[wp-testers] Custom Post Type with Meta Box - Permalink and Presentation Problems

[Jamie Oastler]

Solved. Working solution for reference:
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/98WywUCZ

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Jamie Oastler <jamie.oastler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Deanna gave an excellent example for #1 with a template_redirect action.
>
> For the second item, I have tried the following code which *should*
> work on two different servers and both result in a blank page display
> of the admin. Adding rewrite => false will have the post type menu,
> but not any permalinks.
>
> // Register custom post type - Manager
> register_post_type('manager', array(
>        'label' => __('Managers'),
>        'singular_label' => __('Manager'),
>        'public' => true,
>        'show_ui' => true, // UI in admin panel
>        'capability_type' => 'post',
>        'hierarchical' => false,
>        'query_var' => "manager", // This goes to the WP_Query schema
>        'supports' => array('title' ,'thumbnail' /*'excerpt', 'editor'
> ,'custom-fields'*/)
> ));
>
> Also at http://wordpress.pastebin.com/3dZJZnJw
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Jamie Oastler <jamie.oastler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Using the nightly beta build I have managed to make a great custom
>> post type following the instructions on
>> http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/04/how-to-create-meta-box-wordpress-post.html
>>
>> But now I am struggling with the presentation side of the big changes
>> for WP 3.0. If someone could please share some generic examples for
>> how to achieve the following it would be greatly appreciated. I've
>> hunted through most of google and had no success.
>>
>> 1) How to create the equivelent of a category-#.php based file for
>> custom post types and single.php for posts within.
>>
>> 2) How to have the permalink structure be the equivelent of
>> http://site.com/custom-data-type/post-slug
>> Anything I did to the rewrite parameter in register_post_type would
>> usually cause the admin console and site to not render.
>> Right now I get "http://site.com/?album=album-title
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jamie
>>
>