Custom Post Type/Taxonomy Permalinks

Hey people,

I’ve searched through the ThemeForest forums, WP forums and another 10+ blogs, but still can’t find a solution to this.

Here’s my situation.

I’m trying to create a real estate WordPress theme.

I have created a custom post type called apartments (code used) and added a hierarchical taxonomy (like categories), called locations (code used).

I’ve set permalinks to category / postname .php

I have added some categories to Locations, like so:

• New York
• Brooklyn
• Los Angeles
• Cape Town

Now, in a ‘normal’ situation, where you would publish a POST (the built in ones), if I assign it the ‘Brooklyn’ category, I would get the following URL :

http://www.mysite.com/new-york/brooklyn/post-name

However, when using custom post types for the exact same situation, I cannot find a solution to include the Location taxonomy in the URL .

All I get is: http://www.mysite.com/apartments/post-name

Is there any way I can have the URL like so:

http://www.mysite.com/apartments/brooklyn/post-name.php or even http://www.mysite.com/apartments/brooklyn/post-name/

This is driving me NUTS and even after reading through many renowned WP blogs, I can’t figure it out – nothing works…

Any tips are highly appreciated

I’m not quite sure what you’re trying to do here, but if you’re trying to rename the URL ’s you could try URL rewrite method.

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html

Hope this helps!

Hi Di,

$args = array(
         'labels' => $labels,
           'public' => true,
           'show_ui' => true,
    '_builtin' => false, // It's a custom post type, not built in!
           'capability_type' => 'post',
           'hierarchical' => false,
           'rewrite' => array("slug" => "?apartments=","with_front'=>false"), // Permalinks format
           'query_var' => true,
           'show_in_nav_menus'=> false,
           'menu_position' => 5,
           'supports' => array('title','editor', 'excerpt', 'custom-fields', 'discussion', 'comments', 'author')
        );

     '_builtin' => false,
     'rewrite' => array("slug" => "apartments","with_front'=>false"), 

     'rewrite' => array("slug" => "?apartments=","with_front'=>false"), 

It may help you to find the right way.

If anybody else got the right way, let us know.

Kontent – thanks for the link, but overriding rewrite rules wouldn’t help, since I want to use WordPress

zemotion:

so the piece you have to add is:

     '_builtin' => false,
     'rewrite' => array("slug" => "apartments","with_front'=>false"), 

Thanks buddy, I actually tried that myself with no luck, forgot to specify…

Also, adding ?apartments= to the slug returns some nasty errors in the dashboard:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /home/foldername/public_html/wpinstallation/wp-includes/classes.php on line 210 //(and line 211)

However, I can publish a post, but the url looks like this:

http://www.mysite.com/?apartments/post-name

So still no luck

Kontent – thanks for the link, but overriding rewrite rules wouldn’t help, since I want to use WordPress

You can use solid url rewrite modules for WordPress then add your own custom method, some links:

http://www.binaryfortress.com/wordpress-url-rewrite/
http://simeonpilgrim.com/blog/2007/11/26/wordpress-url-rewriting/

Also, adding ?apartments= to the slug returns some nasty errors in the dashboard:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /home/foldername/public_html/wpinstallation/wp-includes/classes.php on line 210 //(and line 211)

However, I can publish a post, but the url looks like this:

http://www.mysite.com/?apartments/post-name

So still no luck

Did that and it works for me… it also got the same error but I had to flash the permalink, put them back to default save and put back my custom permalink settings

Well, i found a patch solution for that, since i guess it´s a bug on wp 3.0.

On wp-includes/canonical.php line 183 you will find this:

$category = get_term_by('slug', get_query_var('category_name'), 'category');

Patch it replacing with:

$category = get_term_by('slug', end( explode( '/', get_query_var('category_name') ) ), 'category') ;

The problem is that get_term_by doesn’t support hierarchies so when passed a second level category e.g. cars/sports it will fail and hence the rewrite is performed loosing the page information.

I had similar problem recently and that´s why i have this on favs, take a look here:

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13471

specialy here:

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13471#comment:4

I´m gonna check if this has been updated for wp 3.0.1

so, you can apply that patch and see what happens, i haven´t time yet to do it, but please, post here your results if that solved the permalink structure.

Also if this is the solution, could be a good idea to make a hook to include on functions.php and not to hardcode the wp files.

Hey guys,

Thanks for taking the time to reply, much appreciated

Unfortunately, it’s a nasty bug that I’ve yet to see a solution for.

@PerfectPixels – did what you said, no luck, it’s stilll showing site.com/?apartments=/post-name

@rg – thanks man, glad to see someone’s on it… Unfortunately, it doesn’t do anything.

Looking at the code in canonical.php, I figured my permalink structure would need to be category only, nothing else. This is what I mean:

elseif ( is_single() && strpos($wp_rewrite->permalink_structure, '%category%') !== false )

I’ve used different structures, but it doesn’t change anything

Guess I’ll have to use custom fields for locations and forget about nice URLs like site.com/apartments/new-york/brooklyn/postname.php

Anyway, thanks again for trying to help

UPDATE !

Ok guys, so I eventually figured it out…somehow…

I’m still registering a custom post type named Apartments, but I am not registering a custom taxonomy!

Instead, I use the default “category” taxonomy on this custom post type, taxonomy which we know is built into the WP core.

'taxonomies' => array('category'),

I then installed the Custom Post Permalinks plugin and, for the “apartments” post type, I specify the following structure:

Now, if I have New York as a category, with a sub-category named “Brooklyn”, my permalink looks like this:

http://mysite.com/apartments/new-york/brooklyn/postname.php

Not keen on using the default Categories taxonomy, as the site won’t be in English and I have less flexibility, but for the moment I’ll just have to say thanks and do some hacks for translating the labels in the WP admin (most likely with the .mo file…)

IMPORTANT : it doesn’t work without that plugin

EDIT : since I’ll be using multiple custom post types, I’ll update you if it all works out nice for each of them. Yeah, finally happy