Custom Post Types Permalinks

I just had the same problem on my page with two custom post types and ~10 custom taxonomies. Either I could access the custom post types/taxonomies but not the standard pages (although posts were okay).

I have seen a recommendation somewhere on not using /%postname%/ as permalink structure, but as I was using /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ I didn’t think that would affect me.

As I messed around with my register_post_type arguments I tried changing the rewrite setting from true into 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'film', 'with_front' => false )

That didn’t change anything at first, but it got me thinking I should try adding a url base, so I changed my permalink structure into /foobar/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/. This solved my problem, pages started to show up as well as custom post types (which I could access at /film/king-kong/ as intended).

But I didn’t want the url base in all my URLs, for example I would like to access pages at /%postname%/. To accomplish this I changed the permlink structure once again into /%category%/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ which seems to be working out fine. My permalinks now looks like this:

Pages: /page-name/
Blog posts: /blog/2010/08/post-title/
Custom post types: /post-type/post-title/
Custom taxonomies: /taxonomy-slug/tag-slug/

It seems that once you add custom post types you might get rewrite collisions between custom and built in types, depending on your permalink settings.

I’m having the same exact issues as you guys but I don’t have the option of changing the permalink structure. I need a more general solution since I’m building a free theme:

my code:

add_action('init', 'my_custom_post_type_init');
function my_custom_post_type_init()
{
  $labels = array(
    'name' => _x('Roundabouts', 'post type general name'),
    'singular_name' => _x('Roundabout', 'post type singular name'),
    'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'Roundabout'),
    'add_new_item' => __('Add New Roundabout'),
    'edit_item' => __('Edit Roundabout'),
    'new_item' => __('New Roundabout'),
    'view_item' => __('View Roundabout'),
    'search_items' => __('Search Roundabouts'),
    'not_found' =>  __('No Roundabouts found'),
    'not_found_in_trash' => __('No Roundabouts found in Trash'),
    'parent_item_colon' => ''
  );
  $args = array(
    'labels' => $labels,
    'public' => true,
    'publicly_queryable' => true,
    'show_ui' => true,
    'query_var' => true,
    'rewrite' => true,
    'capability_type' => 'post',
    'hierarchical' => false,
    'menu_position' => 5,
	'rewrite' => true,
	'taxonomies' => array( 'post_tag', 'category '),
    'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments', 'thumbnail')
  );
  register_post_type('roundabouts',$args);

}
?>

as you can see – I’m using the rewrite param and hooking the default taxonomies with it.

I also found this comment with one of the readers of Justin Tadlock: https://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress#comment-212586
but am not sure how to implement.

Please help.

I have a theme in the repo that handles all this:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/portfolio-theme

I basically used Jake Goldman’s plugin as a drop in:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/simple-custom-post-type-archives/

Thanks for this thread! ?? I have been puzzling over this for days, and still can’t get it working. Going by all the wonderful tutorials online, where people got it working just right,all I could think was that I must have done something wrong.

I also have /%postname%/ as my permalink setting (have done so since forever) and this how I’d like the posts to be displayed.

If I have permalinks disabled, so ?typename=postname is shown in the URL, then the custom post type displays perfectly.

However, once I enable custom post type permalinks, I receive 404 errors, where the url is now /typename/postname.

I’m still confused so any help is appreciated ??

add_action('init', 'my_rewrite');
function my_rewrite() {
    global $wp_rewrite;
    $wp_rewrite->add_permastruct('typename', 'typename/%year%/%postname%/', true, 1);
    add_rewrite_rule('typename/([0-9]{4})/(.+)/?$', 'index.php?typename=$matches[2]', 'top');
    $wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); // !!!
}

$wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); // !!!

@micheal can you share your entire function.php file? I am having a similar problem but with multisite, would be greatly appreciated.

@digimat1 – sorry for the late response. i’m still experiencing the error when the permalink structure is %postname%. it works fine with all the other structures – as long as you “resave” the permalink settings.

<?php
add_action('init', 'my_custom_post_type_init');
function my_custom_post_type_init()
{
  $labels = array(
    'name' => _x('Roundabouts', 'post type general name'),
    'singular_name' => _x('Roundabout', 'post type singular name'),
    'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'Roundabout'),
    'add_new_item' => __('Add New Roundabout'),
    'edit_item' => __('Edit Roundabout'),
    'new_item' => __('New Roundabout'),
    'view_item' => __('View Roundabout'),
    'search_items' => __('Search Roundabouts'),
    'not_found' =>  __('No Roundabouts found'),
    'not_found_in_trash' => __('No Roundabouts found in Trash'),
    'parent_item_colon' => ''
  );
  $args = array(
    'labels' => $labels,
    'public' => true,
    'publicly_queryable' => true,
    'show_ui' => true,
    'query_var' => true,
    'rewrite' => true,
    'capability_type' => 'post',
    'hierarchical' => false,
    'menu_position' => 5,
    'menu_icon' => get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/images/arrow-circle-225.png',
    'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'roundabouts', 'with_front' => false),
    'taxonomies' => array( 'post_tag', 'category '),
    'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments', 'thumbnail')
  );
  register_post_type('roundabouts',$args);
}
?>

I think I posted something similar. So I understand I am having the same issue let me state my problem….

If my posts are being pulled into a page named portfolio and when I click to view the full post, how do I get the url to be pagename/postname.

Is this the same issue?

Thanks

wpAdm’s solution was PERFECT for me.
When I changed the permalink structure, I was fine EXCEPT for custom taxonomies, which led to 404s.
I just put wpAdm’s code in functions.php and all is fine now.

Thank you wpAdm. That worked for my theme. In case you want to download: https://fearlessflyer.com/2010/09/free-kick-ass-theme-built-for-wp-3-rotary/

can we have a little bit more instruction on how to use that code that wpAdm pasted? Are you supposed to put your cutom post type name in place of ‘typename’? what does each parameter of the functions do? I am having trouble getting it to work.

Well I looked at Michael’s code in functions.php of the theme he posted and there was no manipulation to that code at all. I have pasted that code in and even changed my custom_post_type to be registered in functions.php rather than a plugin to handle it all. It is still not working. I have manually flushed my permalinks a bunch of times. I’m at a loss.

i actually skipped wpAdm’s solution for the default rewrite param (within my_custom_post_type_init) which works with most types of permalink structure

I got it working. Using More Types plugin to create my custom post types, I had to disable permalink feature and instead, create the permalinks using the standard register post type function in functions.php

All I want to do is add a folder name (music) before all the different post types and taxonomies that fall into that section, like…..

mysite.com/music/bands/post-name
mystie.com/music/shows/post-name
mysite.com/music/venues/post-name

With a taxonomy….
mysite.com/music/venues/out-door/post-name