.org/level/beginner
    https://newyorkpianogroup.org/level/intermediate
    https://newyorkpianogroup.org/level/advanced

    I can’t seem to figure out why the, “It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for.” message keeps appearing.

    Would you have any ideas on this issue that is integrated with an Elementor plugin?

    Thread Starter clancel

    (@clancel)

    I also contacted Elementor Support and they told me to contact you because they said it’s a CPT UI Plugin issue. After checking, they told me that the archive template with post terms work fine with another custom post type. I also tested and found out that it worked fine with another post type. So why won’t it work with the ‘Meetup’ custom post type? I do not wish to start over and reenter all the information again because that would be very time consuming. Can you advise? Thank you.

    Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    Hi @clancel

    My sincerest apologies for not seeing these replies earlier. Did you ever figure this out? or is it still an ongoing issue?

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