Custom Post Types under regular pages? WordPress
Hello, I am trying to organize a custom post type under regular pages:
for instance I have a custom post type: fruit
and I have pages: north, south, east, west
now I want to be able to add "fruits" to the pages and have the permalink structure to be like normal pages, so that the fruits seem to be a part of the page structure like this:
mysite.com/north/apple ("apple" is a post of the "fruit" post type)
I have parented the fruit type posts to pages. But permalinks return 404, also they currently look like this: mysite.com/fruit/north/apple (which return 404)
only way to access "apple" is by typing "mysite.com/fruit/apple", even though parent is set to "north"
The reason for this is to be able to administrate "fruit" pages different from "normal" pages. But I would still like them to be permalinked as normal pages.
Any idea how I can solve this?
Answers (3)
paul de wouters answers:
you may want to try the post2post plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/
docz comments:
I really want to be able to solve this without plugins.
Dbranes answers:
hi, you might try this code (put it into functions.php) to get url structure like:
example.com/north/apple
where apple is a post in the custom post type "fruit"
function my_rewrite_rules( $rules ) {
$newrules = array();
$newrules['^north/([^/]+)$'] = 'index.php?fruit=$matches[1]&post_type=fruit';
return $newrules + $rules;
}
add_filter('rewrite_rules_array','my_rewrite_rules');
and remember to save permalinks.
docz comments:
problem with that is that then I would have to hardcode a new rewrite rule for each page, I really need pages to be able to be added dynamically.
maybe it is possible to get
mysite.com/page/post_type/post_name? is that easier?
Dbranes comments:
you could try this rule instead:
$newrules['^([^/]+)/([^/]+)$'] = 'index.php?news=$matches[2]&post_type=news';
but then we don't have any identifier and this might overwrite any previous two parameters structure you have
example.com/()/()/
but you can try it (remember to save permalinks)
John Cotton answers:
Is north a real page (ie one that you are managing content in through the dashboard)?
If not, why not make a custom taxonomy for your fruit type with north, south etc as entries?
docz comments:
Yes, north is a real page, and I want to be able to edit it using "pages" in dashboard.
John Cotton comments:
I which case it's problem laden since your north page could have child pages and that's going to make picking up a reliable permalink harder.
You're suggestion to an earlier response - having a fix marker like 'fruit-type' in the custom permalink - is the way to go.
function my_rewrite_rules( $rules ) {
$newrules = array();
$newrules['^.*/fruit-type/([^/]+)$'] = 'index.php?fruit=$matches[1]&post_type=fruit';
return $newrules + $rules;
}
add_filter('rewrite_rules_array','my_rewrite_rules');
Save permalinks!
docz comments:
Super! That works!
Now all I need is to get the "permalink" to display correct on the dashboard admin page. Now it shows as: mysite.com/fruits/north/apple and not: mysite.com/north/fruits/apple
John Cotton comments:
Do you mean under the title bar when you're editing
docz comments:
yes
John Cotton comments:
Well, it's a completely different question, but I can tell you that it's a real pain and - personally - I've never managed to get it to work perfectly.
docz comments:
ok, I'll just set "rewrite" to false on the cpt, and remove the "permalink" edit feature.
Thank you so much for helping me!