[wp-testers] Custom Post Types and Permalinks

[Andrew Nacin]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jason Bobich <jason_bobich at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug with 3.1 or if I'm just doing something
> incorrectly. I'm having issues with permalinks and custom post types in 3.1
> RC.
>
> I have a custom post type in my theme, and everything works fine in 3.0.x.
> However in all 3.1 RC versions so far, when I turn on Permalinks, all of my
> custom post type pages and taxonomy pages come up with a 404 not found.
>
> At first, I assumed it was just that my local dev database was just
> cluttered with stuff and who knows what was going on. However, I just
> installed a completely fresh installation of WordPress 3.1-RC4 on my live
> web server, activated my theme, turned permalinks on, created one of the
> custom post type items, and get the 404 error again when trying to view the
> post. I verified that standard pages and posts come up just fine (meaning
> permalinks work, just not with the custom post type).
>
> This is how I'm registering my custom post type:
>
> register_post_type('portfolio-item', array(
>    'label' => __('Portfolio Items', 'themeblvd'),
>    'singular_label' => __('Porfolio Item', 'themeblvd'),
>    'public' => true,
>    'show_ui' => true,
>    '_builtin' => false,
>    'capability_type' => 'page',
>    'hierarchical' => false,
>    'supports' => array('title', 'excerpt', 'editor', 'thumbnail',
> 'comments'),
>    'menu_icon' => get_bloginfo('template_url') .
> '/framework/theme_options/layout/images/icon_portfolio.png'
> ));
>
> Does anyone know if this is a bug? Or is something I could be doing
> incorrectly to why upgrading from 3.0.x to 3.1 RC would cause this to
> happen?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Jason
>

Have you tried flushing your rewrite rules? This needs to occur on plugin
activation, or by hitting the Settings > Permalink screen.