Subpages Permalinks Issues

Question

my site looks like:

Page-1 (page.php)
... Subpage-1 (custom-collection.php; Custom Post Type)
...... Filtering Output-Post (custom-collection-single.php)

When I open the filtering output-post by using /%postname% for permalinks I get 404 error page.

Some code:

custom-collection.php

<?php $args = array( 'post_type' => 'weine', 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'orderby' => 'rand' );

// ============================= WHITEWINE ===============================
if( is_page('147') ) { 

$args = array(
    'tax_query' => array(
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'sorte',
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => array('weisswein')
        )
    )
);
}

// ============================= REDWINE ===============================

...

// =========================== All WINES ==================================
else {}


$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>

    <a class="item" rel="wine" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" >
    <?php the_post_thumbnail('wine-flow', array('class' => 'content')); ?>
    <!-- <div class="label">Slider Label</div> -->
    </a>

<?php endwhile; ?>

custom-collection-single.php

<?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-empty' ); ?>

<?php
    echo '<div class="wein-bottle-thumb">';
    the_post_thumbnail('wine-flow'); 

            echo '...';

?>

The Loop (loop-single-empty.php)

<?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

I try to added this to my functions.php

add_action('admin_init', 'flush_rewrite_rules');

When I use standard permalinks everything works fine for me.
.htaccess: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> ... is active

Thanks for your help.
Ogni

Answer 1

Your setup is all over the place. Lets refer to the visual overview here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Visual_Overview

Your page is going to use the page.php template.

Your custom post type weine will use single-weine.php

Your custom taxonomy sorte ( probably not the best name as it might clash ) will use the template taxonomy-sorte.php

So we can expect by default to have a weine post with the title "example" to live at:

example.com/weine/example

and the sorte taxonomy term 'examplesorte' will have its archive at:

example.com/sorte/examplesorte

What I expect you're trying to do is change it so that there is no /weine/, or you think that by using postname that it will change the link of 'weine' posts. This is incorrect, and while there is code out there that may change this, I strongly recommend against this as it introduces dangerous permalink clashes. It's also better if you use the weine URL structure to your advantage.

e.g. I would recommend modifying the rewrite base of the sorte taxonomy to use weine/sorte as it's base, giving you URLs such as:

example.com/weine/sorte/examplesorte

A Note On Flushing Rewrites

You need to flush them when your custom post types and taxonomies change, but never do it on admin_init or init. Regenerating rewrite rules is slow and expensive, and by putting it on those hooks, you're massively slowing down your site, and introducing potential bugs and problems.

I would also kill trying to set custom post types parents as that of a normal page. Use the slug in the rewrite base but go no further than that.