[Plugin: Custom Post Type Permalinks] All custom post type pages and categories result in 404s

Im getting the same problem. ?? the permalink structure is working correctly but im getting 404 page not found errors. ?? Anyone?

Okay, found a solution.

1. Make your changes in Settings > Permalinks
2. Save It
3. Save It again, without changing anything.

This got it working for me. You have to save it twice for some reason. I think it has something to do with Permalink Flush or something like that (I think I read something about it on some other forum, whatever…)

LOL. Cheers!

UPDATE: For some reason this does not work when you use %postname% structure tag. :/

I managed to partially fix it by hacking the plugin code.

I replaced this line:

static public $default_structure = '/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%post_id%/';

in the plugin file with

static public $default_structure = '/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%post_name%/';

and that got %post_name% working for me. Not sure if post_id works now though but post_name is probably more useful anyway.

This doesnt work for me either. I tried your suggestions, but no luck. Is this supposed to be modifying the .htaccess file at all? they seem to be the pretty standard wp ones from what im seeing.

I’m not sure why mine works for me and not you. This doesn’t modify the .htaccess file i don’t think. This is what i have in mine –

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

which is the standard WordPress one i believe, i’m using WordPress 3.4 and my permalink rule is as follows:

/%taxonomy_name%/%postname%/

What version of WordPress are you using? Maybe the developer can shed some light on why it works for me and not you.

Also, thinking about it, i assume you refreshed the permalinks after you’d changed the line of code in the plugin? I did that as well.

Weird. It was working a bit, then stopped working when i decided to change the permalink structure. I have tried resaving multiple times and even removed the htaccess and saved permalinks again and still no difference. I keep getting 404’s. This is driving me nuts. I dont get the inconsistency I am having.

I would gladly do custom permalinks through the functions.php file if i knew a reliable way to do it per custom post type.

That’s pretty weird that it was working then stoppped. What permalink structure were you using and what did it change to? I’ll see what i was using.

You haven’t got a page with the same name as the taxonomy either have you? That’s been known to cause issues with custom post types and 404’s.

just /%campus%/%postname%/ with %campus% being a taxonomy.

I have made so many changes in general though lately that I have lost track of things. I currently have the plugin disabled as Im trying to do the rewrites manually through the functions.php file of the site theme and they are working that way for the most part, but for some odd reason i have to flush the rules on every page load (very odd).

I do know that at one point my CPT was a post type, but not its a page type if that makes any difference. It also is set for hierarchical support.

I do not have any conflicting page/post names.

Same here

Another one struggling with the same problem…

I am also having this issue, however would like to mention that I am running NGINX… which I feel may be part of the issue. Any help would be greatly appreciate, would be happy to pay for service as well.

I figured this out. The plugin folder needs to have 777 permissions. Also, if your theme is performing re-writes (as mine was, just open your theme-functions.php file and search “rewrite”). Then try removing all rewrites from the theme as well.

Note: Be sure to click the “save” button on the permalinks settings page in wordpress after setting your folder permissions to 777.

Another better solution for this problem, without making the folder to 777 (i have no idear why this could help, it makes you only available to hacker attacks):

It comes from old rewrite rules in DB (in my case).

Go to your Database, search in wp_options for (option_name)”rewrite_rules” and empty the “option_value”. Save it.

Go to permalinks (admin) and save your permalinks again.

Thats it, worked for me.

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