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I've been learning about custom post types from Morten Rand-Hendriksen's great tutorial on making a WordPress portfolio theme on lynda.com. He demos how to set up a custom taxonomy for "recipes" and create links like domain.com/?recipes=post-title. I think this is really cool because you get a post-title with the contextual clue of "recipes" without being stuck with a bunch of nested hierarchical subdirectory archives that may be boring to look at and contain repetitious content.

For a large, multifaceted domain, I think it would be neat if there is a way to make a site behave as it has a permalink structure like this: domain.com/%post_type%/%postname%/ for posts and custom post types, while staying with domain.com/page-name for pages.

I'm thinking of domain.com/blog/post-name for anything in the blog, though domain.com/?blog=post-title would still work.

What do you think, and what is the most practical way to go about this?

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  • I am brand new here. Should I delete and re-post there? My first choice would be to avoid a plugin, since I'm mucking around in there trying to learn the code anyway.
    – Elizabeth Able
    Jan 24, 2012 at 3:41
  • I have flagged it to be migrated, but you would have to wait for moderator to pay attention. I would repost at the wordpress site and if this one gets migrated delete it. People get cranky if they think it's a double post. If that happens just explain politely why you have two similar posts.
    – mrtsherman
    Jan 24, 2012 at 3:42
  • I'd already shared this link via FaceBook. If migration comes w/ a redirect on this link (?), I can wait. Thanks much!
    – Elizabeth Able
    Jan 24, 2012 at 3:47
  • Yes, a migrated question will be automatically redirected
    – mrtsherman
    Jan 24, 2012 at 3:49

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When you're registering a custom post type in WordPress, one of the arguments is 'rewrite', which allows you to set up a slug for your custom post type. In your example above, you would set the rewrite argument to 'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'recipes') to create a URL structure like http://example.com/recipes/general-tsos-chicken

You can also add custom post types with a plugin like Custom Post Types UI. That plugin has a field in the advanced options for adding a rewrite slug.

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  • last night I looked over the code from Morten Rand-Hendriksen's tutorial and found (d'oh!) 'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'recipes') and got new custom post types running with the slugs I want. I haven't found all the labels and whatnot yet, but I will.
    – Elizabeth Able
    Jan 25, 2012 at 2:07

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