I have, with help from Milo managed to tweak the permalinks for my custom post type so that they include the year and month of the event. e.g.
mysite.com/events/2013/january/fishing-tripmysite.com/events/2013/may/picnicmysite.com/events/2013/may/visit-grandma
One small issue still evades me. If there is more than one event with the same name, WordPress appends a number to the end of the name even when the month is different and so there is no need for the name to be unique.
In other words I get
mysite.com/events/2013/january/fishing-tripmysite.com/events/2013/may/picnicmysite.com/events/2013/june/fishing-trip-2
when I want
mysite.com/events/2013/january/fishing-tripmysite.com/events/2013/may/picnicmysite.com/events/2013/june/fishing-trip
Is there a solution for this? I’ve got permalinks set to “postname” in permalink settings if this matters.
There is a plugin for wordpress which allows you to handle 404 errors and redirect to specific pages. So if wordpress calls your post
/events/2013/june/fishing-trip-2, you could go into the plugin and add a rule so that/events/2013/june/fishing-trippoints to/events/2013/june/fishing-trip-2.It’s not a perfect solution, as you’d have to manually enter each duplicate post name to the rewrite rules, and even then the links wordpress generates for that post would still have the
-2. You could write a function using preg_replace to then remove any -2 or -3 or whatever from the end of a link, but it’s a little messy