WordPress Rewrite Rules for Custom Post Type and Taxonomy

Question

I have found this place to be a good source of information in the past through a lot of Googling for the problems I have run into. My question pertains to the verbose rewrite rules WordPress uses.

I have set up a custom post type called project, and I have registered a custom taxonomy called projects. Everything works great except for the rewrite slug options as they end up conflicting - most likely due to the rewrite rules.

Basically this is the structure I am looking to achieve:

• example.com/work/%taxonomy%/%post_name%/ (for posts)
• example.com/work/%taxonomy%/ (list posts belonging to a particular taxonomy term)
• example.com/work/ (goes to page-work.php which includes taxonomy.php to list all posts associated with that taxonomy)

Here is the code I have so far, but I need help writing the WP_Rewrite rules as this is the bit I am a bit stumped on.

$labels = array(
    'name' => _x('Projects', 'post type general name'),
    'singular_name' => _x('Project', 'post type singular name'),
    'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'project item'),
    'add_new_item' => __('Add New Project'),
    'edit_item' => __('Edit Project'),
    'new_item' => __('New Project'),
    'view_item' => __('View Project'),
    'search_items' => __('Search Projects'),
    'not_found' =>  __('Nothing found'),
    'not_found_in_trash' => __('Nothing found in Trash'),
    'parent_item_colon' => ''
);

$args = array(
    'labels' => $labels,
    'public' => true,
    'publicly_queryable' => true,
    'hierarchical' => true,
    'rewrite' => array('slug'=>'work', 'with_front'=>false),
    'show_ui' => true,
    '_builtin' => false, // It's a custom post type, not built in!
    'capability_type' => 'post',
    'query_var' => "project", // This goes to the WP_Query schema
    'menu_position' => null,
    'supports' => array('title','editor','thumbnail', 'comments', 'author', 'excerpt')
);

register_post_type('project' , $args);

// Showcase Taxonomy
register_taxonomy('projects', array('project'), array(
    'public' => true,
    'hierarchical' => true,
    'label' => 'Project Categories', 
    'singular_label' => 'Project Category',
    'query_var' => true,
    'rewrite' => array('slug'=>'work', 'with_front'=>false, 'hierarchical'=>true)
    )
);

Many thanks for your help! :-)

Answer 1

Hope this can solve your problem

function my_custom_post_type() {
$labels = array(
    'name' => _x('Projects', 'post type general name'),
    'singular_name' => _x('Project', 'post type singular name'),
    'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'project item'),
    'add_new_item' => __('Add New Project'),
    'edit_item' => __('Edit Project'),
    'new_item' => __('New Project'),
    'view_item' => __('View Project'),
    'search_items' => __('Search Projects'),
    'not_found' =>  __('Nothing found'),
    'not_found_in_trash' => __('Nothing found in Trash'),
    'parent_item_colon' => '',
    'menu_name' => 'Projects' 
);

$args = array(
    'labels' => $labels,
    'public' => true,
    'publicly_queryable' => true,
        'hierarchical' => false,
        'has_archive' => true,
    'rewrite' => array('slug'=>'work', 'with_front'=>false),
    'show_ui' => true,
    '_builtin' => false, // It's a custom post type, not built in!
    'capability_type' => 'post',
        'query_var' => true, // This goes to the WP_Query schema
    'menu_position' => null,
    'supports' => array('title','editor','thumbnail', 'comments', 'author', 'excerpt')
);

register_post_type( 'work' , $args );

}
function my_custom_taxonomies() {

    $labels = array(
        'name' => __( 'Taxonomy', 'taxonomy general name' ),
        'singular_name' => __( 'Taxonomy', 'taxonomy singular name' ),
        'search_items' =>  __( 'Search Taxonomy' ),
        'all_items' => __( 'All Taxonomy' ),
        'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Taxonomy' ),
        'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Taxonomy:' ),
        'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Taxonomy' ), 
        'update_item' => __( 'Update Taxonomy' ),
        'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Taxonomy' ),
        'new_item_name' => __( 'New Taxonomy Name' ),
        'menu_name' => __( 'Taxonomy' ),
    );  

    register_taxonomy( 'taxonomy', array('work'), array (
                    'labels' => $labels,
                    'hierarchical' =>false,
                    'show_ui' => true,
                    'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'work/taxonomy'),
                    'query_var' => true,
                    'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
                    'public' => true,
            ));
}

add_action('init', 'my_custom_post_type', 0);
add_action('init', 'my_custom_taxonomies', 10);

what you need to create is archive-work.php (your post type archive) and taxonomy.php which will use to show your custom taxonomy archive.

Answer 2

I had the same problem and after a lot of struggling I ended up with this solution.
Just add this to your code

global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); 

---

function my_custom_post_type() {
    $labels = array(
        'name' => _x('Projects', 'post type general name'),
        'singular_name' => _x('Project', 'post type singular name'),
        'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'project item'),
        'add_new_item' => __('Add New Project'),
        'edit_item' => __('Edit Project'),
        'new_item' => __('New Project'),
        'view_item' => __('View Project'),
        'search_items' => __('Search Projects'),
        'not_found' =>  __('Nothing found'),
        'not_found_in_trash' => __('Nothing found in Trash'),
        'parent_item_colon' => '',
        'menu_name' => 'Projects' 
    );

    $args = array(
        'labels' => $labels,
        'public' => true,
        'publicly_queryable' => true,
            'hierarchical' => false,
            'has_archive' => true,
        'rewrite' => array('slug'=>'work', 'with_front'=>false),
        'show_ui' => true,
        '_builtin' => false, // It's a custom post type, not built in!
        'capability_type' => 'post',
            'query_var' => true, // This goes to the WP_Query schema
        'menu_position' => null,
        'supports' => array('title','editor','thumbnail', 'comments', 'author', 'excerpt')
    );

    register_post_type( 'work' , $args );

    global $wp_rewrite;   
    $wp_rewrite->flush_rules();    // this should help 
}

Answer 3

A more detailed explanation is on another post, but here's the basic parts you need to add:

1. Register your taxonomies and cpt's as you do. Make sure your rewrite slug for the taxo is "basename" and the rewrite slug for the cpt is "basename/%tax_name%".

2. Tell wordpress what to do with "%tax_name%" like this:

   function filter_post_type_link($link, $post)
   {
   if ($post->post_type != 'custom_post_type_name')
       return $link;
   
   if ($cats = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'taxonomy_name'))
   {
       $link = str_replace('%taxonomy_name%',array_pop($cats)->term_id, link); // see custom function defined below
   }
   return $link;
   }
   add_filter('post_type_link', 'filter_post_type_link', 10, 2);