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I’m pret­ty sure most of this is already in core — end­points, body/post class­es, and single-$post_type.php templates.

Some of the endpoint/rewrite stuff is indeed unfin­ished. I’d like to see enhance­ments to end­point sup­port how­ev­er: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12779.

I’m glad you’ve warned that gen­er­at­ing rewrite rules are expen­sive. They’re best left to an acti­va­tion hook for sure.

I stum­bled here via google. The rewrite rules for Cus­tom Posts have got me in a fren­zy today. Have you looked into how you would add the cat­e­go­ry (i.e. cus­tom tax­on­o­my) into the url? 

(Real­ly impres­sive work, by the way)

I’ve down­loaded the helper but how do I include it? I have past­ed it into the top of the functions.php and then at the bot­tom, below the post_type def­i­n­i­tion I have includ­ed the sd_register_post_type( ‘type­name’ );

What do I need to have in the perma­links structure?

With­out using the helper, leav­ing the perma­link struc­ture on default the web­site works per­fect. But if I change the perma­links to my stan­dard “/%category%/%postname” I get page not found!

Thanks 🙂

Thanks for the reply Matt. With­out the helper the sin­gle post pages work fine http://yourdomain.com/posttype/slug, with any perma­links structure.

I only run into a prob­lem when I want to go to http://yourdomain.com/posttype/ which would be a list­ing page for all posts with­in that post type. That works fine with Default perma­link struc­ture but as soon as I change it to a cus­tom one, I get “Not Found” regard­less of includ­ing your helper or not.

Is this a sep­a­rate prob­lem that needs look­ing into as I’m yet to find a work­ing solution.

Read­ing through this, it seems it will do every­thing that I want it to!!

Try­ing it though, does­n’t do what I expect. I have includ­ed your code and reg­is­tered a post type and all works fine.

I cre­at­ed new one called ‘per­sons’ using:

sd_register_post_type(‘person’);

which works fine. Sooo sim­ple to do. Thank you! I have a cus­tom perma­link of:

/%category%/%postname%/

and added a new post in ‘per­son’ called ‘test’ gives me URL of:

mywebsite.com/person/test/

Great, also loads up the cus­tom tem­plate from /person/single.php. How­ev­er, going to:

mywebsite.com/person/

Gives me a 404, should that give me a ‘land­ing’ page call­ing in /person/index.php.

Am I not under­stand­ing this right?

Thanks Tom,

Have got a test install of word­press so I just cleared the database.

Func­tions file already sets up cus­tom post type of ‘per­son’ so that bit is done. Went in and updat­ed perma­links. Then went and added con­tent into ‘per­son’ cus­tom post type.

When view­ing, the actu­al page works (/person/test/) but /person/ still gives 404. Tried updat­ing perma­links again and no joy.

What steps did you take to get it to work Tom?

Some more doc­u­men­ta­tion on this would be amaz­ing because it says it will do all I need — If only I could get it to work lol.

Quick helper for the oth­ers here strug­gling with this. 

After you have includ­ed Tom’s helper func­tions, and have added the appro­pri­ate func­tions to reg­is­ter your post types with his helper class –>

If you intend to have an archive type page just for your cus­tom post types and have cre­at­ed the $custom_post_type_name.php file, you still need to run a query like:
•query_posts(‘post_type=$custom_post_type&posts_per_page=-1’)•

pri­or to your loop in your $custom_post_type_name.php file to bring in the posts. They won’t just auto­mat­i­cal­ly show up there. You will get a 404 not found with­out this.

I think this is where a cou­ple peo­ple are get­ting con­fused, so, thought I would men­tion it.

Oh my good­ness, I’m so sor­ry. My face is all red. And yes, I’m using 3.0, but, I think I have just real­ized what is hap­pen­ing, so, sor­ry for the attempt to be help­ful, I failed mis­er­ably at that. 

I am using twen­ty ten as a par­ent theme and build­ing my theme as a child of it.

It seems that the tem­plate that is being pulled for my single-$custom_post_type.php is the 404 tem­plate from the twen­ty-ten theme. I’m not sure why, but, assum­ing it has some­thing to do with the locate_template func­tion as this was work­ing fine before.

I am going to assume that that is prob­a­bly the rea­son I was get­ting the 404 on my $custom_post_type.php tem­plate as well, and only got results when I put the query in there.

Any ideas?

Hang on a sec, you real­ize that I am reg­is­ter­ing the cus­tom post types via CMS Press, and not using the register_post_type action from the helper func­tion right? 

These post types were reg­is­tered long ago and work­ing per­fect­ly with the “fake” archive and WP default single-lesson.php templates.

I’m just try­ing to get a prop­er “archive” page of cus­tom post types, it’s the only thing that is miss­ing, so, from what I under­stand I just need a rewrite of ?post_type= and a redi­rect to /lessons of any query var that has the post type, but, not the sin­gle name.

Man, I sure wish that dis­cus­sion in trac about includ­ing this in core had tak­en a dif­fer­ent turn. I real­ly think leav­ing this out is going to open a can of worms for every­one who gets near it.

Great to learn from though 😉

I wrote all of my cus­tom post type args myself, and then when I decid­ed to use CMS Press for it’s GUI et al, I actu­al­ly con­struct­ed the args in that code to match the way that I want­ed them to be, as well as updat­ed them, as they were not quite up to par with what was cur­rent in trac for options in the sup­port array. 

The only thing I don’t under­stand is the rewrite stuff.

So, if you think it might help myself or any­one else to get this cleared up, ask away please. I’ll look up and test what­ev­er is nec­es­sary to get this solved~

Okay, final­ly, so chang­ing the helper func­tion to look for a post_types.php instead of a post_type.php tem­plate worked beau­ti­ful­ly, and this is the last you’ll hear from me. Hope­ful­ly my ram­blings will come in handy for some­one. I now have work­ing sin­gle cus­tom post type pages as well as a cus­tom post type archive.

Thanks Tom! … Just kid­ding, Thanks Matt!!!!

Actu­al­ly, just a heads up… some­one has already writ­ten a Cus­tom Meta Type sys­tem over at: http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/05/howto-meta-box-wordpress.html

I’m using this and that togeth­er and I now have the abil­i­ty to make Word­Press my very own cus­tom CMS.

Thanks!

I’m a lit­tle stuck on this one.

I start­ed by copy­ing all the includ­ed code into my theme functions.php file.

Below that I add the following:

add_action('init', 'my_custom_init1');
function my_custom_init1() {
    $args_array = array(
        'label' => __('Albums'),
        'singular_label' => __('Album'),
        'public' => true,
        'show_ui' => true,
        'capability_type' => 'page',
        'hierarchical' => false,
        'rewrite' => true,
        'supports' => array('title', 'thumbnail')
        );

    sd_register_post_type( 'albums' , $args_array );
}

Prob­lem is I am not get­ting albums to show up in my admin inter­face. If I get rid of the sd_ then it works.

Must be doing some­thing real­ly stu­pid here.

hi matt, great class.

btw, is pos­si­ble to make post_type archive

eg: wp/post_type/2010/05/14/my_post

how to make the cor­rect rule 😛