[wp-hackers] custom taxonomy list page?

[Jeff Rose]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:35 PM,
<wp-hackers-request at lists.automattic.com>wrote:

>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Joshua Sibelman <joshua.sibelman at gmail.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:50:00 -0800
> Subject: [wp-hackers] custom taxonomy list page?
> I've been searching Google for this to no avail.
>
> I'm working on a restaurant site, and I have a custom post type for dishes,
> like so:
>
> function dish_register() {
>    $labels = array(
>        'name'=>_x('Dishes', 'post type general name'),
>        'singular_name'=>_x('Dish', 'post type singular name'),
>        'add_new'=>_x('Add New', 'dish'),
>        'add_new_item'=>__('Add New Dish'),
>        'edit_item'=>__('Edit Dish'),
>        'new_item'=>__('New Dish'),
>        'view_item'=>__('View Dish'),
>        'search_items'=>__('Search Dishes'),
>        'not_found'=>__('No Dishes Found'),
>        'not_found_in_trash'=>__('No dishes found in Trash'),
>        'parent_item_colon'=>''
>    );
>
>    $args = array(
>        'labels'=> $labels,
>        'public'=> true,
>        'publicly_queryable'=>true,
>        'show_ui'=>true,
>        'show_in_nav_menus'=>true,
>        'query_var'=>'dish',
>        'rewrite'=>true,
>        'capability_type'=>'post',
>        'hierarchicial'=>false,
>        'menu_position'=>5,
>        'supports'=>array(
>            'title',
>            'editor',
>            'thumbnail',
>            'excerpt',
>            'custom-fields',
>            'revisions'
>        )
>    );
>
>    register_post_type('dish', $args);
> }
>
> An example of one of the custom taxonomies I want to use is this:
>
> register_taxonomy('Main Ingredient', array('dish'), array(
>    'hierarchical' => true,
>    'label' => 'Main Ingredient',
>    'singular_label' => 'Main Ingredient',
>    'query_var'=>true,
>    'rewrite' => true)
> );
>
>
> The custom taxonomies are working fine in the admin, and I can go to
> http://myurl.com/main-ingredient/pork and see a list of all dishes with
> pork in them.
>
> What I'm wanting to do is be able to hit http://myurl.com/main-ingredientand get a list of all the various main-ingredient values.
>
> I found this reference, which is exactly what I'm trying to do:
>
> http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/4663/custom-taxonomy-listing-page-when-no-term-set-all-terms
>
> But the solution is not working for me - I'm still getting a 404 when going
> to http://myurl.com/main-ingredient
>
> Any suggestions on how best to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
> WordPress should handle this automatically. I'm doing much the same thing
and I think this is the key:

        'rewrite' => array(
            'slug' => 'main-ingredient'
        )

Add that to your taxonomy definition, visit the permalinks and re-save them.

This is working for me on a plugin I'm developing.