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Custom post types, custom taxonomies, and ugly permalinks (1 post)

  1. iamarogue
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    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hey guys, if anyone could help me out, I'd appreciate it.

    Here's my set-up: WordPress 3.0.1, sadly PHP 4.4, a server that doesn't support pretty permalinks.

    I'm using Custom Post Type UI to literally build a taxonomy of bird species as a section of my blog. I have a post type for "species" (which was the best title I could come up with, it's not perfectly appropriate), which is hierarchical, and I have several levels of nesting going on. An example:

    Aves
       Trogoniformes
           Trogonidae
                Trogon
                    Trogon collaris (Vieillot, 1817)

    I want to get the pages to link to each other automatically, with a "get child pages" or "get parent" call. I'm not good at code, so I've been trying to use plugins to do this (currently SB Child List). It seems to get the parent fine but not any child pages. Does anyone know why this might be? I have tried other plugins, same result.

    I'm also currently using a hierarchical custom taxonomy that is probably quite redundant. I called it, uncreatively, "taxonomy" (does anyone know if this might be why I'm getting problems?), and the idea would be that the "Trogon collaris" would be in the Trogon, Trogonidae, Trogoniformes, and Aves taxonomies, so I could later call all species under "Trogoniformes."

    Problem is, I can't seem to access the custom taxonomy archive page at all, and keep getting a 404 error. As far as I know, the link should be at /?taxonomy=trogoniformes, but that gives me a 404. My category pages are located at /?cat=2, since I can't change the permalinks.

    If anyone can help me with any of the above, that would be super. Thanks!

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