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I use a custom post type in one of my sites for image slideshows. I have publicly queryable set to false/off but when Google crawls my site I see 404 errors for the URLs for my slideshows. I thought that by having publicly queryable off Wordpress would not create those front end URLs.

How can I completely turn off the front end URLs and pages for my custom post type?

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By adding public => false, has_archive => false, publicaly_queryable => false, and query_var => false I have successfully gotten rid of the 404 errors in Google. I also added the function provided by @Norcross just for good measure.

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  • What is your URL? – s_ha_dum Dec 1 '12 at 15:41
  • how do you edit the custom post types with those settings? Public false means I cant edit it in admin – Laurence Cope Mar 4 '16 at 14:46
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    To edit in the admin looks like you need public => true, then you have a typo to make it not visible on the front end, it should be publicly_queryable – Laurence Cope Mar 4 '16 at 14:50
  • !!!! Attention !!! There is a typo it should be 'publicly_queryable' not 'publicaly_queryable' – Tofandel Aug 6 '18 at 14:49
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Another option would be to set a 301 redirect for all the slideshow CPTs to redirect somewhere (like the home page). This would get picked up by Google, and also make sure no one accidentally gets on them

function rkv_slideshow_redirect() {
    global $wp_query;

    // redirect from 'slideshow' CPT to home page
    if ( is_archive('CPT_NAME_HERE') || is_singular('CPT_NAME_HERE') ) :
        $url   = get_bloginfo('url');

        wp_redirect( esc_url_raw( $url ), 301 );
        exit();
    endif;
}

add_action ( 'template_redirect', 'rkv_slideshow_redirect', 1);
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  • Thanks! All of my slideshow 404 errors in Google are now gone. I added public => false, has_archive => false and publicly_queryable => false and they no longer show up as 404 errors. I did add the code you provided to my functions.php file "just in case". Thanks again! – dkmojo Dec 3 '12 at 17:36
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Apparently your slideshow, not WordPress, it revealing those URLs. I assume it is wrapping the images in the slideshow with links to the custom posts, which you don't want. You need to edit the slideshow so that it doesn't do that.

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  • The slideshow uses wp_get_attachment_image_src to pull in the images within a loop so there is no link to the slideshow custom post type. I did just set the "public" parameter in my register custom post type method to false. I'll see if that helps. Thanks for your input! – dkmojo Dec 1 '12 at 15:39
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A modification to your original question, you should add

'exclude_from_search' => true,

If this is not added, the CPT will show up in search results.

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