Title: Post Type name issue
Last modified: July 17, 2020

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# Post Type name issue

 *  Resolved [vtocean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtocean/)
 * (@vtocean)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-type-name-issue/)
 * Hi, i’m trying to create a post type named ‘action’, but i can’t. Is that a special
   name and i can’t use it as a post type name?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-type-name-issue/#post-13136006)
 * According to [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_post_type/#reserved-post-types](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_post_type/#reserved-post-types)
   yes, it’s a reserved name.
 * I am curious if you could get around it with anything but “action” for the slug,
   and then for your urls/rewrite slug have it be “action” but I haven’t tried that
   before, so I can’t say how detrimental that may be to the function of the site.

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 * [action](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/action/)
 * [name](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/name/)
 * [post-type](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post-type/)

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 * Last reply from: [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-type-name-issue/#post-13136006)
 * Status: resolved