Working on a client site I've encounter my worst enemy... WP URL rewrite :(. I actually can't figure it out and after many days trying and searching, I can't make it work. What I'm trying to get is a permalink like this `company.com/product/%product-name%/` regardless of the `/parent/child/` nesting depth. I do need the functionalities of the hierarchical pages for other reasons, but it should not appear in the URL. Here is my set up: * Wordpress 4.4.1 * Permalink settings set to `Post name` * I created a hierarchical custom post type `product` with rewrite parameter to false. $args = array( 'label' => __( 'Product', 'domain' ), 'description' => __( 'Company products', 'domain' ), 'labels' => $labels, 'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'thumbnail', 'revisions', 'page-attributes' ), 'taxonomies' => array( 'category', 'post_tag' ), 'hierarchical' => true, 'public' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_in_menu' => true, 'menu_position' => 5, 'show_in_admin_bar' => true, 'show_in_nav_menus' => false, 'can_export' => true, 'has_archive' => true, 'exclude_from_search' => false, 'publicly_queryable' => true, 'rewrite' => false, 'capability_type' => 'page', ); register_post_type( 'product', $args ); At this point the products don't have a pretty permalink, they look like this and they both work: 1. First level: `company.com/?product=my-first-product` -> ok 2. Second level: `company.com/?product=my-first-product/child-product` -> ok After that, I registered the rewrite rule and permastruct then flushed the rewrite rules by saving changes in the permalink settings page function bvt_product_rewrite_rule() { add_rewrite_rule( '^product/([^/]+)/?$', 'index.php?post_type=product&pagename=$matches[1]', 'top' ); add_permastruct( 'product', '/product/%product%/' ); } add_action( 'init', 'bvt_product_rewrite_rule', 10 ); Now the permalinks where correctly displayed for first level page but not correct for child page. Also both levels gave me a 404 error. 1. First Level: `company.com/product/my-first-product/` -> 404 2. Second Level: `company.com/product/my-first-product/child-product/` -> 404 I also tried a solution given here https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/101077/86838 where it allowed to remove the parent slug from child permalink, but I was still unsuccessful function bvt_product_flatten_hierarchies( $post_link, $post ) { if ( 'product' != $post->post_type ) { return $post_link; } $uri = ''; foreach ( $post->ancestors as $parent ) { $uri = get_post( $parent )->post_name . "/" . $uri; } return str_replace( $uri, '', $post_link ); } add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'bvt_product_flatten_hierarchies', 10, 2 ); I installed two plugins **debug-bar** and **monkeyman-rewrite-analyzer** to analyse the rewrite and query, but I keep can't make it work. My last try was with **wp-permastructure** plugin with allow to set custom permalink to custom post type. Which enables the custom setting `permastruct` in the `rewrite` array option of the `register_post_type`. [...] 'publicly_queryable' => true, 'rewrite' => array( 'permastruct' => '/%postname%/', ), 'capability_type' => 'page', [...] With this setting and both previous custom rewrite/permatruct/flatten_hierarchies desabled, it worked as stated by the plugin description 1. First Level: `company.com/my-first-product/` -> ok 2. Second Level: `company.com/child-product/` -> ok But now the `/product/` level is missing, and if I try to put it in the `'permastruct' => '/product/%postname%/'` config it brings me back to both a 404 error. Which leads to my main question. Is it possible to do what I need to or only as close as I could go with the latest plugin ? Thanks already for anybody who will take the time to answer me, and maybe save me from my poor situation. Thanks PS I can't insert more than two links in the body so here is the mentioned plugin links: https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-bar/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/monkeyman-rewrite-analyzer/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-permastructure/