Harryson

Is it wrong to have a page called News at all? Or should I include my news in the menu with 'show_in_menu' => true in the register_post_type() array?

Ok stuck again.

So I first off created single-news_view.php.

Then registered the post type:

add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type' );
function create_post_type() {
	register_post_type( 'news_view',
		array(
			'labels' => array(
				'name' => __( 'News' ),
				'singular_name' => __( 'News' )
			),
			'public' => true,
			'has_archive' => true,
			'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'news')
		)
	);
}

I was hoping that, that’s all it takes and it will automatically use that single-news_view.php, but it doesn’t. What am I missing?

Yes, Ive got /news/%post_id%/%postname%/ and separate Home and News page. The News page, uses custom page template [theme_dir]/news.php etc. However, the permalink will force the index.php file as the template.. It ignores the News page template, also it doesn’t mark the News in the links <ul> as active..even though its news/ and news/ID/TITLE.

From my point of view, there should be two options now. Either to have a custom single post template. Or I cannot use permalinks and generate the links myself.. so it would not ignore my news/ and then in the news.php use $_GET information to display the post.

Possible, not familiar with the wordpress terms yet. Simply put, I wish to have separate Blog page (meaning, static frontpage) called News, that I have cracked. Now I would like to have the “read more” or “detailed view” News -> Article.