Customize Custom Post Type URL

Question

Actually I needs to change the structure of my urls for the custom post type ( I also want to customise taxonomy url but only targeting post for this question to avoid confusion)

My custom post type is Property having slug properties and it have a taxonomy 'Property Category' having slug property_category

Requirement

Currently the structure of custom post type is as follow: https://domain.com/properties/postname

For custom post type I want to include categories and sub categories in the url and remove properties slug like https://domain.com/property_category/property_sub_category/**/postname

By using the plugin (Custom Post Type Permalinks) I am able to get this url https://domain.com/properties/property_category/property_sub_category/**/postname

As you see that my above url have properties in it and I have to remove it so everything is working fine till here for me.

After that, I have removed the properties from url and add function to check my property custom post type along with posts and pages so my url becomes https://domain.com/property_category/sub_category/**/postname but it breaks means giving me 404.

This url is working but I didn't need this one https://domain.com/property_postname

I believes that Wordpress ReWrite API can solve this problem but unable to figure out the actual solution for it.

Any help in this regard will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The problems that I face is already described in detail. As I guess that wordpress rewrite api can solve this problem so I have found that solution. I only have two main category for my posts so I map those to my properties because as I am removing custom_post_type name from url so there should be something to identify and map the url.

/**
 * Rewriting url
 */
function mak_rewrite_add_rewrites()
{

    // Mapping Property
    add_rewrite_rule(
        '^category_one_name(/[\S]*)+(/[\S]*)$',
        'index.php?property=$matches[2]',
        'top'
    );

    add_rewrite_rule(
        '^category_two_name(/[\S]*)+(/[\S]*)$',
        'index.php?property=$matches[2]',
        'top'
    );
}
add_action('init', 'mak_rewrite_add_rewrites');

$matches[2] represents to get value from second parenthesis in regular expression.