[wp-testers] Custom Post Type and Taxonomy Permalinks Broken?

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

What's your .htaccess / web.config like ?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Elkin" <scott at mcintoshmarketing.com>
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Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Custom Post Type and Taxonomy Permalinks Broken?


> you're preaching to the choir here - i just cant get it to stop 404'ing.
>
> Scott Elkin
> Chief Technology Officer
> McIntosh Marketing
>
> On May 23, 2010, at 8:00 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) wrote:
>
> %postname%
>  A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on Edit 
> Post/Page panel). So "This Is A Great Post!" becomes this-is-a-great-post 
> in the URI (see Using only %postname%). Starting Permalinks with 
> %postname% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons..
>
> It also  says that for 3 other things going down the list.
>
> I highly recommend you put something other then /%postname%/  the chance 
> for unique identifying slugs is greatly reduced at that point.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Elkin" 
> <scott at mcintoshmarketing.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 7:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Custom Post Type and Taxonomy Permalinks Broken?
>
>
>> I am referencing:
>>
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
>>
>> %category%
>> A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit 
>> Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in 
>> the URI. Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended 
>> for performance reasons.
>>
>>
>> Scott Elkin
>> Chief Technology Officer
>> McIntosh Marketing
>>
>> On May 23, 2010, at 7:33 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) wrote:
>>
>> Not recommended?  It's moreso not recommended to just have /%postname%/ 
>> the deeper you get in seperate identifiers for the urlrewrite the better.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Elkin" 
>> <scott at mcintoshmarketing.com>
>> To: <wp-testers at lists.automattic.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 1:15 PM
>> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Custom Post Type and Taxonomy Permalinks 
>> Broken?
>>
>>
>>> I got it to work with the custom permalink "/%postname%/.
>>>
>>> /%category%/%postname%/ (which isn't recommended anyway) 404's.
>>>
>>> Scott Elkin
>>> Chief Technology Officer
>>> McIntosh Marketing
>>>
>>> On May 23, 2010, at 3:03 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah that solved mine as well.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Morrison" 
>>> <info at danstechstop.com>
>>> To: <wp-testers at lists.automattic.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 3:01 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Custom Post Type and Taxonomy Permalinks 
>>> Broken?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Have you tried Settings > Permalinks > Save yet? That usually solves my 
>>>> 404
>>>> issues with custom post types.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:05, Dion Hulse (dd32) 
>>>> <wordpress at dd32.id.au>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can you post some code which you're using?
>>>>>
>>>>> Whilst you shouldnt be having that issue, To me, it sounds like you're
>>>>> registering something in the wrong order, or set a arguement to 
>>>>> something
>>>>> that it shouldnt be.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 22 May 2010 04:14:25 +1000, Scott Elkin <
>>>>> scott at mcintoshmarketing.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I posted this in the forum, but didn't get an answer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I create a custom post type "movies" with custom taxonomies 
>>>>>> "directors"
>>>>>> and "actors", this is what I get using the default Permalink 
>>>>>> structure:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (when I add a movie "clerks")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /?movies=clerks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If i click on the "directors" taxonomy from that page:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /?directors=kevin-smith
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I click on the "actors" taxonomy from the movie page:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /?actors=jason-mewes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I change Permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/  I get:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /movies/kevin-smith/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and then just
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /kevin-smith/
>>>>>> /jason-mewes/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For director and actor respectively.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of these just 404.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What am I doing wrong here? How can I fix the actors and directors
>>>>>> permalinks to show:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /directors/kevin-smith/
>>>>>> /actors/jason-mewes/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> AND have them not 404?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Scott
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>>>>>
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