Custom Post Type UI

Question

I'm using the plugin custom post type ui to create a post type says movie. Everything is ok. I create a movie and its viewable at

http://localhost/wordpress/movies/test/

however, when i go on

http://localhost/wordpress/movies/

I was expecting to see test as a movie in all the list of movies but nothing is displayed

Code generated by the plugin:

register_post_type('movies', array(
    'label' => 'Movies',
    'description' => '',
    'public' => true,
    'show_ui' => true,
    'show_in_menu' => true,
    'capability_type' => 'post',
    'hierarchical' => false,
    'rewrite' => array('slug' => ''),
    'query_var' => true,
    'supports' => array(
            'title','editor','excerpt','trackbacks',
            'custom-fields','comments','revisions','thumbnail','author',
            'page-attributes',),
    'taxonomies' => array('category','post_tag',),
    'labels' => array (
          'name' => 'Movies',
          'singular_name' => 'Movie',
          'menu_name' => 'Movies',
          'add_new' => 'Add Movie',
          'add_new_item' => 'Add New Movie',
          'edit' => 'Edit',
          'edit_item' => 'Edit Movie',
          'new_item' => 'New Movie',
          'view' => 'View Movie',
          'view_item' => 'View Movie',
          'search_items' => 'Search Movies',
          'not_found' => 'No Movies Found',
          'not_found_in_trash' => 'No Movies Found in Trash',
          'parent' => 'Parent Movie',
),) );

Answer 1

Simply add has_archive => 'movies' to the arguments array you pass to register_post_type and you should be fine, since by default it is set to false.

Answer 2

Go to the admin panel and under settings tab go to the permalinks tab and once you are in the permalinks page save changes and try again. This is a hidden trick with wordpress. The cache gets cleared once you visit the permalinks page and save changes. I think this should work for you.

Answer 3

I see a number of issues with your code:

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

you can't have a slug of '' it doesn't work. There is no hack around in core to fix this, and there are good reasons regarding permalink clashes for this. I can only assume you're trying to make the custom post work like pages but it won't work this way. Change it to something else or simply make rewrite equal to true

'label' => 'Movies',

You've already defined the labels array, this is unnecessary.

Lastly, the category archive is by default only showing posts of type post. So your movies will not appear there.

To fix this, place this in your functions.php:

add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'query_post_type');
function query_post_type($query) {
  if(is_category() || is_tag()) {
    $post_type = get_query_var('post_type');
    if($post_type)
        $post_type = $post_type;
    else
        $post_type = array('post','movies'); // replace cpt to your custom post type
    $query->set('post_type',$post_type);
    return $query;
    }
}

In future, indent your code correctly ( I had to fix it in your post, it was unreadable, and unreadable code is usually broken code too ), and use a generator like this one for registering post types and taxonomies