[wp-hackers] custom post types and child pages

[Joel Fisher]

See if this solves your issues.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-custom-post-type-archives/

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On Apr 30, 2011, at 3:46 PM, John Blackbourn <johnbillion+wp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 April 2011 20:13, Steve Taylor <steve at sltaylor.co.uk> wrote:
>> Say I have "projects" as a CPT. The archive page is defined as living here:
>> 
>> /research/projects/
>> 
>> Now, this is also an actual WP page, which I use to manage the intro
>> to the archive list etc. The URL for a project will of course be:
>> 
>> /research/projects/project-x/
>> 
>> But what if they have some other information about projects and they
>> want a standard WP page here:
>> 
>> /research/projects/info/
>> 
>> This gives a 404 - presumably because the rewrite rules signal that
>> we're looking for a project and there's no project with the slug
>> "info".
>> 
>> For now I've advised that they make anything planned as a child page
>> of /research/projects/ into a sibling page - not too much of a
>> sacrifice, and very easy. However, I wonder if there's a way to step
>> into the rewriting process and say, "If there's no CPTs found under a
>> CPT archive URL, look for child pages of the page that has the same
>> URL as the CPT archive"? If anyone's achieved this, do let me know.
> 
> I have the same situation. What I done was to add a filter to the
> rewrite rules array and add a couple of rewrite rules that match the
> page slugs [1]. It doesn't automatically work for all pages, but as
> it's a project for a client  know there will only ever be those two
> child pages. If we end up adding other pages then I'll just add their
> slugs to the array and regenerate the rewrite rules.
> 
> It would be neat to come up with an automated solution. It could
> probably be done fairly easily (I'm thinking along the lines of
> fetching all child pages of page 'foo' and adding them to the rewrite
> rules array and flushing the rules when new pages are added).
> 
>> CPT SINGLE POST VIEWS
>> 
>> The other issue is that the ideal situation for this project is to
>> have child pages of CPTs. So if there's a project at this URL:
>> 
>> /research/projects/project-x/
>> 
>> As well as the main page, there might be an extra page for this project:
>> 
>> /research/projects/project-x/extra/
>> 
>> Or more... The whole idea doesn't make sense to me in WP terms - that
>> child couldn't be a page with a CPT as a parent.
>> 
>> I've tried making the CPT hierarchical, but it doesn't seem to make
>> sense to have a project as a child of a project for what I'm talking
>> about above. Besides, the child page throws a 404 :-\
> 
> For some reason hierarchical CPTs don't get hierarchical URLs. This
> has always been the case and I'm not sure why.
> 
> At first thought allowing inter-mixing of CPTs and pages doesn't make
> a whole lot of sense, but I can see a need for it. I remember back in
> the old days (when rewrite rules were in .htaccess) we had a separate
> rewrite rule for every page on the site. I'm not for a moment
> suggesting we go back to that by defauly, but it would offer a
> solution for those who needed it.
> 
> [1] http://pastebin.com/rEu1BEkr
> 
> John
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