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custom taxonomy and pages rewrite slug conflict gives 404
I'm using the Custom Post Type UI plugin to create my custom taxonomies. I have a portfolio that is made up of projects (custom post type) with 2 custom taxonomies of technologies and clients. The ...
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Custom Post Type Slug / Page Slug Conflict - Prevent use of reserved slug on page save?
I have a custom post type of portfolio (slug portfolio) in my theme and all is working well except one thing. When people create a page with a slug of portfolio, eg: example.com/portfolio, the theme ...
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Redeclare/Change Slug of a Plugin's Custom Post Type
Is it possible to redeclare/change the slug of a plugin's existing custom post type (without simply editing the plugin)?
That is, if Plugin X creates a custom post type with the slug /uncookedtoast/, ...
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Is there a maximum slug length?
A client just created a post with a really long slug (90 characters), no special characters (other than hyphens) etc.
Whenever the link to that post was clicked, including the "Preview" or "View this ...
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Is sanitize_title enough to generate post slugs?
I want to generate slug for some strings without going through WordPress slug generation flow. Therefore, I want to know which functions it calls to get a neat slug. I tried sanitize_title() but it ...
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How to prevent apostrophes and quotes from appearing in permalinks?
I'm using custom permalinks "/%category%/%postname%/". Whenever a post title contains quotes or apostrophes they appear in the URL.
Can someone tell me how prevent them from appearing in the slug?
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Wordpress slug issue with non-latin characters
I'm using permalinks in WP as: domain.com/category/post_name
The issue is that post names have non-latin characters such as chinese, hebrew, and arabic. So it encodes them to something like: ...
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Rename files during upload using variables
I'd like to rename files during upload and set their names to the post slug the files are being attached to, plus some random characters (a simple incremental counter will de just fine) to make the ...
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Post type child of another post type
This may be a stupid question but is it possible to have a post type child of another post type?
Let me explain with an example:
I created 2 post types, "Actors" and "Galleries".
What i want is to ...
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Prevent Wordpress from abbreviating-long-slugs…-in-the-admin
On post edit pages, when a slug exceeds a certain number of characters, Wordpress abridges it with an ellipsis (...). For example, if my slug is i-want-to-be-able-to-see-this-slug, it appears on the ...
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Theme localization of “slugs” (custom post types, taxonomies)
in my theme I want to define a series of custom post types and custom taxonomies, each one having its own customized slug; the base language of my theme is english, therefore the slugs will be in ...
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Change the “page” slug in pagination
Simple question. When pagination is activated, the URL changes to "site.com/page/2". For my site, this should be "site.com/paggetto/2".
How can I change that rewrite rule? I also want to change ...
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How to get a taxonomy term name by the slug?
If I know a taxonomy term slug, how can I get that term's name?
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When creating a WordPress page, a “-2” suffix is added to new pages' permalinks
I have noticed after deleting an original page in WordPress with lets say a permalink of your_domain.com/contact/ and then trying to recreate the same page with the same name/slug, my WP is generating ...
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How to i18n slugs for templates?
some templates are chosen from WordPress based on slugs (e.g. category-{slug}.php).
Problem:
How can I use the same template for an i18n'ed slug?
Example:
I have a category-news.php and an english ...
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How to seamlessly redirect between different archive and singular slugs?
I have a CPT with slug function (singular) and archive slug functions (plural).
Permalink structure for:
singular is /function/[postname]/
archive is /functions/[page-x/].
(can poke live at ...
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Removing Metabox for “Slug” without removing functionality
Here is an interesting question.
I have recently noticed that if you utilize the code
remove_meta_box('slugdiv', 'post', 'normal');
you are actually unable to modify the slug when you click on ...
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Natural URL Design and static front page
A static front page and other pages which are children of it are used on a blog. To give an example:
www.example.com
The slug for that page shows up in the permalink for sub pages like ...
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Custom Post Types, slug, archive and SEO plugins
I made a custom post type called "friends".
I am able to correctly list my friends using this urls:
http://mysite/friends/friend1/
http://mysite/friends/friend2/
http://mysite/friends/friend3/
...
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Dynamic taxonomy in permalink made all other posts NOT FOUND?
I added my taxonomies in the permalink instead of the Custom Post Type's slug, and it works fine. I'd even say everything was working fine but changing the WP installation to Multisite broke all other ...
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Force post slug to be auto generated from title on save
I'm running a property site where many properties are sold in apartment blocks.
Because of this what the content editors do is create a post/property with all the details and then use a duplicate ...
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How to control which category will be picked for the slug of a post?
I'm using the permalink structure "/%category%/%postname%/".
What bothers me is that I have posts that belong to two categories. And of course, unfortunately, Wordpress always picks the wrong one for ...
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custom slug for custom post type
hi and thanks for reading.
my issue is, i want to insert the specific author into my custom post type article.
my code looks like this
register_post_type('charts', array( 'label' => ...
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Change Author Base Slug for different Roles
is it possible to change the author base slug in dependency of the role? For example, authors get example.com/ninja/%username% and subscribers get example.com/trainee/%username% ?
I am thinking of ...
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which is the function that removes accented vowels?
Which is the function WP uses to convert words like "voilà " and "novità " to "voila" and "novita" in category slug? Can I recall it in my theme?
