There was a question about showing cats and sub-cats in the url, like you can with regular wordpress categories. Of note here is when you register the taxonomy, there is a setting in the rewrite rules to do this.

Under rewrite, the argument pair ‘hierarchical’ => true, turns on allowing /topic/sub-topic/super-sub-topic/, based on your structure, in the example called topic.


register_taxonomy('topic', 'gam_qa',
array(
'labels' => array(
'name' => _x( 'Topics', 'taxonomy general name' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Topic', 'taxonomy singular name' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Topics' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Topics' ),
'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Topic' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Topic:' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Topic' ),
'update_item' => __( 'Update Topic' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Topic' ),
'new_item_name' => __( 'New Topic Name' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Topics' ),
),
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'hierarchical' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'q-and-a/topic', 'with_front' => true, 'hierarchical' => true ),
'capabilities' => array(
'manage_terms' => 'manage_qa_terms',
'edit_terms' => 'edit_qa_terms',
'delete_terms' => 'delete_qa_terms',
'assign_terms' => 'assign_qa_terms'
)
)
);


Then the function you call from. This is a stripped down version, using only the %topic% tag, which will be the name of your custom taxonomy.

The code looks for a parent to the topic, and as long as it finds one, adds it to the url.


function gam_qa_permalinks($permalink, $post_id, $leavename) {

$rewrite_replace =
array(
$taxonomy_slug
);
$permalink = str_replace($rewrite_code, $rewrite_replace, $permalink);
} else { // if they're not using the fancy permalink option
}
return $permalink;
}


Very basic error, not sure if I’m being silly. I’ve put the ‘// Add filter to plugin init function’ at the top of functions and then am using a custom post type called features, followed all your steps above.

I want my structure to be

features/%year%/%month/%day%/%postname%

but I’m just getting a 404 error?

add_action('init', 'feature_register');

// add to our plugin init function
global $wp_rewrite;
$feature_structure = '/features/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%';
$wp_rewrite->add_rewrite_tag("%feature%", '([^/]+)', "feature=");
$wp_rewrite->add_permastruct('feature', $feature_structure, false);


Any help appreciated, thanks

Hi, nice article, but is it possible to use a custom post meta in the permalink?

Hi

great thanks for this tutorial. It works for me, but….

when I set rewrite as “%category%” im my post custom type there is conflict with pemalink for standard post.

How can I solve this?

Hello there, thanks for your job, I have set a permalink structure for my custom type ‘spartiti’ in this way:
/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
but I would like to have my archive for this custom post type in this way:

mywebsite/spartiti

Is this possible?
Thank you

Hi,

I am having problems with creating this for two CPT,
$wp_rewrite->add_permastruct(‘event’, $event_structure, false);
$wp_rewrite->add_permastruct(‘place’, $place_structure, false);

They seem to cancel each other out, if i comment one out the other will work but not both, do u have any advice?

Steven

Hey Shibashake, thanks for the awesome post on a topic I can’t find much info on anywhere else. If you’re still checking this post, could you help? I’m having trouble implementing this, as so:

add_action('init', 'videos_rewrite');

}


Along with your post_type_link hook. The permalinks change correctly, but all head to 404 pages. Am I doing something wrong? I know the structure is to be slightly different from your own.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Thanks for this great example. However I do have a problem.
I have the custom post type “Game”. I use the code exactly as above but when this is activated my normal posts and pages won’t work anymore. It says “Page cannot be found”. Any ideas how this is possible?
I have resaved permalink structure.
The permalink for posts is /%year%/%postname%

regards,
Léon

Hi Shibashake,

Thanks for your great tutorials! Always super in-depth

I was able to follow your tutorial and get this working on a website I’m building. One question I do have though, is how can I make archives work for the cpt? i.e. I would like to display a list of all posts made in 2010 when visiting:
http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/galleries/2010/

Likewise, http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/galleries/2010/06/ would display all posts from June of 2010.

Thanks!

Good article, but I keep wondering what’s the deal with all digital women on this site hmm?