Adding Taxonomy Name between Custom Post Type and post

Hi Guys

This is a continuation of a discussion started here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-category-of-taxonomy-between-custom-post-type-and-post and continued here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-taxonomy-name-to-custom-post-type-and-retain-pagination

The full post of what I’m trying to do is here https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-template-hierarchy-link-to-archive-page-help-needed but in a nutshell:

I want to set a permalink structure up so:

http://localhost/wordpress/recipes/ -> Links to archive-recipe.php, which shows latest recipes of all types (custom post type recipes, taxonomy recipetypes). This is working

http://localhost/wordpress/recipes/meals/ -> Links to archive-recipe.php and passes the term “meals” so only recipes of the taxonomy term “meals” are shown but I can use the same page, archive-recipe.php

http://localhost/wordpress/recipes/meals/mac-and-cheese -> Links to single-recipe.php, which shows a single recipe post.

I’m currently using (just the relevant bits):

// Set other options for Recipes Custom Post Type
$args = array(
	'supports'            => array( 'title', 'excerpt', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'revisions'),
	'rewrite'            => array( 'slug' => 'recipes'),
	'taxonomies'          => array( 'recipetypes' ),
	'hierarchical'        => false,
	'public'              => true,
	'can_export'          => true,
	'has_archive'         => true,
	'exclude_from_search' => false,
	'publicly_queryable'  => true,
	'capability_type'     => 'post'
);

// Register the Recipes Custom Post Type
register_post_type( 'recipe', $args );

	register_taxonomy('recipetypes', 'recipe', array(
		'hierarchical' => false,
		'rewrite'      => array( 'slug' => 'recipes' )
		)
	));

This works for http://localhost/wordpress/recipes/ (archive-recipe.php) and shows individual recipes (i.e. http://localhost/wordpress/recipes/mac-and-cheese/) but the URL structure is not quite there (missing the term). If I use lopinsjk’s solution I can get this: http://localhost/wordpress/recipes/meals/mac-and-cheese and this: http://localhost/wordpress/recipes/meals/ (but this links to index.php not archive-recipe.php)

But this now gives me a 404: http://localhost/wordpress/recipes/

Here’s what I tried using lopinsjk’s code (just the relevant bits):

$args = array(
		'rewrite'            => array( 'slug' => 'recipes/%recipetypes%','with_front' => false),
		'taxonomies'          => array( 'recipetypes' ),
		'hierarchical'        => false,
		'public'              => true,
		'has_archive'         => true,
		'exclude_from_search' => false,
		'publicly_queryable'  => true,
		'capability_type'     => 'post'
	);

	// Register the Recipes Custom Post Type
	register_post_type( 'recipe', $args );

register_taxonomy('recipetypes', 'recipe', array(
		'hierarchical' => false,
		'query_var'		=> 'recipetypes',
		'rewrite'      => array( 'slug' => 'recipes' )
);

add_filter('post_link', 'recipetypes_permalink', 1, 3);
add_filter('post_type_link', 'recipetypes_permalink', 1, 3);

function recipetypes_permalink($permalink, $post_id, $leavename) {
    if (strpos($permalink, '%recipetypes%') === FALSE) return $permalink;
        // Get post
        $post = get_post($post_id);
        if (!$post) return $permalink;

        // Get taxonomy terms
        $terms = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, 'recipetypes');
        if (!is_wp_error($terms) && !empty($terms) && is_object($terms[0]))
        	$taxonomy_slug = $terms[0]->slug;
        else $taxonomy_slug = 'no-brand';

    return str_replace('%recipetypes%', $taxonomy_slug, $permalink);
}

What do I need to do to get http://localhost/wordpress/recipes/meals/ and http://localhost/wordpress/recipes/ to link to archive-recipe.php and http://localhost/wordpress/recipes/meals/mac-and-cheese/ to link to single-recipe.php?

Many thanks in advance 🙂