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1. Christine
   Moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I created a custom post type for my testimonials and set up a genre taxonomy for these.

   I can display the links to the various genre and when I click on the link, I do get the testimonials with the correct taxonomy, but it's displaying them using the archive.php template.

   I want to display them differently and so set up a archive-testimonial.php template, but it's just being ignored.

   I tried naming it category-testimonial.php, taxonomy-testimonial.php, but nothing works.

   Here is the link to the testimonials if it helps.

   http://www.leeashley.com/wp/testimonials/

2. Tyler Sticka
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Saw your plight on Twitter, thought I might come to the rescue (or at least attempt to).

   Here are my two guesses...

   Firstly, are you setting has_archive in your register_post_type arguments to true?

   Secondly, have you tried calling flush_rewrite_rules() after your register_post_type line?

   If neither of those suggestions are applicable, I think we'll need to see what your register_post_type args look like to provide more assistance.

3. Christine
   Moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   This is what I have in my function file right now.

   http://pastebin.com/t1bf94ZA

   I'll look and see if I can figure out this flush_rewrite_rule()

4. Tyler Sticka
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Yeah, your arguments look fine. I would just insert:

   flush_rewrite_rules();

   After line 62, right after you register your taxonomy. Then, reload your page (so functions.php executes) and see if it works.

5. Christine
   Moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   There must be something else going on somewhere cause it's still not working...

   Arrrgggg.....

   I've got someone else looking into it though.

6. Tyler Sticka
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Sorry to hear that! Maybe one little argument is off.

   One other thing to keep in mind. It's generally considered poor practice to name custom post types without a theme- or plugin-specific prefix. For example, instead of testimonial you'd use bluelime_testimonial and then use the rewrite argument to specify a slug of testimonial.

   If you happened to try any plugins or something else that may have used a similar post type, you can run into some nasty conflicts.

   Now, I doubt that's what's happening here, but it's worth mentioning.

   Best of luck!

7. Christine
   Moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I hear you Tyler, I usually have my prefix, but the code that you are seeing now has been changed about 5 times since we've started this thread. I'm trying some code that a twitter follower provided. I'll go and fix it once I have this going.

8. Christine
   Moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   With the help from Tyler and other twitter friends. I managed to get this working. The Custom Post Type code was updated in the functions.php and I create a taxonomy-genre.php template.

   Here is the code if anyone wants it.

   Code for the CPT - http://pastebin.com/GrcRpCTR

   Code used in my taxonmy-genre.php http://pastebin.com/tW7KZUiN

   Yes, I hardcoded the h1, tsk, tsk...
   Whatever...

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