[wp-hackers] Custom Post Redirect When Post Page is not root

[Andrew Nacin]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Aaron D. Campbell <aaron at xavisys.com>wrote:

> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16807
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> On 3/22/2011 10:03 AM, Alex Andrews wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have my Post Page set in options to 'site.com/news'. When I register
>> a custom post type I use "rewrite' =>  array( 'slug' =>
>> 'books','use_front' =>  false)" - as I want the urls to be
>> site.com/books. When I do this, it doesn't work - though
>> site.com/books/test redirects me to site.com/news/books/test.'
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>

While there are some issues with the implementation, as Aaron linked, your
issue is probably use_front versus with_front.