custom taxonomy archive permalink shows 404 error

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In my plugin I have a custom post type with a slug of ‘ready-to-wear’ and I have a custom taxonomy called ‘seasons’ associated with it.

The odd thing is that this url with query works:

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http://dev.catwalkyourself.com/ready-to-wear/?seasons=autumn-winter-2012-2013-en

but the same one with custom permalink doesn’t:

http://dev.catwalkyourself.com/ready-to-wear/seasons/autumn-winter-2012-2013-en

It throws a 404 error. You can try pasting the links yourself.

Here is my relevant plugin code:

Here is where the custom post type is registered

$post_types = array(); 

    $post_types['rtw'] =  $args = array(
        'labels' => array(
            'name' => __('RTW Collections'),
            'singular_name' => __('Ready to Wear Collection'),
            'add_new' => __('Add new RTW collection'),
            'add_new_item' => __('Add a new show to the RTW collection'),
            'edit_item' => __('Edit Collection'),
            'view_item' => __('View Collection'),
            'search_items' => __('Search Ready to Wear Collections'),
            'not_found' => __('No RTW Collections found'),
            'not_found_in_trash' => __('No RTW Collections found in trash')
        ),
        'query_var' => 'rtw_collections',
        'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'thumbnail', 'author', 'comments'),
        'has_archive' => true,
        'publicly_queryable' => true,
        'show_ui' => true,
        'taxonomies' => array('seasons','city'),
        'rewrite' => array(
            'slug' => 'ready-to-wear',
            'with_front' => false
        ),
        'public' => true,
        'menu_position' => 6
    );

Here is where the taxonomy is configured:

$taxonomies = array(); 

    $taxonomies['seasons'] = array(
        'query_var' => 'seasons',
        'rewrite' => array(
            'slug' => 'seasons',
            'with_front' => false
        ),
        'single_value' => true,
        'required' => true,
        'labels' => array(
            'name' => __('Seasons'),
            'singular_name' => __('Season'),
            'edit_item' => __('Edit Season'),
            'update_item' => __('Update Season'),
            'add_or_remove_items' => __('Add or remove seasons'),
            'new_item_name' => __('Add new Season'),
            'all_items' => __('All Seasons'),
            'search_items' => __('Search Seasons'),
            'popular_items' => __('Popular Seasons'),
            'separate_items_with_commas' => __('Separate Items with commas'),
            'choose_from_most_used' => __('Choose from most used Seasons')
        )
    );

and here is the call to register_taxonomy: 

foreach ($taxonomies as $taxonomy => $arr) {
            register_taxonomy($taxonomy, null, $arr);
        }

I have tried:

  • Flushing the permalinks repeatedly
  • Setting ‘with_front’ true and false repeatedly
  • add flush_rewrite action to my functions.php

Unfortunately, none of these work. Please help me out.

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  1. I solved this issue by making sure that the calls to register my taxonomies were placed before the calls to registering my custom post types. Weird but it works!

  2. In my case, WP route system understands it should serve the archive, but ends up serving index.php instead. I wrote this filter to serve the correct template file instead:

    add_filter('template_include', function ($template) {
    global $wp;

    switch ($wp->request) {
        case 'myCategory':
            return get_stylesheet_directory() . '/archive-my-category.php';
        case 'myOtherCategory':
            return get_stylesheet_directory() . '/archive-my-other-category.php';
        default:
            return $template;
    }
});