Permalinks for parent/child pages and custom post types

Question

I have this custom structure set for my permalinks: /archive/%postname%

With this, my URLs show as example.com/parent/child, which is the desired behavior. However, I'm adding a custom post type and this permalink structure is causing undesired URLs for the CPT. I want the permalink to be example.com/news/headline, but I'm getting example.com/archive/news/headline.

Here's my CPT:

 register_post_type('news', array(
  ...
  'public'   => true,
  'rewrite'  => array('slug' => 'news'),
  'supports' => array( 'title', 'page-attributes', 'editor', 'custom-fields')
));

Is there a better permalink structure I could use to achieve the URLs I require? Or is there something missing/wrong in my CPT that would fix this issue?

Answer 1

Disable the with_front on rewrite while register_post_type.

In your case:

register_post_type('news', array(
  ...
  'public'   => true,
  'rewrite'  => array('slug' => 'news', 'with_front'=> false),
  'supports' => array( 'title', 'page-attributes', 'editor', 'custom-fields')
));

Answer 2

You can just use the "Post name" permalink structure, which is the same as /%postname%/. Pages will use the /parent/child/ structure, and your CPT - as-is - will use /news/%postname%/.