[wp-hackers] Best practice for archives of custom post types

[Michael Pretty]

You need to somehow pass in the 'post_type' query_var through the URL.  
You can do this by either directly adding post_type=my_post_type to the 
query string of url for a normal archive page, or adding a rewrite rule 
that turns example.com/my-post-type/ to example.com/?post_type=my_post_type.

If you want some examples of more complex handling for the archive 
pages, I just finished the beta version of a plugin today that 
automatically adds rewrite rules for custom post_types:  
http://vocecommunications.com/services/web-development/wordpress/plugins/cms-press/.  
Check out the add_rewrite_rules() method in 
/cp-custom-content/cp-custom-content-handler-base.php.

Michael Pretty
@prettyboymp

On 2/5/10 1:44 PM, Alex Dunae wrote:
> I'm really enjoying the custom post types in WP 3.0, but I can seem to
> find a sensible way to display an archive-style (or index) page for a
> specific post_type.  Is there a best practice for this without hacking
> around with the query?
>
> Alex
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