Custom Post Type Rewrite

  • My rewrites don’t seem to be working. I got them to work by adding

    add_filter('post_type_link', 'events_permalink_structure', 10, 4);
function events_permalink_structure($post_link, $post, $leavename, $sample)
{
    if ( false !== strpos( $post_link, '%types%' ) ) {
        $event_type_term = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'types' );
        $post_link = str_replace( '%types%', array_pop( $event_type_term )->slug, $post_link );
    }
    return $post_link;
}

    to the bottom of the posttypes file but the breadcrumb is still not correct. Still just events/postname

    In Custom Tax I have:
    'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'event-type' ),

    And in Custom PT I have:

    'rewrite'            => array( 'slug' => 'events/%types%','with_front' => false ),
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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Rewrite rules are only for interpreting certain URL requests into parameters that WP can understand, they do not affect how links are output. You were correct to use a filter for this, that’s how it’s done.

    You need to look at the code that generates the breadcrumbs, it’s probably not sophisticated enough to deal with custom permalink structures.

    Thread Starter powerj

    (@powerj)

    Oh thanks so much.

    I’m using out of the box Genesis breadcrumbs – so I might try the Yoast SEO ones and failing that I guess I’ll have to learn how to edit myself.

    many thanks

    Thread Starter powerj

    (@powerj)

    How good are Yoast SEO breadcrumbs! Wow, can’t believe I haven’t used them before

    Thread Starter powerj

    (@powerj)

    Wondering if you can shed some light… I’m wondering if my thinking is faulty somewhere.

    I’ve read lots of the Yoast articles (particular on the new primary category) but I don’t really understand why it works the way it does.

    I have custom post type events – the URL for an individual event is https://www.website.com.au/postname

    I have a visual navigation on the front page that links to various archive pages of event types.

    If someone clicks on community events, they get breadcrumb home/events/community-events and if they click through on one of the events they get breadcrumb home/events/community-events/postname – great user experience. But sometimes it doesn’t work. If the event has multiple categories say ‘community-event’ and ‘entertainment’ and entertainment is the primary category – once you click from the community events archive page the event will have the breadcrumb home/events/entertainment/postname So if the user wants to click back to the archive page to keep looking through the community events, they can’t – that to me is a bad user experience.

    Am I doing something wrong – is it bad to have posts in multiple categories?

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Nope, multiple categories are quite common. However, there is no built in concept of a “primary” category. All category terms have equal standing in a post, though some terms can be subordinate to parent terms. Even as child terms, they are no less important in a post than their parent. When you query for terms assigned to a post, the first term at the top of the list is simply the first one found by SQL. (unless a sort order is specified of course)

    That said, it’s conceivable to create a primary term concept with some custom coding. But there will be no ready made breadcrumb code that would recognize such a concept.

    I understand what you’re looking for as a breadcrumb, but that’s not how most breadcrumb implementations work. Most breadcrumb trails actually represent a fixed hierarchical structure. You are looking for more of a navigation road map.

    It may not be all that difficult to build a road map style breadcrumb trail. Tracking which pages a visitor visits is pretty easy. The details of clearly representing that in a trail might be tricky. Still, you may have trouble finding such an implementation. All the ones I’ve seen are of the fixed hierarchy type. But I haven’t seen everything, there could be something out there.

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