Title: Multiple custom "pretty permalinks"
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multiple custom "pretty permalinks"

 *  Resolved [minim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minim/)
 * (@minim)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-custom-pretty-permalinks/)
 * The situation I have is this: Currently the main part of my site is hand-coded
   in PHP files, with server-side redirects for specific sections. The blog is in
   WordPress inside a folder named “journal”. I am currently reworking my theme 
   to move the entire site into WordPress. I want to keep the current folder structure(
   created by the actual folder for the blog and the virtual folders created by 
   the redirects) as much as possible so I don’t break the various promotional links
   distributed all over the web.
 * Everything was working perfectly until the other day when I upgraded to 3.2.1
   when the rewrite for my custom post type stopped working and now just returns“
   Index: Sorry, no posts matched your criteria”.
 * After much experimenting, it looks like the issue is most likely not in my custom
   post type code, but in the custom permalink structure I have in place. Currently
   my permalinks are set to:
 * /journal/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
 * If I reset the permalinks to use a non-custom version, I can see my custom “works”
   posts; as soon as I set it back to the custom URL, I can’t. If I turn off my 
   custom rewrite it works, but shows up as /journal/music/work-name, when I need
   it to be /music/work-name.
 * So my question, I guess, is, is there anyway to change the permalink just of 
   posts as a rewrite, rather than changing the actual permalink structure? Or am
   I barking up the wrong tree entirely? I’ve searched all over the web to try to
   find an answer to this – I’ve tested all sorts of permutations of permalink settings,
   rewrite settings, even deleted my .htaccess and nothing seems to be resetting
   things back to the way they were before when everything worked fine. The code
   itself and all the settings are identical now to what they were when they worked,
   but no joy. Could this be a known problem with 3.2.1? I’m not sure which version
   I had before, but I created the test site about 4 months ago so it would have
   been whatever was around then, I guess.
 * Any suggestions most gratefully received!

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 *  [rockaclimba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockaclimba/)
 * (@rockaclimba)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-custom-pretty-permalinks/#post-2342948)
 * Same issue with me
 * server suport says- everything is ok from their end…but i am unable to use custom
   permalinks
 *  Thread Starter [minim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minim/)
 * (@minim)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-custom-pretty-permalinks/#post-2343026)
 * OK. I think I have it fixed! Thanks to this thread and some niggling about:
    
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-permalinks-404](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-permalinks-404)
 * The problem appears to have been that the two custom taxonomies I had defined
   were both using the same stub for rewriting the permalink as the custom post 
   type, so I was trying to make:
 * /music/work-name AND
    /music/genre-taxonomy-name AND /music/instrument-taxonomy-
   name
 * and that just seemed too much for poor old WP to handle. I have now changed this
   so that instead I have:
 * /music/work-name
    /genre/genre-taxonomy-name /instrument/instrument-taxonomy-
   name
 * Throw in a couple of resaves on the Permalinks Settings page and everything seems
   to be working perfectly again. Not sure why it suddenly stopped working, though,
   because the Works permalinks were working fine when the taxonomy ones weren’t,
   but hey! it’s working now!
 * Hope this helps you too, rockaclimba, and anyone else out there struggling with
   this one!

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-custom-pretty-permalinks/#post-2343026)
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