404 on taxonomy archive pages

  • I created a custom post type with a new taxonomy and i keep receiving “404-not found” errors. The taxonomy is called “specialists_expertise”.

    Any advice besides flushing your permalinks structure, which i tried like a million times with no results? :((

    If i set the permalinks on “default” (URL/?p=123) it works like a charm, but once i choose a custom permalink structure the 404 error comes up.

    I added new posts, created the taxonomy-specialists_expertise.php, but no luck.

    I found quite a lot of references on the net or here on the forums about this issue, but 90% of them were solved when the permalink structure was flushed.

    Please please pretty please, anyone has experienced this before? I’m going mad over here :((

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  • Thread Starter Azarea

    (@atreidex)

    I disabled all plugins – the problem persists on all the taxonomies, except for the regular wordpress “category”.

    Thread Starter Azarea

    (@atreidex)

    I added flush_rewrite_rules() to the custom post and taxonomy registration and removed the ‘with_front’ => false and the 404 error is gone now, thank god!

    What does this “with_front” means exactly? I don’t get it from the codex explanation… 'with_front' - allowing permalinks to be prepended with front base - defaults to true => what does it mean?

    Also, with the 404 error gone I’m the happiest man on Earth, but now another problem came out: no posts found for all taxonomies, even if they have posts. Any idea?

    Thread Starter Azarea

    (@atreidex)

    Ok, i found why was causing the last error too.

    When registering the custom post type for that taxonomy, i set the:

    'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'exclude_from_search' => true,
'query_var' => true

    But it seems that the exclude_from_search must be set to false.

    Note: If you want to show the posts’s list that are associated to taxonomy’s terms, you must set exclude_from_search to false (ie : for call site_domaine/?taxonomy_slug=term_slug or site_domaine/taxonomy_slug/term_slug). If you set to true, on the taxonomy page (ex: taxonomy.php) worpress will not find your posts and/or pagination will make 404 error…

    Thanks for bearing with me, talking here alone ?? After all, maybe my monologue will prove useful to other guys trying desperately to find why they get a 404 or their posts are not showing up.

    So, to summarize:
    1. check your with_front (not yet pretty sure what it does)
    2. add flush_rewrite_rules(); to your code (this one is a gem)
    3. check your exclude_from_search
    4. check your taxonomy-NAME.php file
    5. PRAY

    Best wishes,
    Ciprian

    Hey @atreidex, there’s no ne in this forum. I still have 5 pending questions and no one bother to answer. It’s a shame.

    I was looking for “what does with_front mean” in google, and end it up here in your topic. I suppose this is part f a big problem i’m having with my URLs.

    WHAT THE FFFFF does “with_front” mean!

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