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This may ressemble other questions, but i'm posting my own as I couldn't find a conclusive answer that worked for me.

What you need to know

I have a custom post type (products), with a custom taxonomy (collections). My collections taxonomy is hierarchical. For example, I have a parent collection (bathroom) which will have a good number of sub collections.

What i'm trying to do

I'm trying to obtain permalinks for my products which include both the parent collection and the child collection, example

 http://<domain>/products/bathroom/collection-1/postname

What i've tried

Basically i've been playing around with the rewrite parameter when registering my CPT and Taxonomy, as well as the 'post_type_link' hook.

I've managed to get it working partially, that is, by displaying only the parent collection in the permalink.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Also, my permalink structure is : /%category%/%postname%/

Some of my code

Registering CPT / Taxonomy

 register_taxonomy( 'collection', array(  ), array(
      'label' => 'collections',
      'public' => TRUE,
      'show_ui' => TRUE,
      'hierarchical' => TRUE,
      'query_var' => 'collections',
      'rewrite' => TRUE
 ));

 register_post_type( 'product', array(
      'label' => 'products',
      'public' => TRUE,
      'publicly_queryable' => TRUE,
      'show_ui' => TRUE,
      'show_in_menu' => TRUE,
      'taxonomies' => array( 'collection' ),
      'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'author', 'custom-fields' ),
      'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'products/%collection%', 'with_front' => false, 'hierarchical' => true )
 ));

flush_rewrite_rules();

post type link hook

 if( strpos( $permalink, '%collection%' ) === FALSE )
      return $permalink;

 $terms = wp_get_object_terms( $post->ID, 'collection' );
 $tax_slug = "";

 if( empty( $terms[0]->parent ) )
 {
      $tax_slug = $terms[0]->slug;// . "/" . $terms[1]-> slug;
      //Second part 404's my permalinks, so commented out
 }
 else
 {
      $tax_slug = $terms[1]->slug;// . "/" . $terms[0]-> slug;
      //Second part 404's my permalinks, so commented out
 }

 $permalink = str_replace( '%collection%', $tax_slug, $permalink );

 return $permalink;
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I can answer your question! I just had the same exact issue myself and figured it out today, so I know exactly what you need to do.

I give very detailed instructions and code on my own question posting, so go look there and see if it solves the issue for you. Let me know how it goes or if you have more questions.

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  • Just to quickly give you a preview of the full answer, your missing the wordpress rewrite rule and you'll need to do some extra work in your filter to get the hierarchical categories.
    – Jeff
    Jan 23, 2012 at 19:42
  • Looking into it now, i'll comment back if I have questions, thanks.
    – Shane
    Jan 23, 2012 at 19:55
  • I didn't need to add any rewrite rules, but your solution helped get my permalinks working, thank you.
    – Shane
    Jan 23, 2012 at 20:06
  • Awesome. Interesting you didn't need the rewrite rules... I wonder if they are necessary for my case or not.
    – Jeff
    Jan 23, 2012 at 21:09

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