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I am currently running against a wall while dealing with custom taxonomies. My intent is so use a taxonomy for categories for my custom post type, as to not interfere with the default categories used in wordpress. I've got that working for now and can retrieve a custom post's categories using this method. The problem I am running into is displaying the posts when clicking on a category, meaning I probably have an issue with the archive page, as far as I've been told.

My current CPT setup - I am using a custom class to create post types and taxonomies, the options are more relevant:

$eunv_tilemanager = new Cnm_CPT(
    'eunv_tilemanager',
    array(
        'name'                  => __('Tilemanager', 'eunv'),
        'singular_name'         => __('Tilemanager', 'eunv'),
        'name_admin_bar'        => __('Tilemanager', 'eunv'),
        'add_new_item'          => __('Add new tile', 'eunv'),
        'edit_item'             => __('Edit tile', 'eunv'),
        'search_items'          => __('Search tiles', 'eunv'),
        'not_found'             => __('No tiles found', 'eunv'),
        'not_found_in_trash'    => __('No tiles found in Trash', 'eunv'),
    ),
    array(
        'menu_icon'             => get_template_directory_uri() . "/assets/dist/img/eunv-logo-menu.png",
        'show_ui'               => true,
        'public'                => true,
        'publicly_queryable'    => false,
        'query_var'             => false,
        'rewrite'               => false,
        'has_archive'           => false,
        'hierarchical'          => false,
        'exclude_from_search'   => true,
        'show_in_nav_menus'     => false,
        'supports'              => array( 'title', 'thumbnail' ),
    )
);
$eunv_tilemanager->add_taxonomy(
    'eunv_tilemanager_cat',
    array(
        'name'                  => __('Categories', 'eunv'),
        'singular_name'         => __('Category', 'eunv'),
        'menu_name'             => __('Categories', 'eunv'),
    ),
    array(
        'show_ui'               => true,
        'public'                => true,
        'publicly_queryable'    => false,
        'query_var'             => true,
        'rewrite'               => array(
            'slug' => 'posts'
        ),
        'has_archive'           => true,
        'hierarchical'          => true,
        'exclude_from_search'   => true,
        'show_in_nav_menus'     => false,
        'show_admin_column'     => true
    )
);

I've tried around changing the taxonomies rewrite, query_var, exclude_from_search and public options. I am trying to get a link like '127.0.0.1/wp-project/posts/cat-name' to work, where 'posts' isn't the word I necessarily need as slug, it could be anything.

Right now, after using the following snippet and with the above setup, I can call that exact link, but I get redirected to the base page immediately:

add_action('init', 'custom_taxonomy_flush_rewrite');
function custom_taxonomy_flush_rewrite() {
    global $wp_rewrite;
    $wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}

I would appreciate any form of help, as I'm kind of running out of ideas and haven't found any applicable solution to my problem.

Thanks in advance and best regards

Nick

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Apparently setting the option publicly_queryable of the taxonomy to true, then flushing the rewrite, then updating the permalinks solved the issue. I don't quiet understand why that's the solution, however.

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  • If you had to update permalinks after, then your code that flushes rewrites runs before you register the taxonomy. You should also remove the code that flushes on every init.
    – Milo
    Apr 13, 2018 at 12:58
  • Absolutely, I've done exactly that. However, for some reason it destroyed the archive after updating the permalinks then, so I didn't update those again. Strange behavior.
    – N. M.
    Apr 13, 2018 at 14:37
  • The order of things is wrong somewhere. It’s not clear when your taxonomy is being registered, I don’t see it hooked to an action or what else may be going on in that class, but if rewrites disappear then those rules weren’t added before the flush.
    – Milo
    Apr 13, 2018 at 15:05

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