Custom Permalinks for Custom post Type Archives?

Question

I know that WP 3.1 has added support for archives for custom post types but is there any way to customize the permalinks for them?

Answer 1

Take an example custom post type called movie the code below will create custom permalinks awesomemovies/ regardless of the one created by using the has_archive and rewrite options of register_post_type.

add_filter( 'rewrite_rules_array', 'custom_permalink_for_my_cpt' );
function custom_permalink_for_my_cpt( $rules ) {
    $custom_rules = array();
    // for archive urls
    $custom_rules['awesomemovies/?$'] = 'index.php?post_type=movie';

    // for individual post urls e.g: http://blog.com/awesomemovies/post-name/
    $custom_rules['awesomemovies/([^/]+)/?$'] = 'index.php?post_type=movie&pagename=$matches[1]';
    return $custom_rules + $rules;
}

For more information see WP_Rewrite

Answer 2

to customize the permalink of the CPT archive? Check this out http://mark.mcwilliams.me/2010/10/wordpress-3-1-introduces-custom-post-type-archives/

Basically just use the has_archive feature to change the permalink

add_action( 'init', 'mcw_projects_post_type' );

function mcw_projects_post_type() {

    register_post_type( 'projects', array(
        'labels' => array(
            'name' => __('Projects'),
            'singular_name' => __('Project')
            ),
        'public' => true,
        'show_ui' => true,
        'rewrite' => array(
            'slug' => 'project',
            'with_front' => false
            ),
        'has_archive' => true
    ) );

}

Is a way to register a CPT. The has_archive turns on the archive support. Swap that out like:

'has_archive' => 'projects'

Or what have you to adjust the permalink for the CPT archive.

Or are you looking for ways to alter the permalinks with teh CPTs in general? Which is done with the rewrite parameter http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type#Arguments

Not sure which part you are trying to do