Remove custom post type slug

Question

I'm creating a new website based on a theme using custom post type and WordPress 3.2.1.

The problem is that my content was previously using %postname% permalinks and all my SEO is build on this. Using CPT add a slug like : http://mysite.com/slug-cpt/postname

I tried this rule in the register_post_type function but it doesn't work :

'rewrite' => array('slug' => false, 'with_front' => false)

I also read this but it's not good for me : Permalinks in Custom Post types

Any idea ?

Answer 1

This is a tricky one, I had exactly the same problem but after a lot of debugging and troubleshooting I managed to fix it.

The trick is to add a new rewrite rule

function book_rewrite_rule() { add_rewrite_rule('(.*?)$', 'index.php?book=$matches[1]', 'top'); } add_action('after_theme_setup', 'book_rewrite_rule');

I posted on my blog a step by step guide: http://www.ultimatewebtips.com/remove-slug-from-custom-post-type/

Hope that's what you looking for