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

[Otto]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Michael Pretty <mpretty at voceconnect.com> wrote:
> 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 ...

No, post_type isn't one of the public_query_vars, so you can't add it
to a URL without special code to allow it. You basically do this by
adding a filter to the 'query_vars'.

On the other hand, if you simply use register_post_type() to register
your new type, then this sort of thing gets all taken care of for you.
query vars, rewrites, permastructs, everything.

-Otto
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