I’ve been playing around with a lot of custom post types lately and I am pretty anal about my URL structure / routing.
An issue I ran in to a with a site that I just developed was this:
- I had many custom post types, for example:
videos
- The URL structure to ‘view’ the video list (ie: archive of sorts) was
/media/videos/
- This ‘view’ was basically a custom
WP_Query
displaying things properly from a custom .php template. - When an individual ‘video’ link is clicked you are taken to the post type URL structure, ie:
www.site.com/videos/{slug}
- This causes all loss of URL structure/parental relationship to structure.
I would love to solve this problem:
- When you navigate to
/media/videos/
you get the custom loaded template file - When you click a video
permalink()
, you will be linked to/media/videos/{slug}
- Ideally this would perserve hierarchy of URL structure (so if something like Breadcrumb NavXT it would still have a relationship).
I made a teacher/student/etc module one time where I did custom routing via add_rewrite_rule
to handle these problems, but I would rather figure out how to handle hierarchy appropriately in this situation.
Can someone please point me in to the right direction?
Thanks!
Tre
When you declare the custom post type, there is a parameter “rewrite” where you declare the slug for the post type. Change the slug to “media/videos”, and then visit your Settings > Permalinks page to update your rewrite rules.