Title: Single Post 404s Last modified: August 24, 2016 --- # Single Post 404s * [jasewarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasewarner/) * (@jasewarner) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/) * Hey, * I’m hoping somebody can shed some light on an issue that I’m experiencing with the plugin. * I’m currently developing a website and have made use of the custom post types and taxonomies. The problem is that while the permalinks and archive/taxonomy pages work fine, I’m getting 404s on all singe post pages. * Here’s the code I’m using in my functions.php file to create the custom post types: * ``` // custom post types add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type' ); function create_post_type() { // create work post type register_post_type( 'work', array( 'labels' => array( 'name' => __( 'Work' ), 'singular_name' => __( 'Work' ), 'add_new' => __('Add New Work') ), 'public' => true, 'menu_position' => 5, 'has_archive' => true ) ); // create blog post type register_post_type( 'blog', array( 'labels' => array( 'name' => __( 'Blog' ), 'singular_name' => __( 'Post' ), 'add_new' => __('Add New Blog Post') ), 'public' => true, 'menu_position' => 5, 'has_archive' => true ) ); // flush_rewrite_rules(); // dev purposes only } ``` * And here’s what I’m using to create the taxonomies in the same file: * ``` // custom categories add_action( 'init', 'create_category' ); function create_category() { register_taxonomy( 'work-category', 'work', array( 'label' => __( 'Work Categories' ), 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'work' ), 'hierarchical' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_admin_column' => true ) ); register_taxonomy( 'blog-category', 'blog', array( 'label' => __( 'Blog Categories' ), 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'blog' ), 'hierarchical' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_admin_column' => true ) ); } ``` * Now, to me, all of the above looks okay. So, thus far, I’m stumped as to what the problem is. * Here’s how I have set up my permalinks: * • ‘work’ is: /%work-category%/%postname%/ (has_archive: true / with_front: true) * • ‘blog’ is: /%blog-category%/%postname%/ (has_archive: true / with_front: true) * “Use custom permalink of custom taxonomy archive” is unchecked. * Here’s an example how the permalinks are currently working (or not working, as the case may be): * [http://176.32.230.6/timgrewcock.com/work/](http://176.32.230.6/timgrewcock.com/work/)( works fine) [http://176.32.230.6/timgrewcock.com/work/acting/](http://176.32.230.6/timgrewcock.com/work/acting/)( works fine) [http://176.32.230.6/timgrewcock.com/work/acting/something-2/](http://176.32.230.6/timgrewcock.com/work/acting/something-2/)( doesn’t work) * Anybody have any ideas? * Thanks * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-permalinks/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-permalinks/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 22 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/page/2/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [jasewarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasewarner/) * (@jasewarner) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973283) * I’m still working on this (albeit at an intermittent pace) and I’ve just discovered that changing the common permalink settings to default (e.g. [http://www.site.com/?p=123](http://www.site.com/?p=123)) gets everything working. * So, it seems to be a problem with the postname being called. I’ve checked and I don’t have any categories or pages named the same as the two post types I created. * Anybody have any ideas at all? * Plugin Author [Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toro_unit/) * (@toro_unit) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973287) * Should not use same slug of post type and taxonomy. * If use same slug. * ``` /work/foo-title/ /work/foo-term/ ``` * can not determine whether foo-title or foo-term is post-name or term-slug. * So, should set slug work-category to such as work/category. * Thread Starter [jasewarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasewarner/) * (@jasewarner) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973289) * Thanks for your response! * I think I understand what you are saying… the same word cannot be used in both the post type and taxonomy, right? * If so, I tried creating a new taxonomy that doesn’t use the word “work” but I still get a 404 on single posts. Here’s my new taxonomy in functions.php: * ``` register_taxonomy( 'category-one', 'work', // apply to 'work' post type array( 'label' => __( 'Work Categories (1)' ), 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'work' ), 'hierarchical' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_admin_column' => true ) ); ``` * And my custom permalink now looks like: /work/%category-one%/%postname%/ * Do you know why it still wouldn’t be working? * Thanks for your help. * Plugin Author [Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toro_unit/) * (@toro_unit) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973290) * Same word cannot be used in **slug**. So, Should change **$argument[“rewrite”][“ slug”]**. * ``` register_taxonomy( 'work-category', 'work', array( 'label' => __( 'Work Categories' ), 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'work/category' ), 'hierarchical' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_admin_column' => true ) ); ``` * Thread Starter [jasewarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasewarner/) * (@jasewarner) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973291) * Thanks for the quick reply. * My apologies if I’m missing something obvious, but by changing my slug to what you have suggested, I end up with following structure: * /work/ <–post type /work/category/acting/ <–category /work/acting/something/ <–single post 404 * This isn’t working for me at all, so I’m guessing I have misunderstood you? * Plugin Author [Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toro_unit/) * (@toro_unit) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973292) * Please tell me default permalink setting. * Thread Starter [jasewarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasewarner/) * (@jasewarner) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973293) * Common Settings is set to Post Name. * But I was under the impression that the default settings are disregarded as soon as custom settings are put in place? * Plugin Author [Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toro_unit/) * (@toro_unit) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973297) * OK. * Please Regenerate rewrite rules. Click Save in wp-admin/options-permalink.php. * After Regenerate rewrite rules, if /work/category/acting/ 404, register_taxonomy before _register_post_type. * Thread Starter [jasewarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasewarner/) * (@jasewarner) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973298) * Okay, I’ve saved wp-admin/options-permalink.php, so the rewrite rules have been flushed. But I’m sorry, I don’t quite understand what you meant by: * > After Regenerate rewrite rules, > if /work/category/acting/ 404, register_taxonomy > before _register_post_type. * Can you elaborate please? Thanks again for your patience and help. * Plugin Author [Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toro_unit/) * (@toro_unit) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973305) * For now, please install [debug bar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-bar/). And please visit the category page or single page. * And, please tell me the value of the “Matched Rewrite Rule”, “Matched Rewrite Query”. * Thread Starter [jasewarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasewarner/) * (@jasewarner) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973316) * Sure, thanks. * The value of “Matches Rewrite Rule” on a single post page is: * `work/[^/]+/([^/]+)/?$` * The “Matches Rewrite Query” value is: * `attachment=something` * Plugin Author [Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toro_unit/) * (@toro_unit) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973318) * Maybe you do not have commented out the flush_rewrite_rules()? Should not use flush_rewrite_rules() in your code. * flush_rewrite_rules is used only when Regenerate rules. flush_rewrite_rules should be used only when RewriteRule is regenerated. * When I delete a comment, the problem was reproduced. * Thread Starter [jasewarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasewarner/) * (@jasewarner) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973319) * Ah yes! I forgot to comment out the flush rewrite lines. * I just did so, resaved options-permalink.php and went back into my Permalink Settings and resaved and I’m no longer getting 404s on my single posts! * Thanks so much for your patience. * The only snag now is that my permalinks are set up as follows: * /work/ /work/category/faffing/ <– here is the problem: I don’t want “category” in there /work/faffing/dirt-devil/ * Is there any way to remove “category” from the taxonomy page urls? * Thanks so much again – at least the single posts are working now. * Plugin Author [Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toro_unit/) * (@toro_unit) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973320) * register_post_type and register_taxonomy add rewrite rule at last. * And, the priority of the rule, is determined by the order of registration. * If register_post_type has been executed before the register_taxonomy, post type rule has priority. So, post that post_name is faffing and parent post_name is category will be searched. * Means that you can avoid this problem by running the register_taxonomy ahead register_post_type ! * Thread Starter [jasewarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasewarner/) * (@jasewarner) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/#post-5973322) * Okay, thanks for your response. * The thing is I am running register_taxonomy ahead of register_post_type. Here’s the entire block of code from my functions.php file: * ``` // custom categories add_action( 'init', 'create_category' ); function create_category() { register_taxonomy( 'work-category', 'work', array( 'label' => __( 'Work Categories' ), 'hierarchical' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_admin_column' => true, 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'work/category' ) ) ); register_taxonomy( 'blog-category', 'blog', array( 'label' => __( 'Blog Categories' ), 'hierarchical' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_admin_column' => true, 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'blog/category' ), ) ); //flush_rewrite_rules(); // dev purposes only } // custom post types add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type' ); function create_post_type() { // create work post type register_post_type( 'work', array( 'labels' => array( 'name' => __( 'Work' ), 'singular_name' => __( 'Work' ), 'add_new' => __('Add New Work') ), 'public' => true, 'has_archive' => true, 'menu_position' => 5 ) ); // create blog post type register_post_type( 'blog', array( 'labels' => array( 'name' => __( 'Blog' ), 'singular_name' => __( 'Post' ), 'add_new' => __('Add New Blog Post') ), 'public' => true, 'has_archive' => true, 'menu_position' => 5 ) ); //flush_rewrite_rules(); // dev purposes only } ``` Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 22 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Single Post 404s’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/custom-post-type-permalinks/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev= 3495884) * [Custom Post Type Permalinks](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-permalinks/) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-post-type-permalinks/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-post-type-permalinks/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-post-type-permalinks/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-post-type-permalinks/reviews/) ## Tags * [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post/) * 22 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [jasewarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasewarner/) * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-404s/page/2/#post-5973387) * Status: not resolved