Title: Custom posts, and permalinks, etcetera.
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Custom posts, and permalinks, etcetera.

 *  [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-and-permalinks-etcetera/)
 * My apologies for posting something so vague, but my brain seems to have stopped
   functioning and I’ll appreciate any advice I can get.
 * I’ve usually published my sites using a static front page and ‘notes’ as a posts
   page, with a permalink structure of /notes/%postname%/ relative to the root.
 * So I get post urls of sitename/notes/post-name.
 * All fine. I understand this.
 * Now, I think I need to use custom posts to create a schedule – the entries for
   which I don’t want mixed in with the other posts.
 * If I’ve understood things, with my existing set-up I think permalinks for custom
   posts would have to include /notes/ and hence be /notes/[something]/%postname%/.
 * This I don’t want, and need something on the same level as /notes/ rather than
   below it.
 * So, to avoid this I think I need to move the posts up a level, changing the permalink
   structure for posts to /%postname%/ so that the permalinks for custom posts can
   then be be [something]/%postname%/.
 * (If I’m wrong on this, and there’s a way to get the permalinks for custom posts
   on the same level as the other posts I’ll welcome it.)
 * But, I’m stuck on how to revise my posts page… I still want the url /sitename/
   notes/ to show posts.
 * So, having searched and trial-and-error diddled-around with this, I added a category
   of ‘notes’ into which I’ve added all posts, then experimented with various things
   including removing the category slug… but can’t get it right.
 * I’m sure I’ve done something like this previously, using query_posts to display
   posts from a category to get things behaving ok. But I can’t remember how, and
   have never been sure that what I did was sensible anyway.

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 *  [girlieworks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/girlieworks/)
 * (@girlieworks)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-and-permalinks-etcetera/#post-7210995)
 * > If I’ve understood things, with my existing set-up I think permalinks for custom
   > posts would have to include /notes/ and hence be /notes/[something]/%postname%/.
 * [@gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/), when you [register a custom post type](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type),
   you can set the `with_front` argument for the `rewrite` parameter to `false`,
   and that should keep the `/notes` bit out of those custom post type permalinks:
 *     ```
       'rewrite' => array( 'with_front' => false ),
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-and-permalinks-etcetera/#post-7211027)
 * Ah! Excellent.
    Thanks – you’ve helped preserve some of my remaining sanity.
 *  [girlieworks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/girlieworks/)
 * (@girlieworks)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-and-permalinks-etcetera/#post-7211097)
 * You’re welcome!
 *  Thread Starter [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-and-permalinks-etcetera/#post-7211103)
 * Thanks.
 * I wish this forum allowed me to try to contact you to ask about hiring you to
   sort some stuff for me, but having read ‘requesting paid help is discouraged’
   I’ll respect that. Pity.

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 * Last reply from: [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-and-permalinks-etcetera/#post-7211103)
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