Title: Custom permalink structure gives 40
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Custom permalink structure gives 40

 *  [Mark Jansen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mark-jansen/)
 * (@mark-jansen)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-structure-gives-40/)
 * Hello all,
 * For a Custom Post Type called `matches` I created a custom permalink structure.
   The structure shows up just the way I want it, however, I get a 404 everytime
   I visit the post.
 * I have tried removing the .htaccess, re-saving the permalinks, flushing the rewrites
   etc. None of it did any good.
 * The code I use is as follows:
 *     ```
       add_action( 'init', array( $this, 'match_permalink_structure' ) );
       add_filter( 'post_type_link', array( $this, 'better_match_permalinks' ), 10, 3 );
   
       function match_permalink_structure() {
       	global $wp_rewrite;
   
       	$structure = trailingslashit( __( 'match', 'apollo' ) );
       	$structure .= trailingslashit( '%year%/%month%/%day%' );
       	$structure .= trailingslashit( '%matches%' );
   
       	$wp_rewrite->add_rewrite_tag( "%matches%", '([^/]+)', "matches=" );
       	$wp_rewrite->add_permastruct( 'matches', $structure, true );
       }
   
       function better_match_permalinks( $permalink, $post, $leavename ) {
       	$rewritecode = array(
               '%year%',
               '%month%',
               '%day%',
               $leavename ? '' : '%matches%',
           );
   
       	$timestamp = get_field( 'match_datetime', $post->ID );
   
       	if( ! empty( $timestamp ) ) {
       		$year = date( 'Y', $timestamp );
       		$month = date( 'm', $timestamp );
       		$day = date( 'd', $timestamp );
       	} else {
       		$year = date( 'Y', strtotime( $post->post_date ) );
       		$month = date( 'm', strtotime( $post->post_date ) );
       		$day = date( 'd', strtotime( $post->post_date ) );
       	}
   
       	$rewrite_replace = array(
       		$year,
       		$month,
       		$day,
       		$post->post_name,
       	);
   
       	$permalink = str_replace( $rewritecode, $rewrite_replace, $permalink );
   
       	return $permalink;
       }
       ```
   
 * Does anyone have any idea what I could possibly be doing wrong, or what I need
   to do to fix this issue?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-structure-gives-40/#post-4790546)
 * I don’t know enough about rewrites to be able to spot any problems in code. In
   case no one else spots a problem either, the next step is to output the actual
   query string from the ‘posts_request’ filter. There should be some conflicting
   clauses which are causing no posts to be returned. What the conflicts are will
   be a clue to what part of your permastruct is not working right.

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