As the title states, I’d like to remove parent slugs from URLs for a particular post type: services.
Something that would change this:
http://demo.com/parent-service/child-service-1
http://demo.com/grand-parent-service/parent-service/child-service-2
http://demo.com/great-grand-parent-service/grand-parent-service/parent-service/child-service-3
etc
To something like this:
http://demo.com/child-service-1
http://demo.com/child-service-2
http://demo.com/child-service-3
etc
I’d rather not use an additional plugins to accomplish this. I’m currently delivering the CPT via a plugin, which also registers a custom taxonomy.
In a quick test, I was surprised to find that this works out of the box. That is, the canonical URI for a child post still has the parent in the path, but the child post works just as well without it (doesn’t 404, doesn’t redirect). As a result, it should just be a matter of filtering
post_type_link
to get this to work as you’re asking! The following code should do just that: