404 on pages after installing pods

Hi Kyle,

Unfortunately I’m not able to recreate this issue. Some things to consider:

• Do Pages come back if you disable the Pods plugin?
• Do Pages come back if you save Permalink structure under Settings > Permalinks?
• Did you by chance change Custom Rewrite Slug under Edit Pod > Advanced Options? For example, changing this value to / could cause a Custom Post Type to override conflicting URLs from Pages.

Yes
No
Yes!

I did have / set as custom rewrite. I thought this would only apply to the custom post type. If I remove this the pages work again. Thanks for the heads up.

Now to figure out how to make these two work nicely together…

Ah! Great! A lucky guess.

Having two post types with a root rewrite rule gets a bit tricky, because Rewrites are basically an array of regexes —?the first regex to match the URL wins. So if two post types (pages and another) get registered with / as the rewrite base, whichever is first will be chosen over the other.

Which rewrite matches can most easily be seen in the Debug This plugin menu: Debug This > Query > Rewrites, the order of which can be edited with the rewrite_rules_array filter.

But that doesn’t solve the problem of two post types having the same rewrite path. For that, pre_get_posts is a solution. In a case where both Pages and a Custom Post Type called “product” have a rewrite base of /, I was able to get both to load with the following code:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $q ) {
	if (
		$q->is_main_query()
		// If this installation is in a subdirectory,
		// or a subdirectory multisite, then below [1] would be [2]
		&& explode( '/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] )[1] === $q->query['name']
	) {
		$q->set(
			'post_type',
			[
				// Post Types with rewrites set to '/' (root) directory
				'page',
				'product',
			]
		);
	}
});

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Paul Clark.

Epic! I had to add another test to the if statement because it was throwing an undefined index error on homepage/categories etc.

This is what worked for me using a custom post type called review:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $q ) {
	if (
		$q->is_main_query()
		&& $q->is_single() 
		// If this installation is in a subdirectory,
		// or a subdirectory multisite, then below [1] would be [2]
		&& explode( '/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] )[1] === $q->query['name']
	) {
		$q->set(
			'post_type',
			[
				// Post Types with rewrites set to '/' (root) directory
				'page',
				'review',
			]
		);
	}
});

Thanks so much for your help with this.

Great!
Glad to hear you found the solution and thanks for sharing your fix!
Have a great day! ??