Can custom post type permalinks use the same structure as normal posts?

  • amp343

    (@amp343)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    I have a pretty simple question — I’m wondering if custom post types (say I have one called ‘news’) can use the same default permalink structure as the rest of the site.

    Here’s an example:

    My default permalink structure for the site is: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

    Would it then be possible to create an entry in the post type ‘news’ that followed this same permalink structure? Such that it became: /2012/03/news-entry-title ?

    I’ve messed around with a few solutions, and gleaning what I can from other questions on the forum. My initial feeling is that this can’t really be accomplished, at least not without a good bit of difficulty. For example, I played around with some code to create multiple custom permalink strings for my ‘news’ post type, and they all worked just fine — except when I changed the structure to mirror the default settings, as mentioned above. Then they 404’d.

    At this point I’m not even worried about the code that would be needed to accomplish it. Just, is it even possible?

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  • Thread Starter amp343

    (@amp343)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Trying to think a little more about why the default permalink structure (again, say /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ for this case) would 404 when used with a custom post type.

    Upon more digging, it looks like a particular permalink structure only works for the first post type that it is registered to, custom or not. For example, I can also not use the same permalink structure for two custom post types (it only works for the first).

    I guess this makes sense if WP uses the permalink structure to determine information about the page content (which post type, etc). But why should that matter if every entry has a unique slug, no matter which post type it is?

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