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I'm using a lot of custom post types for creating sidebars, footers, etc and would like to hide direct viewing of these post types. Is this possible?

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register_post_type allows you to specify whether a post is 'publicly_queryable'

publicly_queryable (boolean) (optional) Whether queries can be performed on the front end as part of parse_request().

Default: value of public argument Note: The queries affected include the following (also initiated when rewrites are handled)

  • ?post_type={post_type_key}
  • ?{post_type_key}={single_post_slug}
  • ?{post_type_query_var}={single_post_slug}

It doesn't mention anything about queries of the form ?p=, and from memory, these will still serve your custom post types event with the publicly_queryable set to false. To prevent this you can hook onto template_redirect and redirect to a different (404?) page.

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  • Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. I also tested it with ?p= query and it still delivers a 404 which is what I want.
    – Ian Hoar
    Aug 13, 2012 at 22:15

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