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How to modify author base slug with groups and slug to use nice_nickname?
After reading the following suggestions from Jan Fabry regarding URL rewrite and the author slug I took the challenge in combining both solution in one.
Change author base slug for different roles
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Limiting the number of words or characters in the slug/permalink
Limiting the number of words or characters in Wordpress slug/permalink. I would like to limit the number to the first 5 words (or 20 characters) even if the post title is longer.
example:
Title: ...
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The same slug in multiple taxonomies
We have a project that uses several custom taxonomies, and we're finding that the client wants to add the same term in several of them. While the first slug for Foo may be foo, subsequent copies of ...
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Stop Wordpress Redirection From /keyword to /some-post-containing-keyword/
I have tried everything I've found.
I can't stop webhostingbreak.com/ipage/ from redirecting to
webhostingbreak.com/hosting-directory/ipage-hosting/
I tried remove_filter('template_redirect', ...
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How do I get a post (page or CPT) ID from a title or slug?
I've scoured the Codex, failed to get get_page_by_title() to work and am quite surprised that there doesn't seem to be a standard WP function for this task.
I need to get the ID of any given post/ ...
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WordPress 3.1 removing 'category' from the slug
Is there a way to remove 'category' from the slug when viewing posts in a particular category in WordPress 3.1 without it breaking? My client is asking me to remove it, but it seems necessary - I get ...
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Removing the number in a category slug
I have a category that ends with -2, and there's no way I can change it back to the plain word. I know there are problems with numeric slugs, but this is just a word. I also know that a common answer ...
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Is It A Good Idea To Change Author Slug (user_nicename field) Directly In MySQL DB?
Searching for a how-to on changing author slug, I found two methods:
Change the user_nicename field in the MySQL database of your WordPress site to whatever you want the slug to be.
Changing the ...
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How to check if a slug exists?
I have a arbitrary string and want to check if a post with that slug string exists in the site. I tried to find a way to list all slugs, but can't find such a thing. Thanks
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Change the Author Slug from Username to Nickname
Hi to the community,
is it possible to change the default username slug to nickname if is available?
By default the url is something like: http://domain.tld/author/(admin) ,
is it possible to ...
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Create terms when registering taxonomy?
I'm registering taxonomy in my functions.php file:
register_taxonomy("our_gallery_types", array("gallery"), array("hierarchical" => true, "label" => "Categories", "singular_label" => ...
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Taxonomy archive with same slug as custom post type?
My head hurts...
Here is what I have:
Custom post type: Our People, slug => our-peopleTaxonomy: Job Title, slug => job-title
I have an archive page for the Our People CPT at domain.com/our-people.
...
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Regenerate slugs from title of posts
is it possible to regenerate the slugs programmatically after changing the titles of the post?
The girl that updated the title of more than 200 posts just "forgot" to update the slug too, so i was ...
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Adding more pages to author pages
At the moment I have the following code for changing the author_base slug.
/** ADD REWRITE RULES **/
function change_author_permalinks() {
global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->author_base = ...
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how to automatically generate random slug
I have tried to create a function that generate a random slug when a post is created. I am a bit worried that the function generates non unique strings as slugs. How can I solve this?
The function ...
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Display posts with author in the url with custom post types
I'm having a really difficult time with this.
I have a multi-user gallery site. Each author has his own page that lists the author's posts (this is a custom post type).
I have made it so that the ...
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Get page slug and assign a variable within functions.php
I have created a lazy loading script using AJAX and JSON for my blog. It works perfectly. However I have 4 different blogs on the same site. These are created using custom post types.
I need to get ...
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Using custom/dynamic “slug” for a page
I have a custom page which uses a template called "Stores" http://example.com/stores/. This page will have a list of states and/or companies as categories. For this system I have a custom post type ...
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Using custom post type parent as slug
I'm currently using the plugin 'Types Custom Post Type' to create custom post types (I know it's pretty easily done through functions.php but I was feeling a bit lazy!).
Basically, I'm looking to ...
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Why does WP rename similar “term name”-slugs in separate taxonomies?
I have several custom taxonomies and within two of those ( Company Categories and Photographer Categories ) I have a term that is similar. The Company Category called Boudoir and the Photographer ...
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Add parent template name to body class filter when visiting subpage or single post
how would I go about creating a filter for the body_class() tag that allows me to add the the parent pages slug name as a class to the body whenever visiting a subpage or post?
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How to change ?lang=cn into /cn/
I'm trying to add languages to my wordpress driven website and i installed xili-languages plugin. Unfortunately it uses lang param to differentiate between languages and i rather have seen something ...
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Custom Post Type - Same Post Name, Different Post Type
I have 4 Custom Post Types:
Services
FAQs
Prices
Before and After
I want to be able to have the same post names within each of these post types, example:
Services
Skin ...
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Remove parent slug for child pages
I'm looking for a plugin/custom function that removes the parent slug of a child's page permalink.
Something that automatically changes the permalink for child pages.
Example:
...
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Remove Author Slug & Replace With Username
I reviewed all related questions but none tackle this exactly so I'm posting the question in hopes the pro's know how to handle this. I would like to change the author slug to remove the term /author/ ...
