Rewrite URL for only archive page (custom post type)

Question

There is a few Q/A about custom post URL rewrite but I haven't found any simple answer to what I'm trying to achieve.

My CTP is "event" and I have the current page structure that I want to preserve:

• siteurl.com/agenda
• siteurl.com/event/event-slug

Right now in my theme I use two files single-event.php and page-agenda.php. The latter is the archive page, because I want my archive post slug to be siteurl.com/agenda and not siteurl.com/event so I've created an additional page on my backend.

It's working like that but I'd like to know if there is a more elegant solution to only rewrite my CPT archive page URL while using the proper archive-event.php template?

Answer 1

You can have a separate slug for the post type archive by setting the slug as the value for the has_archive argument, instead of just true:

register_post_type(
    'event',
    array(
        'has_archive' => 'agenda',
        // etc.
    )
);

Now you can use single-event.php and archive-event.php for the single and archive views, but the URL for the archive will be siteurl.com/agenda.