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I don’t know how or why – by I removed my custom post type from the display rules in ACF. Now the only display rule is my Page Template. Now my custom fields are showing. Seems to me that I should be able to display these CFs on multiple pages/posts though, right?

Actually the ACFs disappeared from my posts where they were previously showing also. So they’re just completely gone from my edit screens. I read some other people selected “Screen Options” and checked “Custom Fields” but that did not work for me. They are still displaying on the front end though.

Please help?

Update: after getting feedback from several people across several forms, I found that to remove the slug and then do a rewrite (not a redirect) is SEO safe.

So I went ahead and removed the slug. Now to avoid the 404 I need a rewrite. WP has a built in class called wp_rewrite in order to achieve this. But I’ve been unable to find anything online about how to rewrite my lack of slug to go instead to /cpt-taxonomy/post or in my case specifically /%county%/%postname%

So I’m marking this as resolved for anyone who is wondering about SEO implications.

But to follow my NEW issue, I have a new thread here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/rewrite-rules-for-my-custom-post-types

Thank you, that is comforting. I’m trying out that route.

Hi all – potential solution, did you resave your permalinks? Try going into Settings > Permalinks, and just hit “Save” without changing anything. Then refresh and go back to your pages in question. Do you still get a 404?

Yes I did flush the permalinks, and reset my .htaccess to what it was before I started messing with getting rid of slugs.

It it possible I just struck a limitation with the way WordPress handles CPTs? Do you think getting rid of the slug then writing a rule to redirect is bad? Or is it the only viable solution? I am determined to solve this! haha

Hi Michael,

Thank you so much for getting back to me and offering support. The plugin is great and your quick responses are awesome!

I did give the code from the link you provided a try and it worked, but then I got a 404. I ran into this issue yesterday, and there are redirect rules I could set up to deal with the 404 but I was reading that the redirects are a hack and not good to have in this case.

Maybe I need to deepen my understanding of the CPT. What do you think I could do to have /county-state/post-title without having to make a CPT for each county? Hypothetically if I cover all 50 states eventually, with a CPT for each, that would crowd the admin menu. And then I have to make the same template for each state, replicate the custom fields for each state. But my slugs would be correct.

Basically the main concern with the slugs is SEO – if it is /county/county-state/post-title Google would crawl the site and think there is a /county/ parent page/archive but there wouldn’t be, wouldn’t this throw off the sitemap? It also wouldn’t make sense from a users standpoint to add another layer in there.

Thanks again for bearing with me here. I really appreciate the help! For real!

OK 404 issue is fixed on one post under my CPT, but not the other. I have no idea how that is even possible. There were some settings I had to change in CPT UI back to the default. I don’t understand >.<

Hi I’m having the same problem. Is there a solution for this?

Thanks for the heads up, tomorrow is good ?? Just a little more insight for when you get back:

I guess my issue really boils down to a permalink one. I can’t get rid of the CPT name from the URL, even when adjusting my permalinks. Ideally if I could get rid of that from the URL it would be perfect.

Hi I’m sorry for my delayed response. I didn’t want to disable Shift Body because that is a cool effect. ?? But div.shiftnav-wrap{ z-index:auto; } worked like a charm! Thank you so much for an awesome plugin and your timely help!

I commented out
.shiftnav-wrap { z-index:250;}
in the plugin’s shiftnav.min.css and that seemed to fix it. This isn’t ideal because if the plugin gets an update, that can be overridden, but I could not override this setting in my own/custom CSS.

So if someone can offer up a better solution, or a way to override that I didn’t try (I did z-index: 0 !important and that didn’t work) I’d appreciate it!