Custom Post type pagination issue
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Hi. WP is notoriously annoying with paginating custom post types. Before I add random other plugins or silly code to my functions.php, I wanted to check if Permalink Manager is causing the issues.
We have a CPT called “stories”. So this permastructure works:
stories/%category%/%stories%However this gives me a 404:
stories/%category%/%stories%/page/2/I’m sure I’m not the first person to hit upon this issue. Is there a fix for this? Many thanks.
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Thank you. I actually need the page for a category of a custom post type, not for a single post.
So this is what I need:
stories/%category%/page/2Not this:
stories/%category%/%stories%/page/2Thank you for the debug_url variable. It is different as follows across the main CPT category page and the paged version.
The debug_url for
/stories/discover?debug_url=1—Array ( [uri_parts] => Array ( [lang] => [uri] => stories/discover [endpoint] => [endpoint_value] => ) [old_query_vars] => Array ( [category_name] => discover ) [new_query_vars] => Array ( [category_name] => discover ) [detected_id] => - )The debug_url for
/stories/discover/page/2?debug_url=1—Array ( [uri_parts] => Array ( [lang] => [uri] => stories/discover [endpoint] => page [endpoint_value] => 2 ) [old_query_vars] => Array ( [page] => 2 [category_name] => discover [stories] => page [post_type] => stories [name] => page ) [new_query_vars] => Array ( [page] => 2 [category_name] => discover [stories] => page [post_type] => stories [name] => page ) [detected_id] => - )I have disabled the “Category Pagination Fix” plugin (or code from Github) now. Notably, the main category page uses the
category.phptemplate, while the paged version is a 404 now. It is not picking uparchive-stories.php. If I create acategory-discover.phpit picks that up. But we have about 15 categories and I don’t see the point of creating 15 category pages if the archive for every custom post type category will be the same. According to template hierarchy which archive should I create?Many thanks for your help!
There is no possibility in either my plugin or vanilla version of WordPress to combine both:
- post type archive
- category archive
into a single archive page, eg. the archive page displaying the stories assigned to single category.
To make it working you need a custom rewrite rules, please copy the code below to PHP file and then upload it to wp-content/plugins directory and activate from admin dashboard:
<?php /* * Plugin Name: Stories Permalinks * Plugin URI: https://maciejbis.net/ * Description: Plugin that allows to adjust the CPT archive permalink format * Version: 1.0.0 * Author: Maciej Bis * Author URI: https://maciejbis.net/ * License: GPL-2.0+ * License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt * Domain Path: /languages */ /** * Get a list of filtered post types */ function bis_get_post_types($post_type = null) { $post_types = array( 'stories' => 'stories/%category%', ); return ($post_type && !empty($post_types[$post_type])) ? $post_types[$post_type] : $post_types; } /** * Register new rewrite rules */ function bis_extra_rewrite_rules() { // A. Taxonomies $post_types = bis_get_post_types(); foreach($post_types as $post_type => $structure) { $structure = str_replace('%category%', '([^/]+?)', $structure); $taxonomy = 'category_name'; add_rewrite_rule("{$structure}/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$", sprintf('index.php?post_type=%s&%s=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]', $post_type, $taxonomy), 'top'); add_rewrite_rule("{$structure}/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$", sprintf('index.php?post_type=%s&%s=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]', $post_type, $taxonomy), 'top'); add_rewrite_rule("{$structure}/embed/?$", sprintf('index.php?post_type=%s&%s=$matches[1]&embed=true', $post_type, $taxonomy), 'top'); add_rewrite_rule("{$structure}/page/([0-9]{1,})/?$", sprintf('index.php?post_type=%s&%s=$matches[1]&page=$matches[2]', $post_type, $taxonomy), 'top'); add_rewrite_rule("{$structure}/?$", sprintf('index.php?post_type=%s&%s=$matches[1]', $post_type, $taxonomy), 'top'); } } add_action('init', 'bis_extra_rewrite_rules'); /** * Flush rewrite rules */ function bis_activate_plugin() { if(!get_option('bis_flush_rewrite_rules_flag')) { add_option('bis_flush_rewrite_rules_flag', true); } } register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'bis_activate_plugin'); function bis_flush_rewrite_rules_maybe() { if(get_option('bis_flush_rewrite_rules_flag')) { flush_rewrite_rules(); delete_option('bis_flush_rewrite_rules_flag'); } } add_action('init', 'bis_flush_rewrite_rules_maybe', 20); /** * Do not redirect if post tag is detected */ function bis_do_not_redirect_tag_archive($request) { global $wp; if(!empty($request['post_type']) && !empty($request['tag'])) { $request['post_type'] = str_replace(array('products', 'posts', 'recipes'), array('product', 'post', 'recipe'), $request['post_type']); $request['do_not_redirect'] = 1; } return $request; } add_filter('request', 'bis_do_not_redirect_tag_archive', 999);Best regards,
MaciejWhen it comes to the permalinks format:
/stories (CPT)You can set this using rewrite base when the custom post type is registered:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/register_post_type#rewriteTemplate: archive-{$post_type}.php => archive-stories.php
/stories/art (category within CPT)This is controlled by the snippet I posted above.
Template: taxonomy.php or category.php
/stories/art/post (this is the single-stories.php, I know)This is controlled by Permalink Manager
Template: single-{$post_type}.php => single-stories.php
That is all I can do for you.
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