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1. loic.etibe
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hello :-)

   I'm developping some plugin with custom post types and I'm now running into a weird problem.

   I have a custom type called, let's say, "My Custom Post". I want a list of those to be reachable at a convenient URL, so I set up my rewrite slug like this :
   

   'rewrite' => array(
                 'slug' => 'my-custom-posts',
               )

   Good. Now I want to use a custom Menu to handle all of this, so I start building it. Now I want an item called "My Custom Posts", which slug will be "my-custom-posts" and pointing to /my-custom-posts/ (my plugin handles this and provides a listing page if pagename is found).

   Now the problem : if I click on my Menu's item, I'm redirected to my default Permalink rewrite rule, pointing to the nav_menu_item's ID, not having even the chance to do anything with it.

   I tried a few tricks, but nothing seems to work . Except changing my Custom Post slug. The best solution would be to tell WordPress to ignore nav_menu_item post type, as it will always point to a "Post not found page", but I couldn't manage to do that.

2. MrZed
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hello,

   I have the same problem, and it's really annoying ...

   I tried to find the function which redirect, to deactivate it or modify it, but I did not find it.
   I hope there is another solution, without affecting the WordPress sources.

3. loic.etibe
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hello back.

   I couldn't find any way to exclude the nav_menu_item's from the requests, so I tried the other way around : altering the post_name at insert time.

   So, here is a function to add to a 'wp_insert_post' action hook :

   add_action('wp_insert_post', 'nav_menu_items', 8);

   [Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

   Important Notice : the wp_insert_post hook is actually called at the end of the insert/update function and I couldn't find a way to limit it to the inserts only. The overhead doesn't seem too high so I think it's OK. And it will solve the problem for all pre-existing menus.

   Enjoy :-)

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