Get custom post_type’s archive URL

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1. Hi @Silent:

   Turns out there is a function in WordPress 3.1 that does exactly what you want and it is named get_post_type_archive_link(); here’s how you’d call it (assuming a custom post type named 'product'):

   <a href="<?php echo get_post_type_archive_link('product'); ?>">Products</a>
   

   Below is my prior answer before I discovered that WordPress did indeed have a function built-in for this use case.

   Prior Answer:

   Unless I overlooked something in the core source code for WordPress 3.1 I think you are looking for a function like get_archive_link() which you might call like this (assuming a custom post type named 'product'):

   <a href="<?php echo get_archive_link('product'); ?>">Products</a>
   

   And here’s the source code which you can place into your theme’s function.php file or in a .php file for a plugin you might be writing:

   if (!function_exists('get_archive_link')) {
     function get_archive_link( $post_type ) {
       global $wp_post_types;
       $archive_link = false;
       if (isset($wp_post_types[$post_type])) {
         $wp_post_type = $wp_post_types[$post_type];
         if ($wp_post_type->publicly_queryable)
           if ($wp_post_type->has_archive && $wp_post_type->has_archive!==true)
             $slug = $wp_post_type->has_archive;
           else if (isset($wp_post_type->rewrite['slug']))
             $slug = $wp_post_type->rewrite['slug'];
           else
             $slug = $post_type;
         $archive_link = get_option( 'siteurl' ) . "/{$slug}/";
       }
       return apply_filters( 'archive_link', $archive_link, $post_type );
     }
   }
   

   I was actually working on this exact logic over the weekend although I’m not yet 100% sure the order of the logic is generically correct across all use-cases that WordPress might see although it will probably work for any specific site.

   This is also a great thing to suggest be added to WordPress via trac which I think I will do later this evening.

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2. when you register post type you can pass a string as slug with “has_archive” parameter and make sure you also set rewrite to either true or an array but not false
   and then your CPT archive URL would be http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/has_archive_slug for example

   if you set in your register_post_type for example:

   $args = array(
       'labels' => $labels,
       'public' => true,
       'publicly_queryable' => true,
       'show_ui' => true, 
       'show_in_menu' => true, 
       'query_var' => true,
       'rewrite' => 'product',
       'capability_type' => 'post',
       'has_archive' => 'products', 
       'hierarchical' => false,
       'menu_position' => null,
       'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments')
     ); 
    register_post_type('product',$args);
   

   then your single url is:
   http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/product/postName
   and your archive url is:
   http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/products/

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