McSalty

That makes sense. Thanks a lot for the response!

anthonyCCL,

My code had nothing to do with the plugin — it was a functions.php patch to make custom taxonomies work in normal post permalinks. (Whereas the plugin sets permalinks for custom post types).

In the latest version of the plugin, custom taxonomies work out of the box with ‘%taxonomy_name’. Just make sure you’re using the official taxonomy name, not the display name or custom slug. Hope that helps.

What exactly is “$_POST[‘_title’]”? Is “_title” a custom field you’re filling in? If so, why not just use wordpress’s title instead of the custom field?

Try commenting out your function and replacing it with “print_r($_POST);” or “var_dump($_POST);”. When you click “publish” in wordpress, it will take you to a page where it write out the entire contents of the $_POST array, so you can see what values you have available to work with.

Lastly, try changing “$title_to_ignore” to “$my_post_title”? I haven’t tested it, but it looks like in your example if post type is NOT my_event, you’re attempting to return a blank string. Maybe this would prevent wordpress from allowing you to save at all?

Ah, that was fast. Here’s the code I’m using. It’s working perfectly

add_filter('name_save_pre', 'save_name');
function save_name($my_post_name) {
        if ($_POST['post_type'] == 'parties') :
          $party_date = $_POST['date'];
          $party_name = $_POST['party_name'];
          $my_post_name = $party_name . "-" . $party_date;
        endif;
        return $my_post_name;
}

I check to see if the post type is ‘parties’, and if so I change the URL based on two custom fields called ‘date’ and ‘party_name’.

Again, I just hacked this together, so someone let me know if there are any potential problems with the way I’m achieving this.

Ah ok. I found a hack here:
http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/add-custom-taxonomy-tags-to-your-wordpress-permalinks

Here’s the code I’m using:

// custom taxonomy permalinks
add_filter('post_link', 'location_permalink', 10, 3);
add_filter('post_type_link', 'location_permalink', 10, 3);

function location_permalink($permalink, $post_id, $leavename) {
        if (strpos($permalink, '%location%') === FALSE) return $permalink;

        // Get post
        $post = get_post($post_id);
        if (!$post) return $permalink;

        // Get taxonomy terms
        $terms = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, 'location');
        if (!is_wp_error($terms) && !empty($terms) && is_object($terms[0])) $taxonomy_slug = $terms[0]->slug;
        else $taxonomy_slug = 'other';

        return str_replace('%location%', $taxonomy_slug, $permalink);
}

It’s a manual str_replace for my single taxonomy, “location”, but in this case it’s all I needed to complete my otherwise functional permalink structure.

It may be more hassle than it’s worth to add the functionality to Custom Post Permalinks, but maybe this post will help someone else who needs the same thing. Thanks again for the plugin!

Hi,

“1.1 – Added support for all taxonomies”

I can’t find an example on how to use this. If the post_type is “restaurant” and the taxonomy “location”…

/restaurants/%location%/%restaurant% ?
/restaurants/%taxonomy%/%restaurant% ?
/restaurants/%category%/%restaurant% ?

Thanks for the plugin — this makes custom post types a hell of a lot more useful!