Harryson

What difference does it have? 20x items per group 6x groups.

Based on the answer I got from: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/35593/how-to-add-custom-post-type-archive-page-links-to-nav-menu

I forked that function to be more dynamic:

add_filter('wp_list_pages', 'new_nav_menu_items');
add_filter('wp_nav_menu_items', 'new_nav_menu_items');
function new_nav_menu_items($items) {
	global $wp_query;
	$class = 'menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page';
	foreach ($GLOBALS['posttypelinks'] as $link) {
		$items .= '<li class="' . $classes . ' ' . (isset($wp_query->query_vars['post_type']) && $wp_query->query_vars['post_type'] == $link['post_type'] ? 'current_page_item' : '') . '"><a href="' . site_url() . '/' . $link['slug'] . '">' . $link['title'] . '</a></li>';
	}
	return $items;
}

So, I could add my post-types to menu like this (inside create_post_type()):

$GLOBALS['posttypelinks'][] = array(
	'title' => $title,
	'post_type' => $post_type,
	'slug' => $slug
);

These variables are the same, that are being used inside register_post_type()‘s array. Probably could be better solution and maybe in the form of a plugin..however, it does the trick perfectly.

Up, still cant figure this out.

Ok ok, I see. I have one last question.

How do I make it so, if I have custom post type like news. How do I view the category now? So the normal url is example.com/news/ and the categories should be example.com/news/category/films. I thought it should be as easy as THEME_DIR/category-POSTTYPENAME.php. But it doesn’t work..

I’m also facing the same problem with pagination example.com/page/PAGENR etc.. Can’t I simply use .htaccess somehow?

Ahaa. I see. That was my next question, how will I get the category links correct. So meaning, that if I use custom post-type such with the slug “news”, and then make custom taxonomy for that “news system”, then I can use the categories and tags links like “example.com/news/categories/films” easier, then with the standard post taxonomies?!

Checking out http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories I cannot figure out how to make it return raw array and not formatted lists or anchors with <br /> at the end.

Thank you for replying, however that code doesn’t seem to work 🙁

I tried debugging it with print_r():
$post_type_ids = Array ( [0] => 176 )
$post_type_cats = Array ( )

I’m not familiar with wordpress code at all, so I have no idea where to go from here.

So as far as I understand, everything should be working now.

From a blank wordpress:

1. Install and very basic theme setup
2. Create the single and archive templates
3. Register the custom post type
4. Put some sample data to your new post type
..done, correct?

Though, it does generate a list in archives-view and displays the contents in single-view. But it does that using index.php and not their representative templates.

Done all that, but its not working. Also, the link doesn’t appear in the menu (and also, technically should be active, but next to the custom page not appearing, that’s a very small priority.)

To be honest, I’m completely stuck. Had my hopes up, as I need to create sort of “catalog features” for some other pages and custom post types seems perfect for the job.

So how to debug this? Is there some basic step I’m missing out, since I’m not familiar with wordpress at all and basically am rushing to meat the deadline of the project. Maybe some functions.php setup function/variable? ..or maybe some setting in the admin panel -to allow custom posts type templates?

0:30 in Estonia, so I’ll report back in ~10 hours. Thanks for taking time to help me, appreciated. Good night 🙂